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Guess I need to watch a video on click tracks 😊

What does di box do and is it necessary ?

Someone help me out please. When I plug the splitter cable in, the clicks go into the mixer board, and the tracks go into the DI box, so the TRS male part of this splitter cable goes nowhere? Is that it? And also I don’t understand how this splitter cable would split the channels… I don’t have a studio engineer and I would have to do that myself. And another thing… if I am using a phone to play the tracks, would it need a special app? Or just like the mp3 file of the tracks? And how would I make the file in my phone play in the PA system? I am so sorry… watching the video and reading the comments it seems like everything is so obvious already… but I just don’t get these things I just said. If someone with patience could elabore to me… thanks so much.

Does anyone know how I can put a talk back mic into that setup??

Thanks for that!!! 😉🫵🏾👍🏾😎

Hi budd. How will you be able to hear the backing track if it just only goes to the FOH?

could you use an R8 8 Track as a mixer?

Can I run it direct through soundboard without the Di box?

Don't forget to turn your phone on airplane mode before using it to run tracks. Phone calls and texts don't help during gigs.

How would all members connect their in ear headphones to the mixer?

Do another vid of how yall sound with this setup of yours. Very interested

Our drummer used a click to his monitor or right headphone and the track to left headphone, and we had the track in our monitors.

I've actually gone an purchased this exact set up however I'm getting crackling through my click channel coming through the mixer (the backing track is clear though) did you experience this too?

Great vid Matt awesome info.

Just play your iphone and lay down on a cot and go to sleep on stage. What a joke. Beyond foolish.

Is there any timing issues with the click to the headphones and the master going to the house?

How do you run backing tracks on your phone?

Great video but i have a question. How do you run your click at the same time as the backing track but not have the click come through the House monitors. Do you have a click track panned to the left or right and the opposite for the backing track? I think i've answered my own question, but yeah.

really helpful thanks

VERY good!👍

Man this is one of those things that seems so obvious but for some reason I still needed to see it all laid out and demonstrated, which you executed perfectly. Thanks man!

Do you give yourself 4clicks at the start or how does that work? Your bandmates cant hear the click correct? thx

Where does the click come from?

Hi. Just out of curiosity, why would u use di box, while u can just plug a cable into house mixer direct from your mixer? Is it necessary to use di box?

for this to work would the track have to be recorded in stereo? I'm wondering how the click is separated from the effects

I use Mixet on an older iPad running the 3.5mm output through a 1/4 splitter into my DI box which has dual passthroughs that both go into my mixer. I get both the click (L) and tracks (R) in my in-ears. I also take an XLR line, which is intended for the stage monitor, into my mic input on my mixer when I'm on stage. This gives me EVERYTHING in my ears; click , tracks, and stage mix. I can then control the volume and panning of each input individually and don't go deaf.

This is a great idea! I am being totally dumb....🙃 where is the click coming from? from the songs on your phone?

great job! thx

Why exactly do you need the DI box?

How can you play backing tracks and guitar through the same amplifier with out getting the backing tracks all distorted? Do you really need to take 2 amplifiers on a busking gig like that?

How would you manage it with this setup, if you want to have the live singer's voice or any other live instrument (bass, gtr) into your in ear monitors during the gig?

Doesn't this mess up the stereo imaging of the tracks if your tracks are going to the PA in mono?

Right to the point; good stuff.

But where is your click coming from?

Massive help, we've been using samples for a while now on a trigger pad and moving in to bigger arrangements in the back now which the trigger can't handle. This is super straight forward thanks dude!!

so how did u take it off your phone? was that splitter cable a 1/8" to the black and red 1/4"s? and then plug that into the mixer? what is a speaker cable - where did you use it in this set up?

I needed to hear a drum cover of this song.. you did not disappoint!

The tracks on your phone, are those wave and MP3’s with the click panned in one side and the live tracks in the other? Otherwise, how do you split the tracks before they enter your mixer?

I didnt realize it was this simple tbh

Do you need the DI box even with a mixer and PA?

Fucking legit my guy

How would you be able to also hear the other instruments that are going to the front of house?

I've got a little problem. We have some instruments and effects on our backing tracks, which should pan from left to right. The problem is, that i panned the whole stereo track to one side, as you said, so we only hear the left signal, which means if an instrument is automated to pan from left to right, we just hear it mono getting more quiet or louder. Is there any possible way to run a stereo backing track or does this method only work mono to hear every signal?

Du bist offensichtlich ein großartiger Drummer und hast einen guten Musikgeschmack. Macht Spaß, dir beim Trommeln zuzusehen. 😎👌🤘

This is so smart!

Good job, love it!

Just ordered everything from your list man. My bands been growing quick but i never realized how responsible i am as the drummer to getting us all sounding perfect on stage. This setup will make things perfect

Thank you Matt for this video. Very simple and cost effective. Exactly what I needed. Take care!

Thanks a TON for this. My band State V has been trying to figure out the best way to run Backing Tracks

omg thank you. finally someone explains it for the average guy! returning to gigging after 10 years and I had no idea how this stuff was done. thanks