Urgent help needed!!!!

[chris68nufc]

I want to play some music through my laptop via my Amp. Will i be able to just plug into the speaker output or is there a better way??
Im entertainments manager for this christmas. Quick. Help!!

[Huckster522]

I play all my music from my laptop via my home cinema system, just connect from headphone socket to phono left and right input and all works fine.

[Titch]

You'll need a Y connection, headphone to phonos.. sometimes if both the laptop and the amp are plugged in you can get a buzzing sound, this is caused by creating a loop but can be eliminated using a "ground loop isolator" such as This one

You might not get a buzzing sound, I know I do, I run my laptop through a minidisc walkman before it gets to the amp to get rid of the interference. But my laptop was stupidly quiet, so I was using the walkman to boost the sound, it was only later i found it buzzed without it.. so check first, else you'll look a tit if it buzzes on stage and theres nothing you can do about it (the sound goes away if you unplug the laptop)

[deepdale11]

Yeah, you just need a mini jack to phono leads and plug it into aux or line in on your amp......you can't plug in directly into your speakers unless your amp is build in to them??

[Big G]

or you could be really posh and get one of these

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB...press-AirTunes

then just wirelessly broadcast your tunes to whatever room you want

[chris68nufc]

Looks a good piece of kit the Mac one. Right, will i be able to get a lead from the Mac bit of kit straight into a Pioneer AV box for the sound to come out of the tv speakers.
Im assuming if i get a lead into the sound box on the tv then i will be able to play music from wherever can pick up the wireless signal??

[petvalqui]

Originally Posted by chris68nufc

Looks a good piece of kit the Mac one. Right, will i be able to get a lead from the Mac bit of kit straight into a Pioneer AV box for the sound to come out of the tv speakers.
Im assuming if i get a lead into the sound box on the tv then i will be able to play music from wherever can pick up the wireless signal??

Yeah, you just need a mini jack to phono leads and plug it into aux or line in on your amp......you can't plug in directly into your speakers unless your amp is build in to them??

[chris68nufc]

Can i play tunes other than from itunes as the mac bit of kit suggests. Its for my uncle and hes tight as a fishes arse so dont want to spend money if it wont do what we want.

[Mad-Wolfie]

A better solution is to get yourself a mixer. Something simple such as Behringer UB502 - they cost about £30 (do a google for a local DJ shop or see if Maplins have any), run this between the laptop & the amp & this should clean up the sound & give you more control. run the amp on full & control the volume from the mixing desk running the master output on half power & setting the gain so the lights on the mixer just go into the red. Ideally you want an external USB soundcard on your laptop, but i've done charity gigs in large halls off a laptop into one of these mixers & out into a 6000w system as background music for a band.

Also another point if playing MP3's through an amplified system make sure the MP3's are at least 192kpbs - the higher the better, running MP3's at 128kbps sounds more compressed - it's fine on a ipod through headphones & will sound perfectly OK, but on a larger, loud system it will sound lousy when amplified!

Another solution is to do away with the laptop.. Go to tesco, buy one of the £15 DVD players - so long as it plays MP3's.. use it like a regular CD player. - DVD players have a volume control usually on the remote, so you can also use it with/without a mixer. Burn a CD of MP3's in data mode with your MP3's & away you go, again i've done this in the past on large sound systems & it works well, OK it's not 100% quality but so long as the MP3's are of a good quality who's going to know?

You could also get a program such as Mixmeister & create a medley with no gaps for the CD or run it straight from the laptop.

[bert digler]

if you have an xbox run it through the laptop via the xbox360

[Titch]

or just save a whole load of hassle and book me

[welsh man]

Originally Posted by Big G

or you could be really posh and get one of these

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB...press-AirTunes

then just wirelessly broadcast your tunes to whatever room you want

he said that he needed it urgently

[Big G]

if 4 days ago was christmas day then I'm pretty sure he's out of luck either way.

[kitesforsale]

Originally Posted by Mad-Wolfie

A better solution is to get yourself a mixer. Something simple such as Behringer UB502 - they cost about £30 (do a google for a local DJ shop or see if Maplins have any), run this between the laptop & the amp & this should clean up the sound & give you more control. run the amp on full & control the volume from the mixing desk running the master output on half power & setting the gain so the lights on the mixer just go into the red. Ideally you want an external USB soundcard on your laptop, but i've done charity gigs in large halls off a laptop into one of these mixers & out into a 6000w system as background music for a band.

Also another point if playing MP3's through an amplified system make sure the MP3's are at least 192kpbs - the higher the better, running MP3's at 128kbps sounds more compressed - it's fine on a ipod through headphones & will sound perfectly OK, but on a larger, loud system it will sound lousy when amplified!

Another solution is to do away with the laptop.. Go to tesco, buy one of the £15 DVD players - so long as it plays MP3's.. use it like a regular CD player. - DVD players have a volume control usually on the remote, so you can also use it with/without a mixer. Burn a CD of MP3's in data mode with your MP3's & away you go, again i've done this in the past on large sound systems & it works well, OK it's not 100% quality but so long as the MP3's are of a good quality who's going to know?

You could also get a program such as Mixmeister & create a medley with no gaps for the CD or run it straight from the laptop.

^^ good point. Glad I joined this forum already

[chrispattinson]

Chris.. have you got a PS3 handy, Ive got a my PS3 as my wireless interface to all TVs in the house and cinema systems, It works really well as it accesses my laptop HD or my PC HD for music.

Ive got some HDMI digital splitters you could lend.