But going through a guitar amp? I would think that's going to sound pretty bad unless you do some sort of separate signal path for it with its own clean preamp and avoiding the tone stack.
It sure isn't perfect, but maybe good enough, and much better than the smart phone held to the PA mic. It would be easy to add a little fixed EQ between the bluetooth receiver and the guitar preamp, to bring up the low end. Just a thought.
the Bluetooth audio codec I've read about isn't even reliably 16/44 - uses loseless compression if the entropy is low enough but has to fall back to lossy compression with complex enough audio
Interesting. I'll be curious to see how that works out. It might be kinda cool for playing along with songs as well.
If you are happy with the way you do it, great. I am sure Bluetooth systems work fine, but adding them to commercial guitar amps seems far fetched, at least to me,. I don't think the alternative is holding a phone to a mic. I'd imagine that going to best buy for the particular cord only has to happen once, and then you have one. A direct connection will sound much better.
I could see it on a low wattage practice amp as a way to play music from your phone to practice along to. I think that would be a cool feature.
Edit: Thinking it over, a decent tube amp will long outlive Bluetooth as a technology.
Edit: Thinking it over, a decent tube amp will long outlive Bluetooth as a technology.
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Why not just stick a lead from the phones headphone socket to the CD input on the amp?. Much better reliability than messing about with BT 😀
We actually use bluetooth a lot around our home and cars. I find it way more convenient than cables. I have a bluetooth adapter in my car. I have one hooked to speakers in our bedroom, bathroom and my office. I walk into a room and I can play music from my phone without fiddling with any cables. Bluetooth definitely has some advantages. But it will be a long dead technology while the amp is still around years from now, so that's a big down-side.
The argument to just use a cord going into the PA system makes sense, but we didn't have the right cord, we already had dozens of cords all over the place, and we didn't want a big distraction. Bluetooth would have worked well in our situation. I wouldn't be surprised if Bluetooth sticks around for many years. The one I tried for about $12 at Parts Express sounded real good.
If you try to market a new guitar amp, you better have some kind of reason why it's more desirable than the competition.
If you try to market a new guitar amp, you better have some kind of reason why it's more desirable than the competition.
There are already MIDI controllers and wireless guitar synths in the market place that use "Bluetooth". I don't know if they are fully Bluetooth standards compliant, but they use Bluetooth chipsets for the RF link.
Two that come to mind are the Fishman Triple Play and the Livid Instruments Guitar Wing.
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Two that come to mind are the Fishman Triple Play and the Livid Instruments Guitar Wing.
Fishman Transducers, Inc.
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