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Post subject: Using my Mustang III v2 as an audio interface.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 12:33 pm
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I am looking into linking up remotely with my practice group while I'm away for a few months. Looking into a service called Jam-Kazam. Jam-Kazam recommends feeding my guitar, mic and headsets through an audio interface then into my computer. One of the recommended interfaces was the Steinberg CI-1, about $100.00 to buy. I'm wondering if my Mustang amp would do the same thing. I can plug in my guitar, then the mic into the Aux jack, my headset into the phones jack, them use the USB jack to feed all that to the computer. Does anyone have any experience with Jam-Kazam, or used their Mustang as an audio interface?
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Post subject: Re: Using my Mustang III v2 as an audio interface.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 3:42 pm
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The input to the AUX socket is not output through the USB port. The AUX audio is only sent to the headphones and the amp's own speaker. Also, you can't send audio back to the amp from the computer over USB. So you can't use the headphones socket on the amp to listen to USB sound coming from the PC. (What you can do is connect the line-out on your PC to the aux-in on your amp to achieve this - but you want the aux-in for something else...)

What you could do is connect your guitar to the Mustang and use its USB output direct to a USB socket on your computer (with a suitable ASIO driver on your computer). Then connect your microphone and headphones directly to your computer soundcard's mic-in (or line-in) and phones-out (or line-out) sockets.

So you don't need to buy anything for the basic connectivity. However, one issue you may have is different lag between the (USB) guitar input and the (analogue) microphone input. You'd still have lag with an audio interface, but I suppose at least all the inputs would have the same lag. But then if you're doing the whole thing 'remotely' over a network, there's going to be a lot more lag in that than in your (local) audio connections.

If it were me, I'd at least try the above and see whether it's satisfactory before spending money on any other equipment. There are many suggestions, in this forum and elsewhere, on how to minimise lag by changing software buffer settings and other parameters in your DAW software etc.


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Post subject: Re: Using my Mustang III v2 as an audio interface.
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 7:09 am
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I just started looking at jaz-Kazam myself. Tough to coordinate practice time and it would be nice to get some time together over the Internet.
I'm using a presonus firebox, discontinued hardware, runs on FireWire connection.
It's a battle to keep it running. Get conflicts with other hardware/software.
Audials tunebite takes over sound whenever I start it, then I have to reconfigure to get firebox back...love more feedback on jaz-kazam


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Post subject: Re: Using my Mustang III v2 as an audio interface.
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:06 pm
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You will need a true audio interface to make it work. I use a Lexicon Alpha $60 at amazon. So below is my setup:

Guitar > Mustang I v2 > Headphone jack out to Inpute on Lexicon > usb into PC for jamkazam.

This setup gets me really low latency and lets me still use fuse software to modify presets and has XLR input on lexicon for a mic which you really want to have for jamkazam.


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