I'm seeing the sweet Bluetooth speaker as an amazing holiday markdown at Monoprice, and imagining a wireless practice amp. Is that stupid or brilliant?
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I used to run the sound board at church. They had some cheap Nady wireless mics that were real bad with interference problems with other equipment, but the more expensive brand wireless mics worked well. Would be interesting to see how well this works.
there are a ton of headphone-jack Bluetooth transmitters for your phone and mp3 players, and they are cheap, and a 1/4in to 3.5mm adapter is also cheap.
a while ago i tried making fm transmitters fit inside the guitar to play through any am/fm radio , they worked , you could use any radio , even in cars , just by finding the freq . but sound quality was not there , i tried beefing them up a bit , and fried about 13 units . then i made a large model in a separate box ,, only to find out china has kits and units (radio stations ) about a 3rd of what it cost me to make ..lol . not to mention local broadcasting regulations here . so it made cords look cooler again ;-)
There are plenty of wireless guitar products but unfortunately bluetooth is not entirely practical because it's cost and power consumption would be considerable
Bluetooth is best understood as a wireless replacement for USB connections, designed for devices which are communicating with a digital (binary) signal, where a guitar signal at its most basic implementation is dependant on variable voltage. So you would need analog -> digital audio conversion in addition to wireless broadcasting.
If you were to build one it would probably be wisest to put it in a small shielded box which tapes to the strap and plugs into the guitar, just like most existing guitar wireless broadcasting units, in order to make battery replacement more practical, enable you to fall back to using a cable in the event of failure or interference, and to use multiple instruments with the one unit.
Best :)
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I used to run the sound board at church. They had some cheap Nady wireless mics that were real bad with interference problems with other equipment, but the more expensive brand wireless mics worked well. Would be interesting to see how well this works.
there are a ton of headphone-jack Bluetooth transmitters for your phone and mp3 players, and they are cheap, and a 1/4in to 3.5mm adapter is also cheap.
Great, another thing for AT&T to take over.
How would you stop unwanted calls while playing?
I'd be afraid that I'd get put on the "Do Not Play List".
a while ago i tried making fm transmitters fit inside the guitar to play through any am/fm radio , they worked , you could use any radio , even in cars , just by finding the freq . but sound quality was not there , i tried beefing them up a bit , and fried about 13 units . then i made a large model in a separate box ,, only to find out china has kits and units (radio stations ) about a 3rd of what it cost me to make ..lol . not to mention local broadcasting regulations here . so it made cords look cooler again ;-)
Bluetooth is best understood as a wireless replacement for USB connections, designed for devices which are communicating with a digital (binary) signal, where a guitar signal at its most basic implementation is dependant on variable voltage. So you would need analog -> digital audio conversion in addition to wireless broadcasting.
If you were to build one it would probably be wisest to put it in a small shielded box which tapes to the strap and plugs into the guitar, just like most existing guitar wireless broadcasting units, in order to make battery replacement more practical, enable you to fall back to using a cable in the event of failure or interference, and to use multiple instruments with the one unit.
Best :)