Zune? Ipod? Sansa?

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I see a few of you mentioned using an mp3 player for ceremonies
do you just plug your player into powered speakers?
I have a dual CD deck with an amp and a mixer and speakers...
and it seems to me I am lugging around too much gear for a ceremony system
 
I use a Numark Mix-2 at the moment with CD's. I would like to plug an MP3 player into the Mix-2. My buddy plugs his iPod directly into his powered speaker along with a mic if needed. His powered speaker also has a built-in CD player; I can't remember the brand but it wasn't cheap. Carvin makes a powered speaker that has a nice built-in mixer, effects too! Quite a few of the newer active speakers also have RCA inputs.
 
Ausumm said:
I see a few of you mentioned using an mp3 player for ceremonies
do you just plug your player into powered speakers?
I have a dual CD deck with an amp and a mixer and speakers...
and it seems to me I am lugging around too much gear for a ceremony system
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yep. Just did one a few weeks ago. simply had the ipod plugged directly into the bose L1 compact. The compact has 1/8 inputs and rca inputs. They had some songs they wanted played while people where coming in, a special song for mothers and bride's maids, and a special song for the bride. Then a recessional song. a very simply project for an ipod.
 
I plug my Blackberry or iPod into a powered speaker for ceremonies. Stand in one hand, speaker in the other and iPod in pocket. Makes ceremonies a snap.

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Ausumm, you plug an mp3 player, Ipod, Zune etc. into the mixer the same way you would plug a laptop into the mixer. 1/8" jack plugs into the headphone jack of the mp3 player and then out to RCA or 1/4" jacks into the mixer. These cables are on ebay at Radio Shack, NLFX, Guitar Center etc. Plug into a single stero channel or into two separate mono channels.
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that you could plug a sound card in between the laptop and the mixer. I was thinking more about the mp3 player to the mixer. My Dell laptop actually has decent sound and I could use it without an external sound card in a pinch. My Soundblaster 3DFX sounds better and the Behringer UCA202 works just fine too. I also have a built in soundcard in my Alesis mixer that plugs into the USB port on the laptop, but I don't use it.
 
The Wizard Of OZ said:
Sorry, I forgot to mention that you could plug a sound card in between the laptop and the mixer. I was thinking more about the mp3 player to the mixer. My Dell laptop actually has decent sound and I could use it without an external sound card in a pinch. My Soundblaster 3DFX sounds better and the Behringer UCA202 works just fine too. I also have a built in soundcard in my Alesis mixer that plugs into the USB port on the laptop, but I don't use it.
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I already have the powered speakers, which I only have on hand as a back up
and I already have a cable I think would work.
wanted to avoid a mixer altogether and lighten the load

thanks everyone for your responses and ideas!
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No problemo. With powered speakers you do everything the same, you just take the signal to a stero or mono line in jack on the back of the speaker the same way you would do with a CD deck or laptop. There is even a dual RCA to mono combiner jack, it even comes in stereo.
 
My Ipod is always my backup!
 
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