Setting up a live backing track

[outbreak525]

Hey guys I'm not 100% sure if this topic should go here but please excuse me I am a noob

Anyway that aside, i need some advice. I am producing my first ever EP and from a producer's perspective how does one set up a backing track for a live set? By this i mean like sending a metronome to the drummer while adjacent fx are going through the PA. I understand that concept as i've heard it from both I Am Abomination and Attack Attack. Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[abigor731]

if the fx are in mono you can run a stereo track from an mp3 player one side metronome and one side fx

otherwise you have to use a laptop with an interface with more output channels, load all the tracks into your DAW, and route them to the individual output channels

 

[outbreak525]

They will most likely be in mono. The problem is getting one side to go to the drummer and the other to the PA. Will i need a special kind of wire for this?

 

[DanLights]

Not too hard, I use my Iphone with all my backing tracks in stereo as said before, I use a cable that has the 1/8" jack for the Iphone on one side and stereo RCA on the other to separate the two sides, plug those into a small mixer which the drummer has next to him where he can adjust volumes of backing track/metronome to his liking, while sending an aux of the backing track to the PA

 

[heavenshell]

Heres how ive done it ,

SOURCE ( ie i pod , laptop) in your case prob a i pod

u bounce each song stereo pan the click left and backtracks right

than u get a y cable ( minijack to (2)(L&R) 1/8 inch) so u take the left plug it into channel 1 of a the drummers personal mixer pan that hard left than get the right y cable and plug that into channel 2 pan that hard right

than u plug the drummers headphones into teh headphone out of teh mixer so he will be able to adjust everything perfectly than u send the master RIGHT out so the Front of house

so ull have a personal mix but then ull be able to send just the tracks to the P.A and adjust the volume without it affecting the drummers in ears

thats the easiest way i no ..

Andrew