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Reamping instruments with travel speaker

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Reamping instruments with travel speaker

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- [Instructor] While on the road recently, a friend turned me onto this cool little Bluetooth travel speaker made by Bose called the SoundLink Mini. It sounded pretty decent for such a small size and he mentioned that it must synthesize a bit of low end and use speaker porting to help it sound like it was generating more low frequencies than it rightfully should. I noticed the eight-inch input jack on the side and I started wondering what I could do with this little speaker. Right after that, I read an interview with a fellow engineer-producer who also mentioned the exact same thing I was thinking, so let's do it and run sound into this little speaker for re-amping and see what changes. I created another video, Re-amping Vocals with Travel Speaker where I ran vocals through this box but in this test I wanted to find out what instruments sounded like in the speaker. I placed an omni-directional mic up close to the speaker grill and using a stereo direct box backwards, I ran audio into…

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