Apologies if this is a naive question but completely new to this technology.
I have just recently purchase a focusrite 2i2 and started using jamkazam, I have had a couple of sessions with my guitar just direct into the focusrite and it was ok, but tonight I wanted to play with a bit of overdrive so decided to use my line 6firehawk fx, I thought it sounded ok at my end.
So my question is what are the pros and cons of multi effects VST plug ins, such as guitar rig 5 versus a multi effects unit
We open our own custom drum backing tracks in a Jamkazam session. Works pretty well but quite often we can't close the file so we can open the next one. Fairly good session today with four of us all located between Seattle and the Canadian border ....we continue to have problems when we open a local audio file or Jam track and about half the time it won't close so that you can go on to the next one ...
we did discover that even though I started the session I can leave and the three remaining musicians can invite me back in at which point the file will close....... This is our number one problem with JamKazam right now
When an approval request appears in Notifications it would be useful to be able to enquire upon the requestor's details ; Location, Instrument etc. via the usual window. Currently I have to open Jamkazam in a browser, separately, to do this. Sometimes the Requestors' ID cannot be found in the Search, which doesn't help.
This assumes that they bother to complete their profile, of course!
I, as a regular fan of the application, would like to request a feature. I am looking to provide "Fan" access thru my television in a semi seamless way. This could be done with a thin application for android tv, which streams a fan room. No input is required. Thanks in advance.
1. The mute button is handy... a solo button would be equally handy
2. A room max occupancy option would make managing the flow of guests SO MUCH EASIER.
You could set a maximum users for a room once and forget it so getting overloaded
with guests would be avoided without having to constantly manage the access status.
So I'm headed out for a rehearsal & I don't want to tote a tube amp, even though I have some ax fx 2 power amp. I grabbed my (now discontinued) Crate Power Block. It sounds great w/a JBL K120! Nice & punchy w/tons of headroom. I have to say that convenience has won out here & I'm pretty sure I'm going to use it at my next gig.
Anybody else here wants to confess an appreciation for a particular SS amp?
Thanks
I plug my guitar into Channel 2 of my audio interface. I have thus selected Channel 2 as my Input on JamKazam and Outputs 1 and 2 of my interface, as my Outputs.
I also elected by Bias 2 guitar amp simulator, as my plug in. It all was accepted. However, when I record audio of my session, I only hear the non processed sound of my guitar. Why is it that I do not hear the processed sound? The plug in is active, but all i hear is the clean sound of my guitar. I am concerned because I suspect the prople I jam with are probably only hearing the clean sound of my guitar as well. How do i JamKazam to recognize the post plug in processed sound?
We had a test session last night with 3 people A – B – C with the followingSetup:
Person A: Windows10 Laptop, Interface Steinberg UR22MK2, Internet 45Mbit/s download, 9Mbit/s upload
Person B: Windows10 Laptop, Interface Behringer UMC404HD, Internet 84Mbit/s download, 38Mbit/s upload
Person C: Mac Laptop, Interface Focusrite Scarlet Solo 3rd Gen, Internet 64Mbit/s download, 13Mbit/s upload
Physical Distances:
A – B: 7 km (3.5 miles)
A – C: 30 km (20 miles)
B – C: 23 km (15 miles)
Experiences:
A => B: reasonable total latency, good sound quality
B => A: reasonable total latency, high internet jitter, very frequent package loss 100% and low audio Bw Rx resulting in extremely bad sound quality, i.e. frequent and long disruptions (95% of time no audio at all)
A => C: reasonable total latency, good sound quality
C => A: reasonable total latency, good sound quality
B=> C: high internet latency resulting in high total latency, good sound quality
C => B: high internet latency resulting in high total latency, good sound quality
For details refer to attachedSketch01 with the session diagnostics to and fro between all participants.
Comments:
B and C had a session one day earlier, same set up, same equipment, same internet, same settings in JK: internet latency 10ms, total latency 18 – 20 ms, good sound quality
A and B had a session a couple of days earlier, same set up, same equipment, same internet, same settings in JK: low internet jitter whatsoever resulting in good sound quality, total latency approx. 25 ms
What we tested last night to get rid of the problems:
Leave the session and step back in person by person: no change => no change
Cancel the session and restart it => no change
On all 3 laptops: Sign out from JK, shut down JK, restart laptop, new JK session => no change
Just A leaves the session/new session with just B and C => no improvement with the B – C/C – B issue
Just C leaves the session/new session with just A and B => no improvement with the A – B issue
New experience: After 1 ½ hrs of restarts, new sessions etc. (see above) all of a sudden the A => B issue was gone without any changes in settings whatsoever. Clear sound without disruptions now. However, the B – C issue stayed unchanged. Refer to Sketch02.
Questions: Any explanations for the phenomena described? And more important, any ideas or advice what to do to get rid of the issues, reliable and for good? “Works every now and then” wouldn’t be a good basis for regular band rehearsals.
I am trying to set up an audio profile on my JK using Windows 10 Laptop. I had set up one profile using the Focuscite 2i2 audio interface and it worked beautifully but as I am trying to help other members in my musical group so I tried to set up a profile using headphones into the 3.5 mm jack on the laptop and using the onboard Microphone on the laptop itself.
I have tried setting input device to "Microphone Array 1 (Realtek HC Audio Mic input with SST) - WDM" and the Audio Output Device to "Speakers 1 (RealTek HD AHoudio output with SST) - WDM"
I then get an "Invalid Audio Device" Message. JK then cycles some sample rates and then I am stuck. Has anyone encountered this and might know of any good fixes.
The last few weeks have been terrible trying to use JK. People joining can't get in at all or get in and some or all of the other session members can't hear them. Players drop out either completely or audio only during sessions. We waste at least 1/2 hour with people repeatedly trying to rejoin, restarting JK client, rebooting computers, and closing the opening new sessions. If we're lucky we can get in 45 minutes of playing before something goes wrong again.
I play in 3 different regular groups and all 3 are experiencing this.
Please, I'd like to hear from JK itself. I am assuming that the defaults on the client are the settings JK prefers we use. 3 or 4 weeks ago there was a release that had Prefer Lowest Latency as the default. That week was the first where sessions became total disasters and we had to bail. A few days later was another release and a notable change was the default was once again Prefer Peer-to-peer. So I must assume this was intentional from the developers.
A lot of forum posts are complaining about this exact same issue and every JKer I've spoken with BAR NONE are experiencing these issues.
I suspect part of this issue is something to do with servers/caches. When I am forced out of a session and looking to get back in, I see some of my session members in "other" sessions which is not the case and these other "ghost" sessions in fact don't exist. Rebooting the JK client seems to be the only way to clear this up. And then after that actually getting into my original session is still subject to all the connectivity problems mentioned above.
PLEASE JAMKAZAM - DON"T LEAVE US IN THE LURCH. SAY SOMETHING!
Fellow JK-ers. Everyone means well but please don't reply with second-hand anecdotes like "I heard some people have done this or that and it worked...". If you have first-hand repeated success I'd love to hear about your methods.
