03-10-2017, 19:27
To update my situation:
For some time now I have been planning to launch a very modest career for myself, singing live in local venues. I have kept putting things off though, but maybe I am now ready to start purchasing the necessary PA equipment.
So suppose I buy a microphone with stand, a mixer, and an amplifier. A hired accompanist can then plug his electronic keyboard into the mixer, and the performance begins.
Then it occurs to me. Could I plug my mobile phone into the mixer instead? Does a cable exist which allows me to do that? I was wondering that maybe I could hire a musician to record a backing track, which I could then download to my mobile phone.
Then it occurs to me that there are plenty of karaoke tracks on Youtube. If I can plug my mobile phone into a mixer, then maybe I can sing along to a backing track which I did not have to commission.
For some time now I have been planning to launch a very modest career for myself, singing live in local venues. I have kept putting things off though, but maybe I am now ready to start purchasing the necessary PA equipment.
So suppose I buy a microphone with stand, a mixer, and an amplifier. A hired accompanist can then plug his electronic keyboard into the mixer, and the performance begins.
Then it occurs to me. Could I plug my mobile phone into the mixer instead? Does a cable exist which allows me to do that? I was wondering that maybe I could hire a musician to record a backing track, which I could then download to my mobile phone.
Then it occurs to me that there are plenty of karaoke tracks on Youtube. If I can plug my mobile phone into a mixer, then maybe I can sing along to a backing track which I did not have to commission.