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The Tascam MPGT1 is designed with musicians in mind. It combines a guitar trainer based on the award winning Tascam CD-GT1mkII. With enough memory to store up to 240 tunes, this is even more portable than the original. Play back MP3s using Variable Speed Audition, which slows down the speed without changing the pitch, and sections can be seamlessly looped while practicing tricky passages. The guitar input lets you play with the built in Multi-effects. Also includes a guitar canceller to play along with your favorite bands. A tuner, metronome, and rechargeable battery are also built-in. All these features in a package small enough to fit in your pocket. A 9-hour lithium-ion battery or an optional power supply will power the unit.
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- 240-song memory capacity (based on average 4-minute MP3 encoded at 128kbps)^Variable Speed Audition changes the speed of the MP3 playback without changing the pitch ^Pitch control in 1% steps so you don't have to re-tune^Seamless looping for practicing tricky passages^High-impedance 1/4 inch bass input- 240-song memory capacity; Variable Speed Audition changes the speed of the MP3 playback without changing the pitch
- Variable Speed Audition changes the speed of the MP3 playback without changing the pitch
- Pitch control in 1% steps so you don't have to re-tune;Seamless looping for practicing tricky passages
- High-impedance 1/4 inch bass input
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By Louis Marino (Bakersfield, CA USA)
I own two of these. I am a music teacher and a performing musician. I use one for teaching and one for band songs. The speed control makes it possible to slow the tempo down for students. The sound quality suffers when adjustments are made, but it is still good enough to play along with. For my band practice, I am able to put the song in the singer's key, and also to make fine adjustments for recordings that are not exactly tuned to standard pitch. You can plug your instrument directly into it,listen through headphones, and not disturb anyone with the noise. There are a lot of built in effects for the guitar, but I rarely use them because their quality is mediocre. This unit is a great learning tool, but the sound quality suffers when adjustments are made, so I only gave it four stars. I would love to hear something like this that sounds normal when changes are made in tempo and pitch!
By Kayaking Swimmer (Nashville, TN United States)
As the reviewers (with more talent than me have said), this is a very good product. I was immediately impressed with the quality of the machined aluminum case, very sturdy. It works as intended, and when you use the slow function in all but the slowest settings, the sound remains very good. It is also very versatile, you can listen through headphone and play acoustic along, you can plug electric through the Tascam and listen through phones, and you can plug your guitar into your practice amp and use a separate cable to plug the Tascam into the import jack of the amp. I use the same cable I use to plug my iPod into the input of my pickup stereo. In fact, sometimes at lunchtime, I go out and play my guitar into trainer, and the trainer into my truck stereo and play through my Bose in the parking lot. Like I said, very versatile.
Here are the two reasons that I cannot give it five stars: first the user interface is good for the song (or playlist) you are playing at the time, but other parts of the menu system are very cumbersome. And secondly, you will have to buy the power supply separately. You can charge it through a USB port and you cannot use it while it is charging. The rechargeable feature is nice but does not last long. It seems like it is always out of power when I want to use it. The power supply is not cheap either.
By Vestige (PA)
Ok, I will do my best to answer everyone's questions that aren't asked here yet, in which I also had before I purchased this item. This trainer is just amazing. It helps you out in so many ways. First off, this CAN be used simply as a portable amp, exactly as the "Dean Stack in the Box". I know I'm not reviewing that item, but I would like to give some information about it. The Dean stack in the box is a great portable headphone amp. It has great volume, great distortion, and most of all (in which no one else covers) it carries through great pinch harmonics great. Unlike the portable pignose amp, where it does not carry through pinch harmonics one bit. The Dean in a box though can be a pain changing the 9v battery, which can lead to the wires breaking, wich is what happened to me. It was still an amazing product though, with amazing sound, and amazing pinch harmonic carry through.
Now, with that said, it leads me to this. THIS guitar trainer, has GREAT sustain also, and carrys through pinch harmonics just like a normal amp, and jsut like dean in the box. They will not die out like the pignose amp. Also, it has a rechargeable battery in it, so there are no wires to rip off, like dean in the box while changing a battery. This is also built like a tank. Super tough and durable. Makes you want to take good care of it right away. The rechargable battery on it also lasts a long time. I would say well over many many hours.
I want to clarify what exactly the guitar cancelling feature does. It does not cancel the guitar out, so you can substitute your own. It instead pushes all other sound (vocals, drums, etc) into the background (which is dim but still heard) while the guitar in the track shines through so you can hear it clearly and study it more, note for note. Let me tell you, it works very very well. Like one reviewer said, you do hear wayyy more than you have heard before. And this is coming from me, a guitarist of many years, whom has an ear for music, and picks up on every single note and plays by ear. I was even very amazed.
I will now do the best I can to break everything down into all the positive parts of owning this trainer, as there are no disadvantages that I have found:
* This trainer CAN be used as a portable headphone amp, without any song playing in the background, and it does have many amp effects, from clean, to overdrive and distortion for metal (which I play). It has great affects like reverb, chorus, flanger, overdrive, etc.
* Is not cheap, like other portable devices, so no wires will break off changing batteries, since you simply dont have any batteries to change.
* Built very strong and durable.
* It DOES let you create sub-folders, so you can put entire folders into it and sort by artist or albums, instead of having one long list ot a thousand tracks.
* Guitar cancelling feature (as described above) works fantastic.
* While playing a track, you can adjust the volume of the track playback, and your guitar volume, so if the track volume, or guitar volume is higher than the other, you can equalize them at the same volume, or make your guitar volume louder, or the track volume louder.
* You can slow the track speed down 50%, which is amazing. You can also keep the pitch the same, so whether you speed the track up or slow it down, it wont sound like a chipmunk, or someone from a horror movie. It keeps the original tone. You can, however, turn this function off.
* You can turn the pitch up or down, so if it is in standard e tuning, you can chance the tuning of the song. Although it WILL NOT drop all the way down to drop d tuning or anything like that, it still works great.
* You can quickly pick a start and stop point for it to start looping, so if there is a solo, or any part like that, that you want to keep going over and over until you learn it, you can loop it.
* You can create a playlist, just like on an mp3 player.
* This can be used as an mp3 player (although I never would, since it's expensive, and I never want to break it.
* Has a ton of storage. About 900 MB worth (actually a hair more.
So all in all, this trainer is simply amazing! It does exactly what it says it does, and a whole lot more. Even if I didn't need it for a trainer, but was simply looking for a portable headphone amp for travelling, I would easily choose this over dean stack in the box or anything else. I was not disappointed one single bit. I love this thing.
Hope this helps! Enjoy!
By B. Porter (Wisconsin)
I bought this for my husband because he travels a lot and takes his guitar with when he does. This way he can practice at the level he does when he is at home without a bulky piece of equipment. This is about the size of an ipod. He loves it and says it works great!
The retailer I bought it from on Amazon was great as well. Shipped fast, even during the busy holiday season.
By Bud Davis
I have used the Tascam CD trainers for many years and I bought one of these MP3 trainers when they came out. I liked using the MP3 files instead of messing with CDs. However, the controls on the MPGT1 were kind or crappy and never work as well as the play, stop, rewind, loop, controls on TASCAM's CD players. The menu system is awkward and the big bumpy wheel control is just a crappy control.
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