Tascam guitar trainer cd-gt1

[Erik S]

The early aughts were a weird time for music gear.

Anybody ever use one of these things?

It mixes a guitar signal with a CD for play-along and has a bunch of funny preset effects. It does let you set a start and stop point in a track and it’ll keep looping that section which is cool. It also has a slow-down function which I haven’t tried yet.

I really just played with it enough to verify it works. Now I need to find a cd I really want to learn some stuff from.

 

[Paradox916]

That would have been useful, all I ever had as a kid was the rewind/back button on the tape/cd player and a copy of guitar world. Kids don’t realize how easy it is to learn guitar these days…. Damn when did I get old and crusty?

 

[jcpst]

all I ever had as a kid was the rewind/back button on the tape/cd player and a copy of guitar world.

Oh man that takes me back. I would find old used vinyl at the antique store, record them on cassette so I could sit with my guitar and do the stop-rewind-play pattern until I figured out the riffs.

That was before vinyl became cool again, I could get records for 25-50¢

 

[Erik S]

Oh man that takes me back. I would find old used vinyl at the antique store, record them on cassette so I could sit with my guitar and do the stop-rewind-play pattern until I figured out the riffs.

That was before vinyl became cool again, I could get records for 25-50¢

I didn’t have the attention span for any of that when I was a kid.

Turns out I probably still don’t.

 

[Stickman393]

What are these CDs you speak of?

Nah. Just kidding. Im old.

My old guitar teacher had something similar. Used it to slow down shreddy shreddys.

 

[peccary]

Did you get that off Goodwill? I think I had that in my watch list

I had the Alesis equivalent in the early 2000's. I really liked it as it was able to slow the song down without changing the pitch. It made learning bass parts much easier. I don't know if the Tascam does that, though.

I had it for a few months and then dropped it down a flight of concrete stairs

 

[Harry Klippton]

Did you get that off Goodwill? I think I had that in my watch list

I had the Alesis equivalent in the early 2000's. I really liked it as it was able to slow the song down without changing the pitch. It made learning bass parts much easier. I don't know if the Tascam does that, though.

I had it for a few months and then dropped it down a flight of concrete stairs

 

[Erik S]

Did you get that off Goodwill? I think I had that in my watch list

I had the Alesis equivalent in the early 2000's. I really liked it as it was able to slow the song down without changing the pitch. It made learning bass parts much easier. I don't know if the Tascam does that, though.

I had it for a few months and then dropped it down a flight of concrete stairs

Nah, it was my stepdad’s. At the last family gathering he made a big give-away pile of gadgets and tools and stuff he hasn’t used in 20 years. I also got some mini discs and a nice jigsaw!

I think it does do the slow down thing. I read about it in the manual but I haven’t tried it.

 

[Nostradoomus]

That would have been useful, all I ever had as a kid was the rewind/back button on the tape/cd player and a copy of guitar world. Kids don’t realize how easy it is to learn guitar these days…. Damn when did I get old and crusty?

same but my ears probably wouldn't be as good if I didn't do it that way