Practice #1 setting up the Jamhub

So we pull the Jam hub Bedroom out of the box set up the electronic drum kit, get everything plugged in and start messing around. The first issue we ran into which we could have solved by reading the instructions properly is that regular guitar cables don’t work! All of our instruments are only on one side of the headphone mix, the machine comes with one stereo jack adapter so we get one guitar in stereo. Know we know for our next jam to bring the proper cables. After a few minutes of tweaking and setting up our mixes we start to get things sounding good, and run an output from the hub to my Mbox2 so we can record our jams and not have to stop and write down our ideas. We have a few problems getting the right amount of level to pro tools but again with a little work we managed to get everything dialed in. All in all with a little more preparation and reading on our part the set up would have been much smoother. All that is left to do now is start Jamming! Thats the easy part.. Everything sounds great in our headphones and each musician is able to set their own mix! Within a few minutes we are ripping out a new song and it really doesnt feel uncomfortable at all being plugged into headphones instead of being live. Its nice to be able to sit down in a close circle and work things out while hearing your instruments just as you want in your headphones. We have also found that using electronic drums for the first time has inspired some different style music due to the ability to have hundreds of different sounding kits and sound effects. All in all our first experience in with the Jamhub was a great success we wrote 2 new songs and worked out our set up in a few hours, all the while my 18month old baby was sound asleep upstairs and I never hear a worked from the neighbours! Can’t wait for next week now that everything is set up we can get right to work as soon as the band shows up!