Teisco Interface Demos & Tutorials

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How to Use Your Teisco Interface for Silent Practice and Recording on a PC and an iPhone

Hey, my name’s Emily and you’re watching get offset. And today I have the Teisco interface puddle. It’s not a pedal in a traditional sense where it, you know, makes a specific sound or a specific series type of sound. Um, no, this isn’t an interface that you’re supposed to plug into your computer.

[00:00:24] You can do a lot with it. And that’s, uh, what I’m going to talk about today is just one slash two of the things that you can do with this pedal. And they’re going to be a little bit difficult to, to capture. So I probably am not going to be in the video much, but I’ll be talking, explaining what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, et cetera.

[00:00:48] So the first thing I want to show you. On this interface that looks like a pedal is how to use it for silent practice. And, um, without your pedal board at all. So no other pedals, silent practice, uh, just you and this pedal and your, your smartphone. Um, I think I phones is primarily what it works with right now.

[00:01:15] So I’m gonna be showing you that to you. I normally use the iPhone to record. The me video in the me audio, because it sounds better than a couple of other options. I have a, so I’m going to, uh, do things a little bit differently today. You’re not going to see me. You’re just going to see the screen and the, probably the pedal, uh, that’s all the important stuff anyway, whatever.

[00:01:42] So you don’t need to have any effects plugged in with this interface, which is really cool. You can just use what I’m going to do on my phone. I’m going to use GarageBand. I’ve either. It’s a free app or I paid for it so long ago. I don’t remember. I used to have an iRig so I could plug in, um, my, my, um, my guitar directly into the GarageBand on my iPad.

[00:02:08] And that was really fun. I had a lot of fun, um, writing with it, kind of on the go, having slightly better recordings then. I had with my tools at the time, which was literally like audacity being recorded through my laptop speakers. Um, I had to record stuff for my songwriting classes in college. Yeah. I studied songwriting in college, kind of who, let me do that.

[00:02:32] Just kidding. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Um, yeah. So there are some specific tools you need, uh, to get this, to work on your phone, to power the interface. You need this cable, this tangled cable. What a great representation I’m doing right now. It’s a USB too. Um, whatever this is called. So this plug N to the pedal on this side,

[00:03:08] very good. Okay. And this plugs into your computer. But how do you use it with a phone? You buy this little USB to lightning, port adapter and you just plug it in. Um, you’ll see that this actually is a little bit of a camera icon on it. No, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe that’s a little camera icon, but, uh, it can be used for other things.

[00:03:34] I think people just like to plug their cameras. And so their computers, I used to have an attachment where I could put my SD card directly into my iPhone and upload my pictures that way. Um, but yeah, so enough of me talking here, what I’m going to do though, I am going to, um, get GarageBand up and running.

[00:03:54] I’m going to plug this into my phone. Everything’s going to happen over here. So, um, yeah, enjoy the rest of the video and some of the. Some of the cool sounds that can come from, um, garage, man. All right. Thanks. All right. Got my iPhone on. My case is off so my phone will lay nice and flat. I have it plugged in to the Teisco interface there.

[00:04:18] Um, it’s powering the Teisco. So keep that in mind for your battery levels. Uh, that’s kind of a smaller, a smaller concern. I have input a. And these are my level and game controls for my input there. So I’ll have to level up all the way in the gain up to about noon I’m monitoring personally, via, via the, a B monitor out.

[00:04:45] So you need a quarter inch headphone Jack to, to monitor. Um, you actually might be able to monitor with Bluetooth headphones. You will definitely have some latency from that. So keep that in mind. So I’ve opened up the GarageBand app and they have all of these things that you can choose from. We do not want audio recording.

[00:05:06] What we want is the amps. So we are going to choose if we want cleaner, distorted or base, I’m going to choose a clean amp sound. Okay. So first things first, you need to turn on monitoring and sometimes you get a pop up that reminds you, and sometimes you don’t. So I’m going to go over here. Click monitor a, well, this is all my input stuff.

[00:05:31] So you can set like automatic input levels, which is kind of nice. Um, you can connect to other audio apps, but all we really care about at this moment is monitoring.

[00:05:48] So let’s click done.

[00:05:59] It helps me turn up my volume. So GarageBand has a bunch of built in sounds. You can also add from other libraries, but first let’s tune. Cause you can even tune in this.

[00:06:39] nice. Easy to understand tuner.

[00:06:49] cool. Let’s turn off the tuner. And let’s see what different amps we have. So this is yeah, there we’ll start at the top.

[00:07:04] Whoa.

[00:07:09] So I might have something turned on. Um, we can, let’s just go over here. I probably have, no, I don’t have any echo turned on. Mmm

[00:07:24] name sounds like I’ll get to that later. Sorry for rushing into it.

[00:07:38] Nice. So you have a game controls base. That’s trouble. You have the level control. You can add tremolo. So. You guys kind of tap on the icon and go up and down all around and then you go do, you can set your rate as well.

[00:08:15] so make sure that when you swipe, you’re actually swiping.

[00:08:25] and your eat settings like EEQ tremolo. Those will go between all the different apps.

[00:09:01] Brown

[00:09:05] and let’s look at the mixing controls that we have available. So we have output, we can select panning.

[00:09:32] troubles. There we go. It’s sort of clicks in the center, but I’m just bad at it. You can also plugins and EEQ so you can compress the sound

[00:09:56] and then let’s look at the master effect. So you have levels for reverb

[00:10:07] um, bum notes, galore and echo.

[00:10:14] Let’s turn this down and you can select different types. Of reverb. So that’s, for some reason, the default,

[00:10:32] you can hear that I’ll kind of have the same sort of vibe

[00:10:39] to me.

[00:10:46] So. Let’s see what

[00:10:54] nice. And then the echo has some options too. I don’t have any echo on, so I’m going to turn that on.

[00:11:15] So you can go through any of these.

[00:11:19] Just find something that you like, and that’s not all of the controls that you have. You also have these guys, so this explains a little bit, you can turn these pedals on off. You can change them. We have a squishy compressor. You hit that button to turn it off. You can see that led go on or off.

[00:11:57] and you can add, just click in that space.

[00:12:21] so, uh, you can probably delete these. Yeah. You can move them around. This kind of squish them off the page.

[00:12:42] but how do we record easy? You want to go to your recording settings? Let’s adjust our tempo so we can actually tap to set

[00:12:59] Yeah. So I got my tempo the way I wanted. Oops. That’s not the only setting. Uh, you can set key signatures, time signatures, key signatures are for, if you’re going to add some more good, the, some kind of goofy stuff, um, like tap to add chords and bass reps and stuff. I’m not really going to do that, but I, but you can change it.

[00:13:22] Uh, let’s see. It’s B, there we go. Cool. Back to other settings, fade out notepad don’t have any of these things. Don’t really want to look into the advanced stuff, but here’s some things so let’s click done and we’re going to get a count in.

[00:14:10] And I go back. I can listen to it.

[00:14:18] And I can rerecord if I’m not happy with that.

[00:14:38] Cool. So, uh, if we want to add another track, what do we do? How do we do that?

[00:14:47] Let’s add a distorted sound. And we, once again, as it turned on monitoring, I was unable to figure out a way personally to always have monitoring on, but I’m sure that there is. So let’s add a court, a chorus to this.

[00:15:22] go to the top.

[00:15:44] let’s listen to that.

[00:16:03] good enough to like, consider, to be like an idea that you’ve cemented so that you don’t lose it. And then you can do fun stuff. Like you can select this track. We talked about panning before, put that over there, take this track, put it over there.

[00:16:39] great. So that’s in a nutshell, how you, um, how, how you add. And create, uh, tracks for mostly for practice and for writing. Like these are not going to be like the demos you send to Quincy Jones or whoever is, is cool now. Um, but you can, there’s a lot that you can do with it. You can trim, you can, um, split, you can live, you can go to your settings, allegedly.

[00:17:16] You can delete stuff by accident, you know, it happens, but yeah, the more you do this, the more, um, the more you’ll figure out and the more comfortable you’ll be with it, GarageBand doesn’t really seem like a change changed a lot since I was a wee babe. So, um, yeah, I’m sure there are tons of, um, uh, things that I just don’t know how to do.

[00:17:46] And this, uh, but I’m trying, I’m learning. I think that, uh, as for practice, which is essentially what I wanted to showcase in the city. Oh yeah. It’s, it’s a, it’s a great tool. I can definitely imagine taking this and a little guitar on vacation so I can always have a tool that allows me to, you know, not just play guitar.

[00:18:11] But with the feel of it, but it’s a play guitar and get the sound, um, some approximation of the sound that I like, even if I don’t have my own equipment with me to, to make the sounds that I like. So yeah, I am, I’m a fan I’m going to, um, you know, cause this video end of it. And uh, I’m going to do one on, you said the computer next.

[00:18:39] So please stick around. Hey, I’m back. And this time I’m on a computer. Got my webcam. Now you can see what the back end of my office looks like. I have my Squire paranormal series, all set Telecaster. Um, not that that really super duper matters right now. I have my. Teisco interface, uh, plugged in exactly the same only this time using the B output and it doesn’t matter.

[00:19:11] And I’ll show you how little it matters. So let’s get in to the, um, band lab. So this is the back end of band labs. You can see some existing. I have to practice tracks with cakewalk. I was able to upload an existing, um, song that I could then just practice or lay guitar riffs on top of which is really cool, but we’re going to create a new project.

[00:19:50] We are going to select gets har.

[00:19:55] As you can see, I’m not getting any signal, even though the input is the interface, because. I’m on channel B. I told you that. So let’s move over to channel two and see if that changes things.

[00:20:18] what do you know? It does. And there is a little bit of latency. Um, I’m going just. To save myself at any time I’m going to be using a ducking techniques. So I don’t know if you’ll be able to hear that latency, but mm mm, mm, mm, mm. Very, very minor. And it’s annoying at first, but you get used to it. So just there is more latency.

[00:20:43] I feel like in cakewalk than there is in GarageBand. But there are a lot of pros that I can get into, but for now, let’s just look at some of the sounds. How do we, how do we do more than this clean sound? We just click on your dot, dot dots there and look at all this stuff.

[00:21:10] No, that’s not the Jimmy Hendrix cord.

[00:21:16] Just kidding. Uh, so that’s one of them.

[00:21:26] one thing I don’t like about latency is that I feel like it slows down my playing just the same way that you have. If you have any echo, it turns down your, um, like it slows down. You’re talking because you’re, you’re kind of waiting for it to catch up with yourself.

[00:21:44] Yeah, so pointless noodling there. Um, but there is a ton of existing presets let’s look at, uh, driving lead. Hm.

[00:22:07] Yeah. So that is a look at the precess just quick. Quick things to get into anything fun stereo course. Ooh,

[00:22:37] I like it. But if we want more customization, we can do that too. We’re just going to FX affects, which is hilariously redundant. And you can see all of these little guys, these little, um, sections here. So we have our amp type, a Brit classic. Let’s change it to a jazz JC one 20 kind of sound.

[00:23:09] Nate, we can increase the depth. We can add modules. We can add calves, guitar, cab.

[00:23:24] Yikes. Let’s get a

[00:23:34] C that changes the sound a lot.

[00:23:44] hard to not have some gain there.

[00:23:52] so, uh, you can’t really see this, but on the interface, there’s a gain control. And by turning that down

[00:24:04] versus. You can hear a difference. I think.

[00:24:15] Cool. Let’s get rid of that.

[00:24:21] Wait. So all kinds of stuff. Stereo, chorus, studio reverb. Yeah.

[00:24:29] On top of the spring river

[00:24:36] did not like that.

[00:24:40] so let’s look at recording with this. You have up here, your beats per minute, your time signature, and you can enable

[00:24:53] or disable the metronome. And there are some fun metronome sounds. Let’s go with cat because I cannot imagine what that would sound like. And then you have count N. Uh, so two bar counting, cause I am I’m the worst. And I think that one bar sometimes is not enough for me to count in. So, uh, let’s try a little bit of recording there.

[00:25:15] Wow.

[00:25:53] well, that was insane.

[00:26:01] That was truly bananas. Okay. Um, now let’s look at recording a second track. So we’re going to click, add track, go to guitar. Let’s try a different preset. Let’s do a big solo.

[00:26:24] All right. Let’s close the FX, go click on big solo, go to source. Cause it’s got to change the channel again. Nice. Let me grab a guitar pick out of my pocket and we’re going to have that count and that’s going to be insane.

[00:27:27] that is insane and hilarious. And I’m never going to use that sound again, but I will just turn that off. And obviously my tempo was bad because. That was not even helpful, but that was pretty funny.

[00:27:59] yeah. And then weirdly, weirdly trails bypass, um, On all of those reverbs when you stop the recording, which is, I hope there’s a way to turn that off because I don’t like that at all. Uh, honestly, some people might, it’s probably really fun for practicing, but that’s kind of the last thing I want in general, but that’s a look at two ways to use the, um, Teisco interface for silent practice and recording demos without having your pedal board.

[00:28:36] Anywhere near you. Lots of sounds are available both in GarageBand cakewalk. There’s lots of other interfaces that this works. I mean, sorry. Does digital audio workstations that this interface can work with? Um, I usually used to do one for recording. Didn’t try that here. Uh, I just really wanted to stick to those free or very popular options.

[00:29:01] GarageBand, extremely popular cakewalk free. And you know, not a professional doll, but I mean, this is a great way. If you just have your computer in a hotel room or on a vacation, or just don’t want to bother anybody when you’re, when the muse that is music hits you at two in the morning. These are cool options.

[00:29:23] I really like them. Um, but anyway, please like comment, subscribe. Tell me what else you want to see me do with the Teisco digital interface. There are a lot of ways to use it. If you have any questions, want me to try something out, hit me up in the comments below, um, otherwise, uh, thanks for watching.

[00:29:39] Thanks for understanding until next time. My name is Emily goodbye.