Anyone know a way to pan music with an iPod?

[Colin_D]

I've been searching and it seems that somehow iPods don't do it. I've got the disc from Building Walking Bass Lines ripped and want to work with it using my iPod, but apparently I can't pan to the right to get the drum and piano only Is there a way to do this that I am missing? I looked at loading the tracks into Garageband and then panning them that way, and exporting them to MP3, but it's a PITA as there are so many tracks on the disk.

[Hellbastard]

wear only the right earpiece of your headpohones

[totallyfrozen]

I don't think the iPod has a Balance feature. I don't have one on mine, anyway.

[braydensharrar]

I needed to do the same thing, he's what I did.

I got a 1/8" male stereo to 2 1/4" female mono cable, it splits the signal into left and right. Then I used the 1/8" female to 1/4" male adapter that came with my headphones and plugged it into either the left or right female plug of the cable depending on what I wanted to hear.

It worked great for transcribing panned solos (Trane stuff mainly) and playing along to some, well, play-alongs. haha

I hope this was clear enough to get, it's a shame Apple doesn't just add a balance feature on the iPods.

Here is a link the cable I got.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc..._1_8_Male.html

Good luck!

~B

[Colin_D]

Thanks for the heads up on the cable idea! A lot faster than trying to strip on track out of the MP3's at first I thought that would be the way to go, but it's pretty time-consuming.

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Originally Posted by Hellbastard

wear only the right earpiece of your headpohones

^^^Brilliant^^^

[Colin_D]

Most of the time I'm running my iPod into my practice amp tho, so that solution, however elegant wont work as well.