If you are using a 20-foot cable, and we’ll say you are playing about 12-feet away from your amp, you will have slightly more than a 12ms latency. Really annoying actually, to the point that you may call it ‘unplayable.’ Our brain can compensate for a bit of latency while playing, but only up to a certain point.ĭid you know that the speed of sound traveling through air is approximately a thousand feet per second (1000 fps)? That means each millisecond of delay is equivalent to listening to the sound from a point one foot further away. Latency becomes noticeable around 10 ms, and latency higher than 100ms is enough lag to become annoying. There is also a conversation about it over at Justin Guitar, found here. If you’re a little bit nerdier and want to read up on which Bluetooth codec is able to achieve 40 ms latency, you can find more information on Qualcomm’s website here. This is a long enough latency to be noticeable and is enough to be annoying. Guitars can be connected to guitar amplifiers using Bluetooth transmitters and receivers, but the latency between the instant you play a string and the moment the sound comes out of the speaker will be a minimum of 40 ms. Is Bluetooth a viable option for eliminating the cable between the guitar and the guitar amp? Can you use Bluetooth for playing guitar through an amp? That is something that guitarists are very aware of as they often have to deal with all sorts of cables, running from the guitar to the pedalboard, between pedals, and the amp. These days we don’t want to be restricted by wires.
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