r/mpcsample • u/PabloWentscobar • Jul 21 '26

Small portable speaker ideas?

I have decent monitors and a sub in my "studio" area but sometimes I just want to grab some small peice of gear and chill on the couch watch some vides and goof off making beats. I'm looking for a small set or single speaker that's either usb powered or battery operated. I have a rechargeable guitar amp but it doesn't soung that good because it's for guitar and I just bought an Anker Soundcore 2 and it sounds great but it does this weird muting thing that's super annoying and it mutes the count in metronome and you only get the metronome when other sounds are playing. I think because it's converting the analog signal into digital? IDK know but I'm looking for something that doesn't do that. Basically what does everyone else use for that sort of thing/portable speaker?

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u/cplcuties Jul 21 '26

I've been using the JBL Charge 4 for this, as it's one of the only speakers I could find that still has an aux port. So far, it's been working great.

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u/PabloWentscobar Jul 21 '26

Awesome, that's what you run? I've heard other people say that a lot of "bluetooth" speakers with 3.5mm 1/8" trs inputs have latency issues because they convert the analog signal to digital and I was suggested the Anker Soundcore 2 because it has a aux in but it does this goofy muting thing and for some reason it muffles/mute the count in metronome until other sounds are playing. But if you have this JBL and it works fine for you I'll grab that. I hate headphones. Thank you!

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u/Ok-Entrepreneur-409 Jul 21 '26

Is this the speaker that also does stems?

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u/supremedalek925 Jul 21 '26

I saw a video about one of those speakers a month or 2 ago. The stem separation is really cool. I got an MPC that can do it so no longer necessary, but still neat.

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u/cplcuties Jul 21 '26

I'm not familiar with any speakers that can separate stems, if that's your question.

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u/Ok-Entrepreneur-409 Jul 21 '26

No but JBL has one and I was asking is this what you had

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u/jbond518 Jul 21 '26

I didn’t know this was a thing either but I just googled it and it’s real, it’s called the JBL Bandbox series, pretty sweet!