Patent ID: 7262358

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a headset comprising a microphone and a headphone; a music generation device; a processing unit contained in a single housing, said processing unit electrically coupled with said headset and said music generation device for receiving a first input signal from said microphone and a second input signal from said music generation device, said processing unit comprising a transmitter for transmitting said first input signal to a remote receiver to be processed and an input to couple to a receiver for receiving a processed signal from the remote receiver, said processing unit configured to amplify and add an intended effect to at least one of the first input signal, the second input signal, and the processed signal to generate an output signal, wherein the output signal is transmitted to said headphone to enable a user to hear the output; and a user input interface coupled to said housing of said processing unit, said user interface configured to control the output signal of said processing unit by at least one of altering the amplification of the processed signal and at least one of the first input signal and the second input signal and removing at least one of the first input signal, the second input signal, and the processed signal from the output signal.