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Not a great app from a company that makes some great amp plugins for DAWs- but this is NOT great- the iRig interface is pretty flimsy- I don't see it lasting long- it flops all over the place and makes it difficult to work with from an ergonomic point of view- not worth the money they charge-there are definitely better interface devices out there for hooking up a guitar to an iPhone.
The iPad and iPhone apps don't seem to be on parity in terms of features, and the fact that you have to pay for each platform really is LAME-This company claims to be so pro-musician- but this feels real sleazy. Also, I have to say the overall interface on the iPhone is cluttered, difficult to navigate, and cryptic-
It does sound great, but I'm not that desperate to turn my phone & pad into an amp unless it really is easy to use- or economically fair- it's nice you can check out the free version, but i'll be looking for other options until IK gets this together. And I'll return the iRig to Full Compass next week and get my 30 bucks back....Show lessRasputinsRevenge
Pay twice for both iPad and iPhone versions....why?
The fact that I have to buy both versions is ridiculous! Same goes for the upgrades. The iRig is way over priced for something that feels like it might easily be broken and obviously only cost about $1.25 to make...a cheap plastic shell, a resistor, perhaps a capacitor and jacks....that's it! This is not a highly sophisticated piece of technology....yet it'll cost you over $40!! There are some things that are nice, but the sound is not exactly quality. Wish Line6 would come out with something similar. Nickel and dimeing the customer is not going to gain any friends...offer a pack of effects or include all of them with the full version.
Obviously you need to address the looping error and fix it ASAP...would be nice to see IK at least acknowledge the fact that it exists and are working towards a solution.
I have a feeling that I've been charged twice for the 4 track recorder...once on the free version and once for the paid version. What is with all the double charging IK?!?! Ill gladly update my review if it's not the case or you give owners of the iPhone version the iPad version as well.Show lessLilguitar
4.5
Not a bad app. Of course it's not going to sound like you tube amp... Duh!!! But, for capturing riff ideas or practicing at the airport, or on the bus this works. Not real sure what some reviewers were expecting for free or a few bucks( some people would complain about being hung with a new rope... :p ) if you read the installed help section and know how to use your phone/computer volume and tone settings, you can get tone that won't sound like your first guitar and cheap digital amp.... I bought the iRig just to interface my guitar to my phones Strobotuner@ application, and decided to try the fee app. You get two effects and a noise filter( not necessary if your guitar is quiet to start with) just keep the effect & amp gains and levels under control and you get close to what your looking for... I play for a living and this combination works for what was designed for.... It does have little, occasional pops but that is the phone audio/ iRig compatability not the app. So Enjoy it, I do.... :)Show lessRazorc195
Very good practice device
I bought the PRS cables and the jam amp.
The jam amp, amps and cabs and guitar fx deluxe apps, While decent little guitar rigs, distort really easy, and feedback when using active pickups.
The free Amplitube rig has it's threshold as well, but with the noise gate feature, this is reduced quite a bit. Tone wise, through passive and active pickups, this thing rocks!
Using the PRS cables is perfectly fine, for those of you who bought them like myself. The amp is very responsive, and the distortion has a ton of bite.
I am not very impressed with the delay, but it does add a dimension to the tone, and makes it fun to play with. The tuner works great and is almost exactly in tune with my line6 podx3. The jam amp app is not.
If you want something to record an album on, this might not be it. But it goes much farther than other apps of it's kind. I plan to expand to the full version now that I have had a chance to play the free setup.
If you want a great practice amp, and free is your kind of price, this is well worth the money... And register to get the free distortion box!
I give it four stars, because it still does feedback a little, and the delay is not fully realized in this version.Show lessFiresheep67
Works ok.
Don't expect to actually use this in a live performance or recording, the tones are not that great and the responsiveness is not very realistic. The tone reminds me of a super cheap multi-effect processor plugged into a small stereo. That said, I was able to play the free version with no perceivable latency with an iphone 3g. the tuner and metronome seem to work fine. The screen layout is nice and the controls are intuitive. The delay, noise gate and distortion pedal are nice and it's great to be able to save your presets. This app, of course, would be useless without a special cable to hook up a guitar. I made my own, so I couldn't comment on the iRig addaptor. Given that this does turn your iphone into a multi-effect guitar processor for free, it easly deserves 4 stars. You can use a camcorder cable to plug your guitar in. The red plug of the camcorder cable is the "mic in", the yellow and white go to the amp or stereo. For your guitar input: Use a 1/4" female to RCA female adaptor to mate with the red RCA Jack on the camcorder cable.Show lessRyan 438573710
Doesn't work with Apple mp4 format songs
Although it lets you jam along with your existing songs, it doesn't work with songs in mp4 format, which is what iTunes uses by default for importing CDs. So none of my 5,000 songs works.
I was hoping to use Amplitube to jam along with the songs I have on iTunes. Unfortunately, it doesn't do that, what it lets you do instead is download up to 20 songs to play within Amplitube.
I went through the messy process it requires of getting on a computer that's on the same wifi network as my iPod Touch, going to a special Amplitube website, uploading a song file from my computer, downloading it into Amplitube, and "expanding" it within Amplitube, 20 times. The problem is, Amplitube doesn't seem able to handle Apple's default format, m4a. Instead of playing the song, each time I pressed the play button it just "expanded" it again. I believe it prefers mp3 files. Considering this app is designed for the Apple iPod/iPhone, this seems like a rather large oversight and renders the app unusable for me.Show lessDang it's hard to find an unused nickname
