Amplitube iRig from IK Multimedia for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad

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  Daniel G. Lebryk

  07/07/2014

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  Nice hardware, not so great free app, August 22, 2010

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  Daniel G. Lebryk (Chicago) –
  
    
  
    

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  The iRig is a compact well-constructed piece of music gear. Incredibly simple, plug your guitar in the 1/4 inch jack opening, the short pigtail into the headphone jack on your iPhone, iTouch, or iPad, and then plug in a pair of headphones into the 3mm jack hole. Just couldn’t be much easier than this. I tore down the jack, and can report that the innards are solid – gold plated jacks, beefy 1/4 inch jack housing, and a small circuit board of surface mounted resistors.

  There’s something kind of cool about such a small portable device that can do these good things. With a nice pair of cans (I’m using V-Moda V-MODA Cross-fade LP Over-Ear Headphones (Gunmetal Black), the volume can get pretty loud. It’s fun to play without a huge amp.

  The downside to this device, the AmpliTube free App is kind of sad. The free version includes very few controls, reverb and overdrive. There are 6 presets each is distinctive and different. They can be tweaked, but not by that much. On an iPhone or iTouch, it isn’t very easy to “turn” the knobs; and only one channel at a time can be adjusted. It’s moderately painful. On an iPad, things are radically different, knob “turning” is easy, all the controls are displayed at once. It acts a lot more like a digital effects box.

  Sadly, I think the only way to get a really useful app is to purchase the twenty dollar full boat version. So that kind of brings the total to a fairly steep price. If you compare this to the price of a single pedal, I guess this is a bargain.

  The good news, you can take a dual ended 3mm plug, use a 3mm to 1/4 inch adapter, and plug this whole thing into your amp or a mixing board for recording. The sound is plenty clean enough that recording or an amp is doable.

  The killer combo, an iPad, the full version of the AmpliTub app, and jacked into a nice amplifier or cans. This is a good deal and works exactly as advertised.

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  Scott Pursley

  07/07/2014

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  26 of 26 people found the following review helpful

  
  The iRig by IK Multimedia, January 1, 2011

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  Scott Pursley (East Orange New Jersey) –

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  This review is from: Amplitube iRig from IK Multimedia for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad (Electronics)

  The iRig is a masterpiece of simplicity. You plug it in to the iPad and it works. No tweaking anything – it does exactly what it claims to do – turns the ipad or iphone into a pretty authentic replication of hardware guitar effects pedals. Its probably best suited for practice and songwriting, particularly if your song writing leans heavily on guitar tones. Plug in your guitar, slip on a set of headphones and start improvising – in no time you’ll find yourself tweaking sounds that are amazing. It requires a purchase of the Amplitube software for around 15 bucks – so you’re talking about a 50 dollar investment at the end of the day. But if you want to have the capability of sitting in your living room and wailing without disturbing anyone around then this is it.

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