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The page outlines many different ways to hook up your guitar to your iDevice. The number of ways are growing and there is a link to a larger review.

…I’ve been looking high and low for not only cool apps on my iPhone that I could use with my guitar, like effects apps, and amps, but also for devices to easily attach my guitar to the iPhone. What I’ve found is that there’s plenty of options out there, but there’s also some important things to know. This page helps explain these.First you can connect your guitar to your iDevice with specialized adapters (they have a special advantage which I’ll mention in a moment), simple cables, through outboard effects gear, preamps, or direct boxes. Yep, that’s a lot of options, and the list grows as companies are filling the need in the guitarist’s heart to turn the iPhone into a portable studio.So before we move on, why connect your guitar to your iPod or iPhone to start with? Well, where do I start. There are a ton a great apps out there designed just for your guitar. These range from amps to special effects to drum machines, and multi-track recorders. In short we’re quickly moving to iDevice as an all in one…

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Ways to Connect Your iPhone/iPod to Your Guitar with Adapter

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We had a chance to go hands-on with a pre-release version of IK Multimedia AmpliTube iRig, a small interface for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch that allows you to plug a guitar or other instrument directly in to your mobile device.

…AmpliTube LE version includes 5 stompboxes, 1 amp and cabinet and two microphones for $2.99. There’s also a totally free version that comes with 3 stompboxes, 1 amp and cabinet and two microphones.We were able to test out the full range of sounds, amps, cabinets and effects for our review. Amps included clean, crunch, lead, metal and bass and each featured the complementary range of controls you’d find on the actual hardware: volume, bass, treble, tone and reverb depending on the amp model. The stompboxes included flanger, phazer, octave, noise filter, chorus, distortion, envelope filter, wah, overdrive, fuzz and delay with the ability to apply up to three independent effects at the same time.All of the effects have easy bypass modes accessible via an interface button, and some offer unique control mechanisms. The wah pedal for example can be operated simply by touching to depress the pedal further, or you can switch to tilt mode to use the accelerometer of the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to adjust the level…

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iRig Turns Your iPhone or iPad Into an Guitar Stompbox !

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