Reddit reviews IK Multimedia iRig 2 Guitar Interface Adaptor for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad (Ipirig2Plgin)

Check this out, It does a pretty good job for a pretty low price. And it's easy to keep in your guitar case.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T631UTC/ref=twister_B00YXGRSXE?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

"iRig" ... Can't use that without headphones.

Hey!

I spent a good portion of my youth playing in bands of the punk variety. My advice might be a bit dated since it's been about 10 years but hopefully this helps!

I wouldn't be too considered with 'breaking into the business'. I would say have your son focus on your first point of forming a band or at the least, jamming with other people.

If he hasn't already, have him uploading his playing to youtube or soundcloud. This could be original songs, covers, or just riffs he comes up with. For the actual recording, you can do a lot with an iPhone by picking up something cheap like an iRig to record with.

As for the actual meeting people, have him talk to kids at his school as there are usually other kids that play and most likely others that are into the same style of music. You can also use Craiglist to find people looking for others to jam with but your mileage will vary. Try hitting up local music stores as they will normally have a board up with bands looking for people.

Going to local shows is another great way to find people, even more so if your son is decently outgoing. I would check out the following venues for shows:

Chain Reaction - http://allages.com/shows/
The Observatory - http://www.observatoryoc.com/events
Slide Bar - http://www.slidebarfullerton.com/calendar
The Wiltern (in LA) - http://www.wiltern.com/
This show is pretty far away but has bands that are in the Blink/Green Day style - http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?eventId=7083045&pl=sdobservatory&dispatch=loadSelectionData&REFID=art

If your son is decent and starts meeting and jamming with people in the local scene, he should be able to work himself into a band.

Sorry for the word vomit, hope it helps. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Record from a budget of $29 to $500 with iOS

$29 - Option 1 (more if you don’t have iOS)

Assuming you already have an iOS device, all you need is this adapter (and the lightening to headphone jack adapter your device came with.

IK Multimedia iRig 2 Guitar Interface Adaptor for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad (IPIRIG2PLGIN) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T631UTC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_KcZTDb8XJH0A4

This adapter allows you to record directly into your iToy with GarageBand. There are a few sounds and amps you can simulate with the included iRig software or GarageBand.

$199 - $299 Option 2

Get a better amp. The Boss Katana 50 and above or Line 6 Spider V 30 and above have a built-in digital output in their USB ports that allows connection to an iDevice directly. You get all the benefits of the amp modeling and effects in your recording; plus a neat new amp.

Can I use an iRig 2 to record a split from my rolls for IEMs to my phone?

It seems like the fear of "performing" in public is really going to be a stumbling block for you to do what's most important, and that's to concentrate on feeling the guitar in your hands while playing. As others have said, the difference in pickups will be minimal in your price range, and at your level. So, get a portable headphone amplifier. Vox makes a range of them for about $40 each. Or, you could get a similar knockoff at Monoprice for as little as $8. Or, for that same $40, you could get yourself an iRig2, use your phone as a portable stompbox, and almost certainly get better quality than either of the above, with multiple amp models and effects in software. The advantages are several, as you can now feel comfortable jamming away at full volume (to you), while no one more than 6 feet away has a clue what you're playing. Bring your own short patch cable and picks, and there's no waiting for a salesman to plugin to an amp for you, then hover nearby whilst you noodle, making you nervous. You can now feel confident in saying "I've got a portable rig I'm going to plug into, thanks". Even pro-level musicians might have a phone or tablet rig they use to sketch up ideas, or when traveling. Feel free to look annoyed if you have to remove your headphones/earbuds, and/or ask for time to yourself. Then, go off into your own little world, play the heck out of those girls, and fall in love. You'll know the right one when you meet her. Or feel her up for the first time. Getting creepy now - better stop.

Seeing how we only have a single guest on our show, I use an iRig. I give them my phone number and they call in.

The call routes directly from my iPhone into DAW and outputs into our headphones. This also allows each of us, (three hosts), to talk to them directly as well. The quality of the call is amazing and one of the best purchases I've ever made audio wise.

The Irig2 is the clearest

I have not tried this and have no idea what latency is like but this kind of thing is available

https://www.amazon.com/IK-Multimedia-interface-adaptor-Android/dp/B00T631UTC/ref=dp_ob_image_ce

Well it depends how you use it. You could run your guitar straight to it and use amp sim/looper/effects/drum machine/etc. Or you could run the sound through your rig first and then run it to your iphone(make sure that the signal that goes into iphone is same strength than what goes to headphones, not something that would go to the amps speaker, so use headphone out line out if it has one).

I love blocs wave looper, it also has its own library of recorded loops, some of the drum and percussion loops are really nice to jam on.

I like dm1 drum machine on ipad, there is an iphone version also and im sure its also good.

Then if you want something more complex there is this http://www.akaipro.com/product/impc-for-iphone

Im not sure which guitar amp sim app is the best, because bias fx is ipad only. But for guitar speaker simulation(which i suggest using or at least testing if you like it even if you use amp sim), there is this really wonderful and simple app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fiddlicator/id813106474?mt=8 , and its free. The neat thing about it is that you can load impulse responses on it that simulate different guitar speakers. You can find tons of them free if you google "free guitar cab impulse responses" or something like that. They are much more realistic than the speaker simulation on the amp sim apps. It can also load impulses that simulate reverbs in different spaces, has really nice eq, low/high pass filters, delay and reverb. A must have app for guitarist imo, but it doesent simulate amp, just the speaker element and microphone and its position(or echoes of different spaces, you could get the reverb that you would get playing cranker up amp in taj mahal for example).

There is bias amp for iphone. Its not the full blown bias fx, its an app that lets you build your custom amp and tweak pretty much everything you could in a real amp. With audiobus(maybe AUM could do it also, it has other nice features, app worthy of checking out), you could make a custom amp in bias amp and use impulse responses of speaker element in fiddlicator and have kick ass amp simulated. But there is no pedals there. However, you can get the distortion from the amp and reverb/delay/eq from fiddlicator. Reverb and delay should come after distortion anyways. But there is this app JamUpPro that made by the same guys than bias stuff and you can load the amps you made in bias amp on it. It also has recording and stuff, but it has in app purchases quite a bit(like the recorder), and its pretty expensive, but it seems to be in discount atm. Ampkit+ is worth checking out, so is tonestack and amplitube. But the bias amp to fiddlicator via audiobus would be straight forward and good setup. For the whole amp sim thing.

There is this app called audulus3 that lets you build pretty much any effect you want, its meant for synth stuff, but can be used with guitar. If you add that in the audiobus signal in effect slot, you could get pretty much any sort of sound from your guitar. BUt it takes some really indepth fiddling, so if you dont want that, you want some other app.

Altispace is a really nice reverb app, it also lets you use impulse responses to simulate echoes/reverb in different spaces like fiddlicator, but lets you tweak with the reverb much more.

You should just look around for effect apps(there are so many so different ones that its best if you just look around) basically to replace pedals that you wont get if you use audiobus to route bias amp -> effect app -> fiddlicator.

Im not sure if it works on jamuppro, but in bias fx on ipad you can put fiddlicator on the signal chain inside the bias fx, so there is no need to use audiobus. If it does work on it, definitely get jamuppro, while its still on discount.


If you want to use it just as an "pedalboard" before your sound goes to your amp, i suggest getting either audulus 3 if you like to tweak A LOT to get that the perfect effect from simple to something out of this world. If you just want some regular pedals, ampkit+ is nice for that, just turn off the amp and cab sim and use the pedals on it. You might want to check these out as well:

https://itunes.apple.com/fi/app/frobulator/id993500586?l=fi&mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/fi/app/nebulizer/id1007409385?l=fi&mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/fi/app/muckraker/id1018267293?l=fi&mt=8

Hooking up your guitar to the iphone is better when the device connects through the lightning port than through headphone jack. But the cheaper things like irig2 connects through the headphone jack. Irig2 is fine if you need cheap, it also has a nice feature that lets you run the audio through the iphone and out from connection that goes to amp, while with some others you might have to fiddle with getting correct plug from iphones headphone out to amps in. Audio interface would be ideal, but you would need the camera connection thing besides the interface.

Some products you might want to check out:

http://www.amazon.com/IK-Multimedia-interface-adaptor-Android/dp/B00T631UTC

http://www.thomann.de/fi/steinberg_ur12.htm

http://www.thomann.de/fi/vox_amplug_i_o.htm

http://www.thomann.de/fi/ik_multimedia_irig_hd.htm

http://www.thomann.de/fi/ik_multimedia_irig_pro.htm

http://www.thomann.de/fi/steinberg_ur22_mk2.htm <- you could hook up some midi synth on that or some other midi devices

http://www.thomann.de/fi/apogee_jam_96k.htm

Those larger audio interfaces would be much better, especially if you use amp sims and al lthat stuff and not just run it to your amp. But running the guitar effortlessly and cheaply, irig 2 would be best imo. I dont know about the vox amplug io, just noticed it exists and looks like worthy of checking out.

iRig 2
or if you want to go for slightly better quality
iRig 2 HD

Of course the best choice is to get yourself a proper audio interface, but that's likely to cost more and is going to take a bit more setting up.

Sure! Admittedly the equipment I'm using is all cheap quality, but I figure I can replace components over time as I get better at playing cello. Right now I'd just like to know the cause of the hissing or how I can easily filter it out.

I'm using this Chinese brand cello ("kinglos")

I can't find any information on the built-in pre-amp, but this is it

It leads into this Neewer noise gate

Into this Kustom KXB1 6 inch 10-Watt amp

Then my recording is done with this Nady SP-4C Dynamic Neodymium Microphone

Plugged into this IRig 2 interface

Which leads to my Google Pixel XL Android phone

All of it is connected with these cables

the setup looks kind of like this

And here's a quick audio sample (please excuse the horrible playing, I haven't been at this very long)

IK Multimedia Audio Interface IPIRIG2PLGIN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T631UTC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_PxERCbDE6R31V

The mixer has 1/4 inch output, so connect a cable from the mixer into the irig2 and then plug the irig2 into your phone. You can control everything right from the mixer. Sync is perfect and sounds good.

How about something like this? http://www.amazon.com/IK-Multimedia-interface-adaptor-Android/dp/B00T631UTC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453912308&sr=8-1&keywords=irig

I don't know how well it works for the bass, but if you have an iPad, you should definitely consider getting the iRig. It lets you connect your guitar/bass to your iPad, and if you have GarageBand on it, you can basically start recording full songs and editing them right there.

I am not an Android person and the wiring is different but it looks like the iRig 2 is a viable option. Someone else may suggest a variant. As I said, I use a Tascam iXZ, myself.

https://www.amazon.com/IK-Multimedia-interface-adaptor-Android/dp/B00T631UTC

On the back of your UMC. there is a 1(L) jack and I assume that is what the front jack 1 hears. Use a 1/4" TS cable to take the signal into the iRig input. Either use the headphones out output on the iRig and take that into the jack 2 on the UMC or the 1/4" output if you have one.

This is part of my similar setup. Others may suggest better iRigs. Too many damn models out there to keep track of.

https://i.imgur.com/TcXZEjy.jpg

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