#44488 - 09/07/15 02:10 PM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: Justin]
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I have it and Jamup/Bias and the pod stuff on my iPad and the line 6 sonic port (the older one with/out the mic built in, but is 24/48 quality interface using the lightning port not the earphone jack) I think they all sound pretty good but for live use they require some type of foot control and a page tuner is a common one but a around $150.00 just aint worth the $$$... But for noodling and tracking there good.
IMHO there isn't an interface that has what is needed for the iPad to be a quality "live" rig the one thing the Sonic Port lacked was a true MIDI connection, I remember asking Marc about his setup but I think he said he used the earphone jack and some other connection for MIDI (please remind me) there was one that was from Alesis that never made it to production and one from digitech that was older and not 24/48 and no lightning connection, that had potential. That was around a year and a half ago when I was looking, so someone may have addressed the issue with a new interface but as I said before "If it is for the iPad it's way over priced"
Sorry I didn't have time to proof read this when I posted so I did a little editing.
Edited by jaminjimlp (09/08/15 08:54 AM)
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#44493 - 09/07/15 05:06 PM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: jaminjimlp]
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I have Amplitube 3, Guitar Rig 5, TH2, and Kuassa. For my taste, none of them sound as good JamUp / Bias. That said, I haven't tried the Orange pack, or any of the specialty packs. I did also buy the iOS version of Amplitube and it was truly terrible. I know it's all subjective, so I expect I may be in the minority here, but that was my conclusion after many, MANY (dozens... hundreds?), hours of playing and tweaking.
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#44505 - 09/08/15 03:25 PM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: Justin]
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After years of thinking Amplitube wasn't worth it, I took some time this weekend to explore and found it to be pretty cool actually.
If you're clever about it, you can use IK Multimedia's credits/jampoints to save some bucks, I recommend going for Amplitube, The Orange Amps Collection, The Mesa Boogie Collection, The Jimi Hendrix collection upgrade, the Soldano amp and if you have some credits left over, add the Bottle 563 Neumann mic - cool!
Anyone else have Amplitube thoughts? Got any tips on how to combine the jam points and credits, I have 136 jam points and 35 credits but can't figure out how to make it work?
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#44506 - 09/08/15 03:27 PM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: Marc C.]
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I have Amplitube 3, Guitar Rig 5, TH2, and Kuassa. For my taste, none of them sound as good JamUp / Bias. That said, I haven't tried the Orange pack, or any of the specialty packs. I did also buy the iOS version of Amplitube and it was truly terrible. I know it's all subjective, so I expect I may be in the minority here, but that was my conclusion after many, MANY (dozens... hundreds?), hours of playing and tweaking. I found bias the best of the ios route, but sgear is hard to beat, have you ever tried that one Mark?
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#44507 - 09/08/15 04:10 PM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: zacflame]
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I have Amplitube 3, Guitar Rig 5, TH2, and Kuassa. For my taste, none of them sound as good JamUp / Bias. That said, I haven't tried the Orange pack, or any of the specialty packs. I did also buy the iOS version of Amplitube and it was truly terrible. I know it's all subjective, so I expect I may be in the minority here, but that was my conclusion after many, MANY (dozens... hundreds?), hours of playing and tweaking. I found bias the best of the ios route, but sgear is hard to beat, have you ever tried that one Mark? cant agree more...for my kind of tone,s-gear beat everything i tried since now,very worth at least a try.
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#44515 - 09/09/15 08:47 AM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: Christophersad]
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S-Gear is one of the few that I haven't tried.
I've heard good things about it, but after discovering JamUp and Bias, I stopped looking, to be honest.
Many members of this group, I suspect, do a lot more studio recording than I do. I'm pretty much only a live player now that I no longer compose songs, so the iOS route works well for me, going straight into the board from an iPad / iPod. It's lightweight, compact, less noisy than my 11R, and sounds amazingly good. But, to each his / her own, of course.
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#44518 - 09/09/15 12:39 PM
Re: Giving Ampltube a second look...
[Re: TLTD]
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give sgear a shot guys
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