Hi Norman, I've not seen or heard of Rock Prodigy until you brought it up here, looks interesting.
Armandearl wrote:
I use my headphones when I practice through my ipad, but if you hook it up to some decent speakers you can get some good sound. I even have a decent cable so i can use it for a gig, I normally go into the PA from my phones out. I use the ampkit+ app, you get some good amps and effects that you can buy. Just a pitty it gets expensive.
Yeah, at home I've been plugging it through the AUX input of my Bose Sound-dock thing, sounds great. Whatever the reason for the trashy distortion with the internal iPad speaker, it doesn't happen through the Sound-dock thingy. I've also run it through the band PA, messing around during breaks as opposed to using it in a proper band context, and it sounded really really good!! Yes I guess you could say it gets expensive, but you know, spending R150-or-so on the Jimi Hendrix Amplitube pack to get a Marshall Super Lead-ish amp and a Univibe to play around with - plus a Silverface 65' Deluxe Reverb model, something like that, and other effects, like a Fuzz Face clone - is cheaper and easier than dropping serious cash on the real deal.
One thing though: there is a slight, discernible latency between hitting a note and hearing it come through the speakers, maybe it's the Apogee Jam interface, it really is a very small thing, and certainly not enough to ruin the enjoyment of using this as a convenient practice or mess around rig.
TheFourthDimension wrote:
Out of curiosity, why would you want to play through your iPad?
My main amp stays at the practice venue, and I've got a spare at home but I don't really have space enough at home to permanently have a rig set up and ready to plug in and play. I wanted to get an iPad primarily for music/guitar related stuff, like keeping all my song lyrics on so I can finally ditch and awkward ring-binder/files. But I'd also read-up on a lot of different music/guitar apps, like Amplitube, Garageband, Gigbook, Songwriterspad and others, and figured for practice, theory study, modelling and playing with effects and ideas and what-not, multi-track recording capability... plus then Guitarist Magazine and other publications cost a fraction on the iPad that they do in CNA...
All in all the iPad is an excellent device for a whole host of music-related stuff, and being able to use one as a convenient, small-footprint, and decent sounding but quiet rig to play through for me is very handy indeed!
