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!
