Originally published in Beatweek Magazine 12/2010. http://www.beatweek.com/iphone/ipodiphoneitunes/7689-review-amplitube-irig-for-ipad-and-iphone/

Looking for a way to play the guitar while travelling or a way to play guitar without waking up your neighbors? Enter the IK Multimedia AmpliTube iRig, an instrument adapter for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. Setup is easy as plugging in your guitar instrument cable and headphones to the iRig and running a guitar app. The adapter features a quality 1/8” cable connected to an input for a ¼” instrument cable and a headphone output jack.

I tried running the iRig with the free version of AmpliTube, which simulates a guitar …

My review on the “I am T-Pain” app is in the latest issue of iProng magazine. Check it out at:
http://www.iprong.com/ipodiphoneitunes/app-review-i-am-t-pain/. I really enjoyed the app with its auto-tune feature. Here’s a really good video of how it works, with musicians testing it out for the first time.

Ever wanted an easy way to learn how to play the guitar with music from your favorite bands? The iPhone app Jammit: Classic Rock Vol. 1 will help you learn songs with an intuitive way of teaching on the iPhone. The app features CD quality original recordings of three songs: Alice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen”, Foreigner’s “Dirty White Boy”, and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”.

One of the key features is the ability to control the volume levels of the guitar on one track and the rest of the instruments (vocals/drums/bass) on another track. For instance, you can turn off the …