http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigacoustic/
OK, who's gonna be the first to try this on their ukes? Looks interesting. I was not real impressed with the original iRig as it generated a lot of crosstalk on the headphone jack but maybe they've improved the circuitry over the past few years.
The price has been fluctuating on various sites over the past week (including Amazon and B&H).
I just ordered one from B&H Photo for $42 and had to pad the order to $49 to get the free expedited shipping, and should have it in hand by Tues Dec 29 if all goes well.
It's not a big deal to come up with $7 worth of items (I ordered a bunch of 1/4" female jacks @ $1.19 ea. that I will use for some other projects).
If they have still not fixed the crosstalk, it's going back.
Also if the mic sounds bad without the 'Amplitube Acoustic' app's modeling and other processing, i.e. direct into Garageband or Auria on iOS, then I might also send it back unless I can use either Inter-App-Audio or Audiobus to route the output of Amplitube into Garageband for iOS or to Auria for iOS.
I will post a follow-up and possible video once I have a chance to run it through it's paces for a full test.
If it works well (and sounds GOOD), this could be the holy grail that lowers the barrier to entry for those new to recording, instead of messing with external mics, mic placement, which preamp and interface to use, and how to set it all up, and the associated costs.
Another benefit from a device like this is that you can easily move it to another instrument without having to mess with velcro, double-stick tape or funtak putty since it mounts to the soundhole. I like this idea and hope it's not too big on a uke (it looks big on the uke in the photos)
Also - to answer another question that was posted, it says on the IK Multimedia site that the output jack is a headphone/line-out jack. This tells me that about the impedance and output voltage (low impedance [being 250 Ohm to 650 Ohm] and likely about 700mv to 1v peak-to-peak) and if your amplifier has an 1/8" or RCA input for an mp3-player, you could run this into your amp.
If you run it into the guitar input, you will likely not have enough volume or gain unless the amp is turned up very high due to the iRig Acoustic's impedance and voltage being LOW impedance and a guitar being more of a HIGH impedance conntection, typically 1kOhm to 10kohm.
Also, keep in mind that unless your amp is a 'stereo' amp, you will only hear a mono output. In this regard your iOS or Android device would function in place of any guitar effects pedals using an app like Amplitube, JamUp Pro or ToneStack and the plentiful effects therein.
Using one of the new pedals for mobile devices like the IK BlueBoard, you can have footswitch control of your effects just like a guitar pedalboard. Also if you have the LoopyHD app, I expect that you could use the BlueBoard to control it and have a nice looper setup on your mobile device that rivals many of the dedicated looper pedals that cost $$$ for the better ones.
But you don't need this iRig Acoustic device to use the IK BlueBoard if you already have an interface to get the sound into your mobile device. The BlueBoard works via BlueTooth wireless connection (like your earpiece) and emulates various keys from a QWERTY keyboard which you can setup a KEYMAP inside whichever app you are using and tell it which footswitches are assigned to which function....but I digress....sorry.
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