Jim Hanks
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Booli? DownUpDave? photoshooter? Any news or reviews? I'm dying over here!
Booli? DownUpDave? photoshooter? Any news or reviews? I'm dying over here!
Jim.........no Amplitube Acoustic app for android, only mac. So I am sitting here with it kinda dead in the water.
Whoa ho ho, if that's not a full review, it's close enough for most purposes! Very helpful! :shaka:
Thanks for confirming my suspicions about the crosstalk. That's almost a deal breaker for me. "Multitracking through the headphone port" totally killed the original iRig for me so I'd have to find a way around that. Probably I would have to use two devices - one for playback and one just for recording - which is obviously clunky but might be worth it.
It would be a lot nicer if they came out with a "pro" version that essentially does what you did with the iRig-to-NRG-to-CCK setup just in a single device.
For anyone using a Mac with 10.11.x and iOS 9.x, you can actually record audio of the iOS device directly via USB/lightning even though the device you want to record is attached to the headphone port.
How to do this:
1.) Attach you iOS device to the Mac via the USB cable, and go to Audio Midi Setup (it's in Utilities).
2.) Choose Window Show iOS browser.
3.) You should then have you iOS device there with an enable button.
Enable it, and the audio of the device will go to the Mac via USB.
I've tried it with my Ukulele attached to an original iRig to my iPhone and my Icon iPlug-M iOS Microphone attached to my iPad (also attached to the headphone port).
I could then record both at the same time in Garageband by making an aggregate device in Audio Midi Setup, and using the Enable Multitracking Recording there. It seems to create a lot cleaner sound then when you go to an analog interface again.
Booli
Thanks very much for your help and detailed info. You are correct about me being timid or shy with regards to this kind of stuff. I have ZERO knowledge or experience with recording. Not exactely true, I have recorded exactely one piece on my phone. I am not versed in computers or computer techologies, apps etc. etc. So this is all overwhelming as I have no clue about any of this type of thing
I did plug the mic into the phone jack and recorded in the Voice Recorder app that came with the phone and it works so that is a start. I will look at the other apps you mentioned. I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to help me.
Wow, this turned into a great thread with lots of useful info. Thanks to Jim for starting it.
It's hard to add to Booli's thoughts but as he alluded to, Amplitube Acoustic is basically a simplified version of Amplitube. It appears to be aimed at people who want to capture and create acoustic sound so it's light on the effects. It has 3 built-in amps which also seem to be geared toward "clean" sound. That being said there doesn't seem to be much you can do with Amplitube Acoustic that you can't do with Amplitube. I only mention this because the iRig Acoustic mic isn't at all dependent on the Acoustic software. The only thing the Acoustic software does have is the "calibration" tool which is essentially a wizard to automate the settings for compression and clipping.
I did not know about this iOS device function, so thanks for sharing the info. I've used Aggregate Audio devices before with great success.
So to confirm...(please indulge me )
1. You have the iPhone acting as 'input #1' with the iRig, and the iPlug-M acting as 'input #2' on the iPad.
2. Each iOS device is connected to your Mac via USB to the dock connector on the device.
3. You have created and enabled an Aggregate Audio device that combines both iOS audio paths so they are exposed to Garageband as a single device with 2 input channels.
Is this right?
How are you monitoring the audio? via the standard audio-out jack on your Mac?
How is the latency, if any?
Thanks in advance for clarifying. I may have to try this too.
Can someone please tell me how you get the vocals and uke to pan so it's not left ear right ear, thanks.
You can then indeed monitor via the mac, hope that clarifies it.