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- Small & Compact & Affordable interface for guitars, basses or microphones with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
- Impedance matched for correct signal detection
- Can be used with any application requiring an audio input.
- Will not interfere with charger connector.
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I think this is mainly intended to let you use your iPhone as a guitar tuner, and it probably works fine for that (I have a tuner so I don't need to use the iPhone for that purpose).I purchased this little adapter so that I could plug my guitar into my iPhone 3GS and record my musical ideas in the early morning/or late at night without waking up everyone in the house (I use Moe's Notes for this purpose, great app!). You plug your guitar into one end, and plug the other end into the headphone/microphone jack on the iPhone. However when I ordered it, I didn't realize that it doesn't have a headphone jack or any output, so you can hear what you're playing into it! (I guess that's why it is one of the more inexpensive ones for this type of thing) I decided to hold onto it because for my purposes, I don't mind because I'm not really using it to do multitracking & can hear what I'm playing on the electric guitar without the need for an amp. However, if I wanted to record some instrument such as a keyboard that doesn't produce its own acoustic sounds, I would need to add a "y" cable to the mix to monitor what I'm playing. And if I do want to get into multitracking, I would need something that has an audio output so I can hear the other tracks I'm playing along with. So I will probably eventually one of the more expensive cables (or make my own) that do have audio output. However for now I am fine with this, the direct in sound quality is nice and clear (clear enough where I can import the recordings into Cubase or Cakewalk on my PC and do overdubs later if I so choose). For now I am happy with it, it's fine for recording simple ideas with an electric guitar or bass really fast just plug in and go, you don't even have to mess with putting on headphones! I imagine you could plug a drum machine, guitar/keyboard and vocal mic into a small mixer and plug that into this, then monitor using the headphone jack on the mixer. But like I said if I need to get more fancy I'll get an input with audio out.
So anyway this is decent for what it is, just realize it has that limitation of no headphone out.
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I bought this adapter in order to use my iPod to record the headphones output from my band's sound board at live gigs. It takes a 1/4" TRS or TS plug and turns it into the iPod's TRRS mic jack. I then use the built-in Voice Notes app to record the output and work with it later. The adapter is simple and seems fairly durable; it has strain reliefs built into the cable. One thing: I believe that the iPod's jack only allows monophonic recording, meaning that if you send a stereo signal into the adapter, it will be summed and recorded as a mono signal. That's not a problem for my usage pattern, but you might want to know about it if that matters to you.After using it for a while, I also bought the app for Peterson's iStroboSoft, a digital strobe tuner. I like using it, but it's very touchy, and depending on the instrument I'm using, it doesn't always pick things up well. I suspect that's more about the instruments and less about the adapter, though. I don't know whether iPod mic jacks are highor low-impedance, and I don't know whether this adapter does any impedance matching, although I suspect it doesn't.
Bottom line, it works. I can get good-quality archive recordings of what the band sounded like, and I can use my iPod as a high-quality digital tuner. That's worth the price of admission for me!I use this with the iStrobosoft tuner for the iPhone. Works great in getting the signal directly to the device as opposed to using the internal microphone. My only negative is that it would be nice it have an output jack so headphones/line-out could be attached simultaneously.You cannot beat the performance or the price of this cable. You can plug in just abount any microphone with a 1/4 connector at the end. You can also use most any xlr microphone, so long as you have an xlr to 1/4 cable. I have used with garageband and the video camera app on the iphone 4s and it works flawlessly. I suppose you can use this to plug an instrument in as well, yet there isn't really a way to monitor what's going into the phone, but for a microphone you can't beat this deal!
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