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How do you improve upon something so revolutionary that it changed the world? Volume levels vary from instrument to instrument and from device to device.
And while the original iRig provided superior sound, it was limited in that you were unable to customize the input gain level to your particular setup. With iRig 2, you get an input gain dial that gives you the power to ensure high-quality sound in every situation. This means that you'll be able to perform at your best no matter whether you're connecting a wailing 3 humbucker electric guitar or a jazzy archtop to your iPhone. Just plug into it like you would into a stompbox or amplifier.
Want to take it to the stage? This opens up a whole world of opportunities when paired with AmpliTube for iOS , IK's powerful guitar and bass multi-effects processor. It provides you with a vast library of meticulously modeled virtual stompbox effects, amplifiers and other gear that you can use as a part of your physical rig when you're jamming with friends, at a practice session, in the recording studio or performing live.
Moving on to effects, you can daisy chain up to three stomp boxes that, out of the box, cover most needs. They include a few distortion pedals, delay, chorus, flanger, phaser and a wah among others. A novel feature of the wah pedal is being able to tilt the device to simulate rocking a wah pedal, however in practice this may be difficult while also playing the guitar. The attention to detail in the pedals themselves is outstanding. They are modeled after various real-world effects pedals and as a result are instantly recognizable.
Spinning the knobs to change settings is surprisingly satisfying and only in a few instances is there artifacting as the effects are adjusted. Once an effect is in place, however, it sounds superb with no noticeable clicks or pops or undesirable distortion. You can also set up to 36 presets to quickly recall specific effect and amp combos. The most surprising feat of all, however, is accomplishing this with such low latency. In general, there is a cost to doing some things in software, as there can sometimes be a delay as the effects are applied to the audio signal.
As a result, in high-latency situations you may not hear the effected guitar until a split-second after you've played it, causing problems for the guitarist. While the iRig doesn't offer zero-latency, it's low enough to not be perceptible. The killer feature, in my mind, is the ability to upload songs to play along with. The app allows you to upload up to 20 mp3's via your web browser on your PC for use in AmpliTube. To satisfy my need to play some slow blues music, I fired up GarageBand and created a Magic GarageBand track, removing the lead guitar part, and saving the composition as an mp3.
Once uploaded to my device, I queued up the track and started riffing along with the song. You can adjust the volume of the track, which helped get the guitar sitting with the accompaniment properly. With a library of songs created in similar fashion, I could relax on the couch with my guitar, headphones and iRig and practice over and over again without disturbing anyone. Though the app performed well and has not crashed or become overloaded even on my slower iPhone 3G, there was one problem with the experience that I would like to highlight.
In some instances when combining distortion effects and listening with my studio headphones, I heard what IK Multimedia's engineers referred to as cross-talk in the iRig interface when using certain output devices. The net result was that the output mix bled into the high-gain input causing that mix to be processed by the effects. In instances where you are only playing guitar, this wouldn't matter.
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