What’s the easiest way to do this?

[dk_ace]

Here’s what I want: simple, inexpensive solution to plug a guitar into that gives me some modeling and allows me to play a track through it off my iPhone. Track might be an mp3, YouTube vid, something from a music sharing app, etc. Need to be able to play it through headphones of some sort. I don’t want to have to drag a computer along.

What’s the cheapest, easiest way to do this?

Basically I just want a super simple portable practice rig meant for playing along with stuff on my phone to prep for gigs. I’ve got too little time right now where I’m set up at home with my main rig through a MacBook for this kind of thing. I’ve got some time traveling that would be ideal for this if I had a simple way to do it.

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[holoholo]

I would like to know how you time travel

 

[sashimi]

Line 6 pod express connected to iphone via usb c?

 

[DieSchmalle]

Fender Mustang Micro Plus
Boss Katana Go

 

[dk_ace]

I would like to know how you time travel

This is what happens when I’m in a hurry and don’t proof read. If I could travel in time, I’d go back and fix that typo…

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[dk_ace]

Fender Mustang Micro Plus
Boss Katana Go

That micro plus looks like it might be the ticket, wasn’t aware of it.

Looks like katana go is discontinued.

Thanks!

 

[Desertdweller]

Wouldn’t an iRig connector and something like BiasFX do the trick, or is that too 2015 of an answer?

 

[dk_ace]

Wouldn’t an iRig connector and something like BiasFX do the trick, or is that too 2015 of an answer?

I have one, but I don’t think I can easily play along with other files and run a modeling app. Maybe there’s an app that could support this that I don’t know about though?

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[PLX]

iRig

Had one many years ago..

 

[dk_ace]

Ok it looks like there is a way to do what I want with irig maybe, I’ll dig it out tonight and try again using amplitude or something with background audio enabled.

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[Alex Kenivel]

Spark Go
Nu-X Mighty Plug series

They both have been my travel mates along with a Hofner Shorty.

 

[Desertdweller]

I have one, but I don’t think I can easily play along with other files and run a modeling app. Maybe there’s an app that could support this that I don’t know about though?

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Hmm, you should be able to. It’s been a few years, but I played a gig once where I used Bias and Auria using AudioBus to play them both through an iPad. You should be able to use AudioBus or maybe there’s a more modern variant that would allow you to play Bias into a multi track app like Auria, GarageBand, or Cubasis, and import an mp3 as a separate track.

That’s how I did it anyway but it was a long time ago and only was 1 gig where I tried that.

EDIT: just did a little searching, looks like AudioBus is still popular, and a newer app named Aum is similar but with more routing options and power.

 

[dbagchee]

That micro plus looks like it might be the ticket, wasn’t aware of it.

Looks like katana go is discontinued.

Thanks!

I heard some rumblings that Katana Go might be coming back into stock (undiscontinued?) - I picked one up before they stopped shipping them and it does exactly what you want. The Katana Go app even has a cool feature where you can load in youtube videos and mark points in the video to loop or change presets - definitely handy for practicing/warming up. The Fender Micro plus seems to have a very similar feature set.

 

[dk_ace]

Hmm, you should be able to. It’s been a few years, but I played a gig once where I used Bias and Auria using AudioBus to play them both through an iPad. You should be able to use AudioBus or maybe there’s a more modern variant that would allow you to play Bias into a multi track app like Auria, GarageBand, or Cubasis, and import an mp3 as a separate track.

That’s how I did it anyway but it was a long time ago and only was 1 gig where I tried that.

EDIT: just did a little searching, looks like AudioBus is still popular, and a newer app named Aum is similar but with more routing options and power.

It didn’t work out. Irig and amplitube don’t play out over Bluetooth audio and there’s no headphone out. So that left me playing off my iPhone external speaker. Not impossible but I can’t hear the details of the track well enough to learn something. Oh well…

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