Questions & Answers for Apogee JAM Guitar Input

This does work well with my Gibson acoustic/electric. As far as a plain acoustic I'm sure you could get a mic cable with a 1/4 inch end and use it to record the acoustic. However a previous response said that this was not meant for mic's and/or vocals. But in my opinion I don't see why this wouldn't work.

• Answered by Christopher W from Studio City
• 19/03/2011
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Could be wrong but I don't think this interface is intended for vocals/mics.

Generally mics use a different connector and require additional power/preamp'ing to work.

Apogee IS coming out with something (a mic) called MIKE that is intended to direct plug into the iPad, with typical Apogee sound/transfer quality.

I'm planning on getting both and eventually the Symphony I/O mmmmm.

• Answered by Ross T from Eliot
• 13/03/2011
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I can't comment on the Line 6 but I had the iRig and Jam. I returned the iRig.

The Jam has built in analogue to digital converters and they are very good. It changes your analogue guitar signal into digital and then sends it digitally to the phone through the dock connection.

The iRig plugs into the headphone/microphone jack and uses the AD converters in the phone which aren't as good as the Apogee converters. The result was an unacceptable amount of hiss and inferior sound quality.

Hope this helps.

• Answered by Steve W from Sydney
• 30/08/2012
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Yes, you will be able to record that into Garageband. You will need either an adapter for the 1/8 inch jack on the left side of your computer or an after market sound card to plug your cello into. M-Audio is a company that makes affordable, entry level sound cards that you can plug into a USB port and use to record your cello. Alternatively, you could buy a microphone and hook that into the 1/8 inch jack and record that way, though you will probably get better results using the sound card since you are investing in a cello that is meant to be used with one.

• Answered by Chris G from Newark
• 14/05/2012
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I recorded a track yesterday using a USB keyboard, a Korg K49, into the USB camera connector, triggering the keyboard, drum and bass sound in GarageBand on the iPad, no problem whatsoever. The only trick was powering the keyboard from it's own adaptor, as the iPad can't provide enough power to run the keyboard over USB.

• Answered by Geoff W from Melbourne
• 13/03/2011
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Yes, it also works with apps like Auria for iPad, Amplitube, Cubasis and JamUp.

• Answered by Rob C from Nashville
• 02/12/2013
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Yes - this works- I have the adapter and it works just fine. There seems to be a bit of a bug in that you should plug in the output into the audio jack first then plug in the adapter then plug in the Jam.

That should get you going in any app.

Other thing is that I got the extended adapter and I can see that if you only got the smaller non-extended adapter then you may ruin access to the headphone jack.

Not sure about that.

Joe

• Answered by Joseph D from Woodbridge
• 19/10/2012
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Yes, JAM works with all Core Audio compliant iOS Music Apps.

• Answered by Rob C from Los Angeles
• 27/11/2014
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