If one wants the Geddy or the Squire tone, well, the SVT with with the Tube Screamer or the Distortion box will come close. The Marshall guitar amp paired with the 1x15 cab and the Fender comp can give some nice dirty tone ala Cream and Jack Bruce. The Bassman 59 is also nice, paired with the limiter and the 4x10 cab one can have decent clean headroom or vintage dirty tone. Also the Vox AC30 with 2x12, 15 or 4x12B cab is great for more over-driven British tone. I love the SVT amp paired with the 15 cab or the 4x12B cab. Here are my remarks for the apps (with focus on the performance on iPad):Īmplitube: The overall best app. One can use the play along without any hick-ups. Less noise and better performance in generally. In Ampkit I also bought the Bassman amp module.Īll apps work far better on the iPad then on the iPod gen2 even though all apps and specially Amplitube came with updates that resolved lots of issues on the iPod gen2. I also have almost all the effect boxes in both Ampkit and Amplitube. I also bought the Fender Pack for Amplitube which is really nice. Larger screen, more CPU power etc resulted to very good performance, good sound with very little noise. Later I bought an iPad, and man, these apps with the iPad rocks. The sound of the SVT amp in the Amplitube was almost as good as the SVT in the Line6, but the interface was way better. There also some gain issues/ noise, but still, I thought that the concept was promising. Now, as my iPod is a 2gen one (rather slow CPU) I had some issues to use the built-inn play-along options both apps had. My Vox ampplug did not match the sound or the other options these apps had. I found these apps great for use from the first time. Furthermore it is nice to have a pocket-amp to use while I'm traveling, playing in the hotel room, train etc.Īs I had a iPod Touch from before I decided to buy the Amplitube and later the Ampkit (pluss the iRig interface) as these apps are ridiculously cheap. I also have a Line6 Bass Pod XT pro.īut even the 20w combo is too load sometimes for practicing home. I've at home an Ibanez 20w bass combo, a sansamp PBDR, a sansamp Oxford pedal, an EBS multicomp, Bad Monkey, zoom 506 (used as tuner) and a Grombass fuzz/ distortion pedal. These apps are intended to be used when one must use headphones or when one have no access to an amp or a bass combo.
But these apps never intended to do that. Yes yes, they will never replace a SVT CL all tube head standing on a 8x10 cab or a nice SS amp such as the GK RB700ii pushing a 4x10 cab. Many consider these applications as garbage, waste of time, useless etc.įorm what I can say, these applications are simply revolutionary and amazing. I own and use all the 3 programs, and I use the paid versions.Ī few words about this kind of software.
#Ampkit link app software#
While there is a hot debate regarding the Tube VS Solid State amps (as usual!) I thought about writing a little review about the Amplitube, Ampkit and GK software for iPhone/ iPod Touch/ iPad.
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