AmpliTube CS App Reviews

I was excited to download the JH Marshall amp and with eager anticipation plugged in multiple times over a month... to no avail, it sounds identical to the stock amp set to clean. No tweaking on any settings make a difference- twist the gain up, may as as well say a prayer, no change in sound. Id rate as a 1 and the app is not completely worthless. However its a lot of $ and hassle not to be able to mess with your tone.

This is a joke. I can understand maybe charging one price for a app but come on. I bought a irig off EBay and downloaded this free version to check it all out. Figured I would like to play with the different amps and was excited to use the studio portion. Well everything costs more money. Want to use the studio? $27 or so. Wants a different amp? $8 a amp. Want to use different drums? More more more. You could end up spending a fortune. I wish they would just bring the price down to a more reasonable price for a phone app and just make it a one purchase deal.

Can you guys please update the tuner so that we can adjust the frequency to whatever we want? We know that A =440 hz is the world standard but we dont want to be forced to stay at 440.

Total piece of crap. Cant get any sound.

Major problems. I just wanted an app to practice clean guitar while hearing drums. Had to buy a style pack for drums ($4,) that didnt work initially. No response from tech support, no way to actually talk to a human being. I had to delete the app and re-download it. When I finally got it to work, I realized that it seems there is no way to adjust the BPM of (one of only the 7 or so) drumbeats without painstakingly dragging and dropping every one of their pre-programmed drum parts out of the screen, which takes a couple minutes every time I want to just play the guitar to a loop! All the while, Im forced on the free version of the app to play through a processed reverb-nightmare of effects they call "almost clean." To just hear my own guitar without the silly effects, I have to buy an amp model?! This app and the cheap plastic toy that I paid $40 dollars for known as the iRiiiiiiiiiiiiig took up most of my day. Im a pro musician, and have also been an audio engineer. I cannot believe the counterintuitive interface, the shameless, insipid prompts to purchase additional features while using the app, and on top of that, IT CRASHES often! I cannot believe how low the standard is here, with so much potential to be a great tool. How did this company let this stuff slide right through the initial prototypes?! The actual sounds of the drums are not bad, albeit when speed is changed, they took a big short-cut here, with painful results. I feel like I just paid $45 bucks for a Dollar-Store flashlight that wil not work. Sorry, I am ticked off.

Previous purchases cant be transferred so very disappointed

I knew it might be noisy, but this Irig will be returned to Guitar Center and Amplitude deleted from my phone. Cant accept this much noise, hiss and crackle.

For Christmas, my kids bought me this company’s iRig BlueBoard (foot pedal), iRig Midi Interface and iRig Microphone together with a suite of relevant software (AmpliTube, etc.) Nothing worked. And, perhaps I should explain that for 40 years I was a professor of mathematics and cognitive science at Northwestern, UMass, Purdue, and Indiana Universities - as well as being a software developer and experienced user of computer-based technologies. I’ve now retired and play a harmonica in several local bands (blues, country, rock, bluegrass). I mention this only to make it clear that I’m not an inexperienced user of these kinds of technologies. When I first experienced problems with IK Multimedia’s gadgets and software, I contacted their tech support people, and all they did was to tell me to read their manuals. I did this. And, to prove that I read the manuals thoroughly, I went though one of the manuals and make line-by-line editorial comments pointing out how nearly every sentence was either: (1) unhelpful, (2) completely unclear, (3) incomplete, or (4) completely wrong (in the sense that what was said simply wasn’t accurate). Then, I once again simplified my questions and contacted IK’s tech support people. This time, I did get a few suggestions about possible solutions to my problems. But, once again, virtually every sentence in this message was either: (1) completely unclear, (2) incomplete, or (3) completely wrong (in the sense that what was said simply wasn’t accurate). Also, the tech support person stated that some of the problems that I confronted could only be solved by purchasing more equipment that performed functions that IK Multimedia’s web site claims that their products are intended to do. Next, I tried going to IK Multimedia’s web site to see if there were other ways to get technical support. The contact numbers that were given reported that “the tech support lines were down.” And now, three days later, “the lines are still down." I’ve now seem to have no options except to ask for my money back on these purchases. … If you want to get a quick verification of what I’ve said, try downloading the things that are called “users manuals” for IK Multimedia’s products. The shortcomings will be obvious. These “users manuals” are not really users manuals at all. The simply describe what the products claim to do, but they give almost no information about how you (the user) could actually do any of these things. Also, these “users guides” contain a bunch of nearly identical photographs which contribute almost nothing to the meaningfulness of the text. … In more than 40 years of using a lot of computer-based tools, I’ve never encountered anything this bad in terms of overstated claims, completely useless “users guides”, and dismal tech support.

Purchased an amp and effect but they didnt work. I had to uninstall and reinstall the app and now it works great. I wish apps purchased for free version could be used on pay version of amplitude.

I have recently purchased the iRig at my local Guitar Center for $19.99 figured it looked fun. I downloaded the free version of this app on here and have noticed it comes with 3 pedals and 1 amp. So I purchased another amp and pedal and have had nothing but an amazing time playing on my Stratocaster with my headphones on for hours. The only thing I have encountered so far was the recording section which does not allow me to record without any drum beat. When I start my recording it automatically starts playing drums when I dont want it to. I would def. recommend this to anyone looking to save spending thousands of dollars at guitar center, try this app first to find your sound, its well worth the money.

The new update make a new look better & more options. If you are a bass player you have two options for bass cab free 1x 15 / 8x10 & one bass head. You got more options to mix your record on the EQ section. The cabs & heads sound much better with the new update.

FOR THOSE CHECKING THIS OUT THINKING TO BUY IT THINK AGAIN THERE ARE APPS CHEAPER THEN AMPLITUBE THAT HAVE BETTER TONES WASTE OF MONEY DONT GET

On IPhone 4 it still crashes at startup and wont even let you get into the app

Still unable to use with iPhone 4. Crashes at start up. I love the app for practicing, when works. I hope you all work this out. Thanx

I waited for a sale and got the Orange pack inside of the free Amplitube. $6.99 is worth the upgrade. Might try the recording DAW later on. This free app and others can hold you over depending on your requirements. Its great for recording riff ideas. Im using an iPhone 4s and first edition iRig.

The guitar amps seem to do really well. But the bass amp and cabs are pretty crummy. Cant get decent tone, just sounds muddy. No issues using other amps with same bass.

This is by far the most incomprehensible piece of garbage Ive ever used as far as software goes. Nothing is intuitive. None of the features work unless you pay money. The free features malfunction nonstop. Ive had it for one day, and recorded three projects, all of which have crashed. The only piece that actually recorded well wont play. Its five minutes long but will only play the first 8 seconds and the last two minutes. Piece of junk.

Update: I reinstalled the app and the knob fuzziness cleared up. I agree with another reviewer that the bass guitar sound is often muddy. It is sometimes a little distorted on the extreme low end, this could also be the iPhone limitations. I think it must lose something between the cabinet and the mic in their sample. Also it would be nice to bypass the cabinet and just use the head. It has a funny frequency in the bass sound that is hard to EQ out. I do like the Ultimate Tuner thats in the app but could care less for the drums and recorder for now. They should have put the effort in making it a great bass app before moving on to drums and recording. It might be good for professional use like some of the other apps I have for Bass Guitar. I just havent tried it yet on stage.

It wont even open on my iPhone 4

This simulator is great for tube amp players who have always wished for a headphone-friendly practice option. Leaps and bounds cooler than GarageBand. The free version kinda screws itself by sounding too good as-is to necessitate buying the upgrade bundle.