I know what you’re thinking; the last thing iOS devices need is another guitar input interface. It’s a fair point, but Apogee’s JAM is different than the rest. Instead of utilizing the headphone jack as a line in, the JAM connects digitally to your iPad 2 or other iOS device via the dock connector. This digital interface should prove to be the highest quality guitar input for iOS. Plus, it pulls double duty by working over USB with your Mac.

You might already be familiar with IK Multimedia’s Amplitube guitar gear modeling software. If so, then you know they know what they are doing when it comes to amp simulation. Amplitube 2 changed my view of guitar software. I used to think that Line 6 was the only company doing it right; I was wrong. Now Amplitube 3 really seals the deal by reworking everything, adding almost 100 pieces of gear, and adding more features to an already amazing piece of software.

IK Multimedia has really done it this time; they’ve completed the circuit between guitar and computer with the StealthPedal. Now you can have the best of both worlds: the versatility of computerized effects and amps along with the feel of a real expression pedal between you and the computer. IK Multimedia really made a significant improvement on the standard USB guitar interface by adding an expression pedal plus options. Trust me, guitarists won’t be disappointed.

If you have an iPhone, one of the most embarrassing moments must be when you’re at a concert, and all your friends are on their free phones taking videos, while you are on your $400 iPhone taking pictures. Then they ask you why you aren’t taking video, and you sheepishly respond, “My iPhone can’t do more »