100% Digital. 0% Crosstalk.

AmpKit LiNK HD is based on USB digital audio technology, providing high fidelity while eliminating crosstalk and feedback. It's perfect for AmpKit's authentic high gain amps.

Features:

• The only charging guitar interface: optional AC adapter charges your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch while you play - a must for gigging!
• Stays connected: uses cable with dual locking connectors, rather than relying on friction fit - it just can't fall out.
• Input and Output: LiNK HD is not only guitar in, but also headphone and line out. Ideal for live shows and recording!
• Control at your fingertips: control knobs for guitar input level and headphone output level. No need to launch an app.
• Mac and PC: LiNK HD works as a guitar interface for your Mac and PC, too. USB cable included.
• Built solid: sturdy jacks and cable connectors. Rubberized, non-slip coating feels great and reduces sliding.

AmpKit LiNK HD will be available in the second quarter of 2012.

• iOS 4.3 or later
• iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, iPad or iPad 2, iPod touch 4th and 5th generation
• Mac OS X 10.6.4 or newer with USB port
• PC Windows Vista or newer with USB 2.0 port

AmpKit 1.2 is a huge release featuring next-generation tone and simulation improvements that deliver by far the best-sounding, most realistic guitar tone on iOS. With dual-stage amp simulation, convolution-based cabinet simulation, adaptive input compensation, a significantly upgraded Noise Gate, and solo and mix output shaping, V1.2 gives you massive tone improvements regardless of your playing style.

There's also a slew of exciting new gear in AmpKit 1.2:

• Budda® Superdrive 30 Series II dual channel amplifier.
• Fargen™ Olde 800™, Super Collider™ and Hot Mod™ Baby Blues amps.
• Rocktron® Zombie Rectified Distortion® and Cottonmouth Fuzz® effects.
• Sonic Edge J&J Overdrive and Tumbleweed Clean Boost & Compression effects.
• Two great new models of classic high-gain amps, the Sultan Rack 88 and the Uber Xtreme 101.

Be sure to check out AmpKit's Summer '11 Pack which bundles all the new gear in V1.2 -- 6 amps, 6 cabinets and 4 effects.

The tone and simulation improvements in AmpKit 1.2 include:

• Dual-stage Amp Simulation: Doubles the simulation fidelity of all AmpKit amps on newer iOS devices including iPhone 4, iPad 1 & 2, and 4th generation iPod touch.
• Convolution-based Cabinet Simulation: Advanced technology (used in high-end desktop amp simulation software) for highly accurate cabinet simulations that produce even better, more realistic tone and dynamics.
• Adaptive Input Compensation: : Intelligently restores the bass frequencies lost through the headset circuitry on various iOS devices. The result: an amazing increase in the fidelity of the incoming guitar signal, and much richer amplified tone, regardless of amp and playing style.
• Solo & Mix Output Shaping: Toggle between Solo mode, which pumps up bass frequencies for the best possible tone when practicing and playing for fun, and Mix mode, which gives a brighter tone when you want to mix with other instruments for recording or playing with a band.
• Next-generation Noise Gate: Even better control of your favorite high-gain amps and pedals.

The amazing new features in AmpKit 1.2 include:

• Multitasking Support / Background Audio: AmpKit can now keep operating and produce audio when running in the background - perfect for looking at scrolling tab notation in TabToolkit while continuing to play using your favorite AmpKit setup.
• Recording Session Mix Down: You can now mix a wet guitar recording with its backing track. Repeat the process to mix in additional guitar tracks.
• Effects Only Mode: In AmpKit 1.2, you can turn off amp and cabinet modeling, and create setups with just effects pedals. Use AmpKit as an effects processor connected to your physical guitar or bass amp.
• Effects After The Cab: In addition to positioning effects such as delay and reverb after the amp, you can now also position effects after the cabinet - total control to place effects virtually anywhere, including places where physical effects pedals could never go.
• Feedback Protection: AmpKit offers the full-strength, high-gain amps and pedals demanded by metal and other high-gain enthusiasts. Just as with real amplifiers, high-gain play in AmpKit brings the potential of feedback, especially when using guitar interfaces that, unlike AmpKit LiNK, have a high level of crosstalk. In AmpKit 1.2, we’ve added Feedback Protection, which detects most feedback and automatically brings it under control.

Agile Partners and Peavey Electronics are proud to bring you AmpKit, the ultimate amps, effects and recording app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and AmpKit LiNK, a high fidelity electric guitar interface.

AmpKit is available in two versions:

AmpKit is a free app, available on the iTunes App Store, that comes with a Peavey ValveKing amp (clean and very-high-gain lead channels), two ValveKing cabinets (4x12 and 1x12), two pedals (Noise Gate, Elevenizer overdrive pedal), two mics (Workhorse 57 dynamic mic, Germann 87 condenser mic), and a built-in Noise & Feedback Filter.

AmpKit+ is a paid app ($19.99 in the US App Store) that includes everything in the free version PLUS the following additional gear at less than half their individual prices: Peavey 3120 amp with clean, rhythm, and ultra-high-gain lead channels and matching 4x12 cabinet; Colonel Vintage amp paired with matching 4x10 and 1x12 cabinets; Vintage Brit amp with matching 2x12 cabinet; and distortion, fuzz, compressor, chorus, phaser, flanger, reverb, and 10-band EQ pedals!

In both AmpKit and AmpKit+, an amazing array of additional gear modeled after real-world equipment is available for purchase through an in-app Gear Store. AmpKit has more than twice the number of components of other apps, with more gear coming!

Features:

• 100 predefined amp and pedal setups
• Copy AmpKit recordings and paste them into other apps. Paste audio from other apps into AmpKit as backing tracks or dry guitar audio. AmpKit supports both Sonoma's AudioCopy/AudioPaste standard and Apple's General Pasteboard.
• Instant access to your iPod music library so you can jam along
• Easily create and save an unlimited number of custom setups, with a dozen or more active pedals in each setup
• Setup sharing, favorites and locking and quick jump from one favorite setup or preset to another
• Record as you play: AmpKit creates both “dry” (guitar signal before effects are applied) and “wet” (guitar signal with effects applied) recordings
• Ability to "reamp": re-record a previous session, applying a new amp and pedal setup
• Realistic simulations of high-gain amps (e.g., Peavey ValveKing and 6505+) that you can listen to with headphones (be sure to use AmpKit LiNK which has special crosstalk / feedback reduction circuitry)
• Mic positioning control
• Ultra-low latency (i.e., not even noticeable)
• The same high-precision tuner and metronome technology used in GuitarToolkit
• Upload dry recordings for reamping, or your favorite songs and backing tracks to play along with
• Download AmpKit recordings to your computer, email recordings, or share using SoundCloud

 

AmpKit LiNK is a high fidelity interface for plugging an electric guitar, bass, or other instrument directly into the headphone jack of an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch1. It is the ideal companion to AmpKit.

AmpKit LiNK's powered crosstalk reduction circuitry enables AmpKit to reproduce the tones of high-gain amplifiers (e.g., Peavey 6505+) while virtually eliminating feedback when using headphones (unpowered guitar interfaces suffer from feedback when using headphones).

AmpKit LiNK Specs:

• Connects to iPhone/iPad/iPod touch via 1/8-inch cable, automatically detected by iOS
• 1/4-inch mono input jack2 for electric guitar, bass, and line level signal sources
• 1/8-inch stereo output jack for connecting headphones, powered speaker, or PA system
• Works with most recording, processing and tuning apps, including GuitarToolkit

AmpKit LiNK is available through selected dealers worldwide for only $39.99/€29.99 MSRP.

1Except first-generation iPod touch.
2AmpKit LiNK is not designed to be used with non-standard or ribbed 1/4-inch connectors.

Audio pros know that microphone selection is another critical aspect of amp tone, and yes, AmpKit again gives you total control - not only of the microphone you use but also microphone positioning! AmpKit includes for free the Workhorse 57 dynamic and the Germann 87 condenser. Six additional mics are available in the Gear Store from rugged dynamic mics that can handle whatever volume you dish out to amazing condenser mics with the frequency and transient response you need. All with ultra-low latency.

Besides powerful, ultra-low latency amp, cabinet, pedal, and mic simulations, AmpKit also includes all the tools you need for a complete guitar studio.

• Recording & Re-amping: AmpKit not only allows you to record as you play, but it also creates both “dry” (guitar signal before effects are applied) and “wet” (guitar signal with effects applied) recordings. This enables another amazing feature of AmpKit: re-amping, where you can take a recording and re-record it using a completely different amp and pedal setup. Once you’ve made a recording, you can upload it to your computer, or post it directly to SoundCloud. The result is an incredibly powerful guitar recording studio!
• Backing Tracks: Upload your favorite songs and play along, or record your own backing tracks! It's an amazing way to learn and a lot of fun too!
• Tuner & Metronome: AmpKit includes the same high-precision tuner and metronome technology used in GuitarToolkit, and both the tuner and metronome are visible right from the setup screen with no need to switch screens.