Peterson 3.5mm - 1/4in iPhone/iTouch Adapter Cable White Review

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(More customer reviews)I think this is mainly intended to let you use your iPhone as a guitar tuner, and it probably works fine for that (I have a tuner so I don't need to use the iPhone for that purpose).
I purchased this little adapter so that I could plug my guitar into my iPhone 3GS and record my musical ideas in the early morning/or late at night without waking up everyone in the house (I use Moe's Notes for this purpose, great app!). You plug your guitar into one end, and plug the other end into the headphone/microphone jack on the iPhone. However when I ordered it, I didn't realize that it doesn't have a headphone jack or any output, so you can hear what you're playing into it! (I guess that's why it is one of the more inexpensive ones for this type of thing) I decided to hold onto it because for my purposes, I don't mind because I'm not really using it to do multitracking & can hear what I'm playing on the electric guitar without the need for an amp. However, if I wanted to record some instrument such as a keyboard that doesn't produce its own acoustic sounds, I would need to add a "y" cable to the mix to monitor what I'm playing. And if I do want to get into multitracking, I would need something that has an audio output so I can hear the other tracks I'm playing along with. So I will probably eventually one of the more expensive cables (or make my own) that do have audio output. However for now I am fine with this, the direct in sound quality is nice and clear (clear enough where I can import the recordings into Cubase or Cakewalk on my PC and do overdubs later if I so choose). For now I am happy with it, it's fine for recording simple ideas with an electric guitar or bass really fast - just plug in and go, you don't even have to mess with putting on headphones! I imagine you could plug a drum machine, guitar/keyboard and vocal mic into a small mixer and plug that into this, then monitor using the headphone jack on the mixer. But like I said if I need to get more fancy I'll get an input with audio out.
So anyway this is decent for what it is, just realize it has that limitation of no headphone out.


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