Questions & Answers for Apogee JAM Guitar Input

Your sound card should be fine. As to the speakers just monitor the sound level and you should be fine. After a certain level of volume distortion takes place and could damage the speakers just like in the home or car. I personally prefer headphones because you can really hear what's going on...plus it takes stress off of your comp speakers.

Another thing to consider would be some external computer speakers or even some decent studio monitor speakers designed specifically for home recording. I record music into my mac and never use the built in speakers because they can't handle all of the mhz ranges. Hope this helps!

• Answered by Angelo K from Austin
• Mar 20, 2013
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I can't comment on the Line 6 but I had the iRig and Jam. I returned the iRig.

The Jam has built in analogue to digital converters and they are very good. It changes your analogue guitar signal into digital and then sends it digitally to the phone through the dock connection.

The iRig plugs into the headphone/microphone jack and uses the AD converters in the phone which aren't as good as the Apogee converters. The result was an unacceptable amount of hiss and inferior sound quality.

Hope this helps.

• Answered by Steve W from Sydney
• Aug 30, 2012
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As of July 15, 2012, the Apogee JAM works fine with Amplitube 2.5. Much less noise than the iRig!

• Answered by Bradley P from Portland
• Jul 18, 2012
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I was just asking the same question in the Apple store today. They said it does but you have to buy the $30 adapter because the mini and the newest iPads have the lightning connector.

• Answered by Alissa B from Prairie Village
• Nov 29, 2012
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Yes, it works with the lightning->30 pins adapter

• Answered by Benoit P
• Dec 8, 2012
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I'm using it with an iPad (1) and there is a noticeable latency... Don't know if this is inherent in the hardware or if it would be better on and iPad 2.

• Answered by Nick D from Stirling
• Oct 21, 2011
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Yes - this works- I have the adapter and it works just fine. There seems to be a bit of a bug in that you should plug in the output into the audio jack first then plug in the adapter then plug in the Jam.

That should get you going in any app.

Other thing is that I got the extended adapter and I can see that if you only got the smaller non-extended adapter then you may ruin access to the headphone jack.

Not sure about that.

Joe

• Answered by Joseph D from Woodbridge
• Oct 18, 2012
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The Jam requires an instrument-level input like what you would get with an electric guitar. If your uke has that, or a pickup that delivers that, into a 1/4" jack, then yes you will be able to plug it in.

As for sound and note arrangement, this is an analog-to-digital convertor, not a pitch tracking device like a guitar synth - so it'll put out whatever you put into it. Hope that helps!

• Answered by Dennis K from Portland
• Apr 3, 2011
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