if you want to record this into this then stick around in this video i'll show you how
all right the quickest and easiest way to record your guitar into garageband on your iphone is
via the built in microphone every single iphone model from the very first one has had the ability
to record audio with varying degrees of quality this iphone 5's microphone for example doesn't
give particularly high quality results whereas the microphone on this iphone 10s is far more capable
apple is constantly improving their hardware so the quality of recording
you'll be able to get from your iphone's built-in microphone will depend on the model you have
when you're ready to record it's as simple as throwing your iphone in front of an amplifier and
hitting record bear in mind that you're not going to have a whole lot of frequencies to work with
when you come to mix your built-in microphones guitar recordings so maybe only use this method
if you're putting a rough demo together or are intentionally looking for a low-fi sound
there is no better feeling than when you perfectly capture
that killer guitar tone well apart from the feeling i'll get when you like this video
so go ahead make all my dreams come true and show me some thumb love down below
four years the most popular way to hook up your guitar to your iphone was with one of these the
irig was the king of super portable interfaces for a long long time making recording guitars
into your iphone as easy as plugging your cable into the jack input and then the irig's cable
into your iphone's headphone jack once apple nuked the iphone's headphone jack back when
it released the iphone 7 this thing's star unfortunately began to wane if you have an
old-school iphone with a headphone jack you can use the og irig and it still sounds pretty good
ik multimedia and other companies like apogee have since released updated refined versions of
the irig formula apogee's jam and ik multimedia's irig hd interfaces are lightning based so you can
connect them to any iphone model with a lightning connector these units provide much better sound
quality than the original irig retain the super portable form factor and are still
quite affordable i have the first generation irig hd here and it keeps things really simple
you just plug your guitar into the jack input and then connect it to your iphone via the lightning
connector this irig pro io works in much the same way except this model has an xlr combo jack so you
can hook up a microphone to it and record real audio as well as directly inputting your signal
finally you can grab yourself a fully fledged audio interface hook it up to your iphone
and record your guitars that way with an audio interface you're able to capture great quality
sounds into your iphone as well as depending on the model giving yourself more audio recording
options this budget friendly m audio m track solo has both an xlr combo input and a dedicated
instrument input 2. this means that not only can you record your guitar or other instruments that
connect via a quarter inch jack but also an xlr microphone if you want to record vocals or make up
your amplifier as well now this all sounds great but there are a few downsides to going the audio
interface route with your iphone not only are you sacrificing a lot of portability with this setup
most audio interfaces connect via usb a meaning you'll need to grab apple's lightning to usb
adapter to hook it up to your iphone and you should go for apple's official adapter
while there are far cheaper third-party options available apple have a tendency to render those
obsolete without a word of warning so suck it up pay the apple tax and move on yes it
sucks i'm well aware but going this route will save you some headaches further down the line
if you do plan to use an xlr microphone in your setup specifically a condenser microphone
that requires the use of your audio interfaces phantom power feature you run into another issue
iphones on their own don't provide enough power to an attached audio interface to use phantom
power i cover the issue of powering an audio interface with a lightning-based ios device in
the video right up there so check that out if you want to find out more with all that said
the sound quality you get from a proper audio interface might just be worth all that hassle
all right that's how to record your guitar into garageband on your iphone now that
you've got your guitars sorted you can find out how to make the most of your drums on ios
right here take care of yourself i'll see you next time bye for now