Apple picker When choosing accessories for your iPhone or iPad, you don't have to stick to the waters of original Apple products. There are many accessories on the market from other reputable brands that can turn your tablet into a mixing console, for example.
It will not be so much about various speakers and headphones, although these are of course necessary things for a musician. We will rather focus on how an iPad owner can equip a home rehearsal or recording studio. All you need is a few simple devices, some applications and of course an iPad.
What can your tablet be used for? The basic function can be sound recording, either through a microphone or, for example, from an electric guitar. A wide range of programs from the App Store will serve well to process samples recorded in this way. If that's not enough for you, you can turn the iPad into a full-fledged mixing desk that can handle a variety of different channels.
Singers and guitarists
Musicians of all kinds cannot do without quality audio recording. You can connect the Apogee MiC 96k condenser microphone to any device with a Lightning connector, but also to devices with an older 24-pin connector or via a USB cable to Mac computers. The microphone can record high-quality 96-bit sound with a frequency of XNUMX kHz.
The Apogee Jam 96k device can record the same quality sound. But this is intended for passionate guitarists, who can connect their iPad to it on one side using the included Lightning, 30pin or USB cable, and on the other side their electric guitar via a standard guitar cable with a 1/4" connector. Then all you have to do is strum the strings and record everything with a suitable application, such as GarageBand.
Apogee JAM 96k iPad Guitar Input
We record, we mix
Not everyone needs a guitar, someone needs to record the whole band and the singer at the same time. The Alesis IO Dock II will serve this purpose well. You can connect the iPad to it either via the older 30-pin connector or via modern Lightning. On the other side, there can be a whole range of musical instruments from guitars to keyboards to microphones. The IO dock is equipped with two XLR connectors and a classic jack connector. You will then control the individual channels as you wish. You can monitor the result in connected headphones or play directly into the microphone.
Docking station ALESIS IO DOCK II
If you don't have a high-quality voice or the ability to play smooth chords, you might be more pleased with a mixing console based on the iPad. The Alesis iO Mix is equipped with four XLR/TRS inputs, which allows you to connect up to four different instruments of all kinds. Each of these four channels is equipped with its own slider, peak indicator and two-band EQ. You can immediately listen to the result of your mixing in connected headphones (thanks to the Direct mode function) or connected stereo speakers (output for left and right channels). Of course, the mixed sound can be recorded immediately and played back later.
Bonus: I listen to what I created
Of course, you can listen to everything you've recorded in any headphones that you can easily connect to the iPad. In addition, the mentioned mixing devices can play in speakers, so they will also serve for professional music production. But maybe you want to download your creation to a music player (iPod of course) or mobile phone (iPhone of course) and play it at home in the living room. A wide range of music docks, often already with a built-in audio system, will serve you well for this. For example, the following Pioneer model.
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