I bought an apogee Jam 96k to play through my iPad as I'm stuck in hotels many nights per week for work. This got me thinking about using my mac at home with speakers and an interface instead of my princeton at home. I connected the apogee jam and came out of the headphone socket to a small denon all in one amp and cd system with a pair of bookshelf speakers. I used GarageBand for recording. The sound was really poor. What would I need to do this properly so that I didn't need an amp. I am interested in recording myself but the main focus would just be good tone listening live through a pc as if it was my amp. Have I missed the point. Any help advice on what I would need and what it would cost appreciated.
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Bit like studio monitoring headphones versus commercial in ear type jobs..
The Amplitube Ampeg SVX Bass pack is pretty decent I thought. There was an update in the past year to a new version of Amplitube, but I've not tried that. The demos sounded pretty good though!
It sounds like the first thing to try would be some demos of different amp modelling software, S Gear or the latest Amplitube could be a good start.
My setup is guitar straight into an interface (PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL) into my Windows 10 PC running Studio One 3 with S-Gear. Output is via some Eris 4.5 Monitors.
It's a very modest setup but it does the job for me at home. Throw in a set of good headphones and you've got silent playing/recording too. S-Gear can also be used as a standalone application so if you just want to jam along to some YouTube tracks, you just fire it up, chose a preset and you're ready to go. No need to launch a DAW.