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what's going on guys this is john here with texas lunch and dinner bringing you a quick unboxing the kind of first look to the pv amp kit lengths cool little device that will allow you connect your guitar to your iPhone iPod Touch or your iPad just want to make a note that it will work on the iPad but it is geared for iOS 4 and the iPhone on the iPod Touch so you guys can see it's got a nice little velcro opening right here gives you a little overview of what the app looks like it was just actually released today there's two versions there's amp kit free and then there's amp kit plus which is 20 bucks we're going to review the free version so you guys ought to pay for that does retail for $39.99 I will post links to where you guys can pick this up and I'm really kind of excited to take a look at this looks kind of like there's nothing else like down the market this is double-a battery powered so hopefully it's going to take some strain off your iPod your iPhone save some battery life can also increase the performance so it's very basic this plugs into your iPhone and the matrix wire plugs in here and then you headphones speakers or lineout is located right here so let's go to jump into a couple quick sound so you guys can hear what this sounds like and what it does alright as we jump right into the app you guys can see like I said this was the free version we're gonna review the Plus version so if you guys want to check out make sure to stay tuned for that review and have that posted on our music channel but this is just a free version so you guys can go ahead and download this from the App Store and check it out so they have two options you can either tweak your tone and it was a lot of guitarists out there who like to tweak their guitar tone their sound there's your own setups portion of the app right here then there's the presets that already built-in so if you just want to jump in and get a good sounding tone right out of the way you can just select one of those so I'll get to those in a minute there's two more or three more tabs actually those recordings so that looks like they actually have some backing tracks you guys can hear those right now anything from ballad to jazz to even metal super metal beat for you guys out there going to stop those and then so that's to two things in here you have backing tracks and I believe you can also upload your own if you have drums that you program in your Cubase or whatever it is you can upload those there and then you can add gear there's also a store right here if you want to download the free version maybe you only want to buy the 6505 plus you can do that you have to pay the 20 bucks I do believe you get a discount but just in case you don't want to pay the 20 bucks for that you can just buy individual amps and effects and there's an info that has helped topics and everything like that from the output and presets and basically how to optimize your setup with the amp kit so now I started going to get into the sounds I have Josh on the guitar right now I'm gonna jump into their first one which is a crunchy type sound so probably like a vintage classic rock type sound let's go ahead and see how that sounds so it looks pretty common you can change the the microphone this is based off lesson 57 and then we got like it looks like an ointment right here so let's see if we can hear a tone difference I'll go and switch back and forth for you guys yeah so I mean that's really responsive even a lot of amp simulators that you find on your computer don't respond that well as far as changing the tone but you do hear a difference as far as changing the dials the EQ even the amp and the microphone itself so you have let's go to check out a couple more sounds so it looks like if you alter it automatically puts it into your my setups portion which is cool if the case you accidentally like come up to a sound that you like and you don't worry about losing it cuz it's gonna be there so P V I know there's a lot of metalheads out there who play P V let's go to jump into the nu metal sound and see how that sounds so that sounds pretty good I mean this is pretty amazing to have this all on your phone it's kind of really like I said amazing how far we've come from computer reporters I remember five years ago you can even get this idea computer so the noise gate actually works pretty damn well you got humbuckers you got active pickups like an EMG it kicks in it takes that noise away so very well from an app especially for a phone and keep in mind this is free all you got to do is buy the amp kit link which is 39 but like I mentioned in the unboxing it is double-a powered so it's gonna take some of the strain off of your phone your iPhone your iPod Touch and it's gonna do some of the processing there so let's go and get a clean sound for you guys who don't to hear the metal all the hard stuff so well here nice clean with some reverb and see how that sounds go ahead and tweak it real time I'm gonna bump up the volume a little bit so there you go I mean there you guys have it you guys can see like this is a free app all you got to do is buy the amp kit link which is honestly worth the money considering the price should pay for an interface you can record on it you have backing tracks that come with it you can upload your own and overall I'm definitely impressed with what PV and agile have done with this app so that's been our little mini review stay tuned for the full in depth review with the Plus version on our music channel I'll post a link right here when we get that up that will become active but other than that I want to thank you guys for checking it out again I want to thank Jack and Bradley over at PD for hooking us up with this and allowing us to test it out and we'll catch you guys later you