Welcome!
The PRS JamAmp app lets you slow down and loop sections of songs so that you can analyze and learn to play those tricky guitar parts. Use it to write, learn and practice riffs to go along with the songs that you have uploaded to PRS JamAmp from your computer.
PRS JamAmp also acts as a mini practice amp when you plug your guitar into your iPhone or iPod Touch 2nd Gen using the PRS Guitarbud™ the guitarist interface™ – guitar-to-iPhone cable.
Importing your songs
Unfortunately, iPhone apps aren’t allowed direct access to the songs in your iTunes library. It’s simple to get music from your computer to the PRS JamAmp application – you don’t even have to install any software.
Here’s what to do to load your audio tracks into this app:
- Make sure your phone is connected to the same wi-fi network as your computer.
- NETWORK_INSTRUCTIONS
Playing live guitar through your phone
Go to the ‘Amp Effects’ tab and turn on the live effects. The phone will now act like a guitar amp using the input from your phone’s microphone. Turning on live effects a guitar plugged in will probably cause some horrible feedback! To get the full benefit of JamAmp you can use the PRS Guitarbud™ cable, which lets you plug-in your guitar and headphones/earbuds, so you’ll be able to practice without needing a separate amp.
Please note that the live audio won’t work on first-generation iPods, because they don’t have a microphone!
Listening to songs
Once you’ve imported some tracks/songs from your computer into JamAmp, you can tap on a song to go to the playback page and listen to it.
This page lets you zoom around the song’s waveform, add markers at interesting moments, and repeatedly loop sections simply by tapping the area between a pair of markers.
It has controls to slow down the song without affecting its pitch, which is handy for figuring out those fast sections.
There are also pitch controls to let you adjust the song’s pitch without affecting its tempo. Jimi Hendrix fans will appreciate this – on many of his songs, he tuned his guitar down a half-step, so by nudging the pitch up by 1 semitone, you can play along without having to re-tune your own guitar!
When you’re on the play screen, you can see a quick summary of all these controls by tapping the ‘i’ button in the top-right of the screen.
Links for further information
For more support & help: PRS JamAmp app Support Web Page – use the form on this page to send questions to the Bond PRS JamAmp support staff.
To get tracks, songs and riffs to use: PRS Cables JamAmp Media WebPage.
For more info: PRS JamAmp amp Infomation Web Page
Learn more about PRS Cables and PRS iPhone products and support:
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Note: PRS Cables, PRS JamAmp iPhone app and PRS Guitarbud are made and supported by Bond Music Research LLC and Branded PRS under an exclusive licensing agreement. All support and responsibility for these products should be directed to Bond Music Research at www.prscables.com
2 Responses
January 8th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Am unable to connect to the IP address given by the app. Am on the same wifi network, using win XP, tried IE 8 and Firefox, no luck.
I verified that the IP address was correct for my 2nd gen Ipod touch, so, either the “server” is not responding, or the port (5678) is blocked?
Please advise, as this app is just about useless to me without tracks to play.
January 9th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Did you make sure to use your ip address with a “:” between the ip and the port?
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