AmpKit 2010
Hello there,
Let me take you back to the year 2010, the year I bought the iPhone for 4, the mobile phone I used for nearly 7 years. Why ? Because of the AmpKit app.
I was introduced to AmpKit by Kheir AGT, the live vocalist of my project Chugga Ritual. The AmpKit is a phone app developed by a company called Agile and Peavey for Apple. It is an amp that lets you play guitar with it. It gives you about one or two amp sims with one or two pedal sims, changeable mics and speaker cabs and you can buy more amps, pedals, mics. I absolutely love this app like crazy. I recorded songs using the app, I even let a guitar player use this app for a live jam session. This AmpKit lets you record riffs in the app itself and you can re-amp i.e. change the sound of that riff for as many times as you want. Hey, there were times when I was commuting to work and I was re-amping my riffs, always trying to make the riffs sound nastier or chunkier or tighter. It was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot about guitar sounds in that manner.
Sadly, the AmpKit did not get a lot of promo, unlike its more popular rival, the AmpliTube app, a similar app which probably came out earlier. I had the AmpliTube app too on my phone but I like the AmpKit way better. I have not been using an Apple phone for thge last 6 years, so I don’t know what actually happened to the AmpKit now.
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The AmpKit was another gateway for me appreciating digital amp/pedal emulation. Without it, I would never get to appreciate the bliss of guitar plugins for DAWs. I miss my AmpKit.
My 3rd position winning entry.
It can do clean sounds very well too.
Alex Skolnick of Testament testing the AmpKit.
