3.5mm adapter

Is the usb c to 3.5mm adapter different in some way to the lightning to 3.5mm adapter? I have a guitar interface with 3.5mm output that works perfectly on my older iPad with lightning but the new iPad Air with usb c does not recognize it as a microphone input.

iPad Air, iPadOS 14

Posted on Feb 4, 2021 1:36 PM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2021 11:52 AM

I thought I would update this in case anyone has a similar problem or sees the update and can contribute.

I got the usb c adapter working with AmpliTube, it’s a quite noisy and needs a noise gate to work but it’s useable.

Now I can set AmpliTube as my input device in GarageBand and it also works, if I switch back to the guitar direct input nothing but nasty feedback. This makes me think even more that this is a problem with how GarageBand handles inputs and microphones on the usb c iPad not a problem with the adapters themselves. It could probably be easily solved by having an input selector in GarageBand.

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Feb 6, 2021 11:52 AM in response to boredpickingnamesthatarnttaken

I thought I would update this in case anyone has a similar problem or sees the update and can contribute.

I got the usb c adapter working with AmpliTube, it’s a quite noisy and needs a noise gate to work but it’s useable.

Now I can set AmpliTube as my input device in GarageBand and it also works, if I switch back to the guitar direct input nothing but nasty feedback. This makes me think even more that this is a problem with how GarageBand handles inputs and microphones on the usb c iPad not a problem with the adapters themselves. It could probably be easily solved by having an input selector in GarageBand.

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