PocketGK - Bass Guitar Amp App Reviews

The ability to play along with songs from your iTunes library and the slow-downer feature are worth the price alone. Ive been practicing some Stevie Wonder tunes lately and theres no way I could have learned Nate Watts nuances without these features. Wish there were more options on the tones available but these ones suffice.

Love this bass amp. However, the song trainer looping mechanism is a bit funky (not in a good way). The looper can be better. Please, please, please add a metronome! I have not found any bass amp apps with a metronome.

Its simple and worked perfectly until the new operating system.

Since I upgraded to the 5s, this dont even work even with the 30 pin adaptor cord!!!

Good sound, easy connections - the only thing they need to do now is make it easier to import songs and switch between tunes. Kind of clunky process right now.

Works perfect and I can jam along with any tune. Works with A-Jam just fine. Wish the app had effects like chorus, flanger, reverb and echo. For $5 I cant really complain. Other than that, great for practice, clean and dirty recording.

Nowhere near as good as amplitube. I thought Id give it a try because of some of the reviews. Biggest let down is the music feature...theres no volume adjustment so you cannot turn up the music. LAME!

Really impressed with the tonal quality of this amp model. It has a great round wound sound. Ive been trying to get this out of other apps with only some success. It has great fullness and presence. Sound really cuts through. Money very well spent. Using it with Apogee Jam without any issue.

Love this app BUT it doesnt seem to want to work with IOS7!! Glad I kept it on my old iPod, an older version but the old version on the iPod still works great. Any updates coming to fix this serious problem?!?!?!?

The app is working but as soon as I put in my iRiff port and plug it into my bass, the app doesnt work.

I installed this on my iPad and I couldn’t get it to work. The developer was responsive to my issues, despite an initial automated email saying they were unavailable. According to the developer, Apogee Jam ONLY works with headphones, and not the Apple headphones - they have a mic. Only headphones without a mic. And both the Jam and the headphones must be plugged in before you launch the app. After plugging in appropriate headphones and killing the app, then relaunching, at first I could only get it to work if I ran GarageBand or AmpliTube first. After a reboot it seems I can launch PocketGK first and have success. I haven’t tried all of the features yet, but so far I’m not impressed with the sound. I wish I had spent the money on amp models for AmpliTube instead of this app.

For someone like me, who wants just to play along on bass with my iTunes music, this is the best app around so far. But it is buggy and the features are not well implemented. For example, it will crash when it hits a song that it doesnt like. This corrupts the database and the program will never run again. You have to delete it entirely and re-install. To access a song you want to play along with, you have to scroll through your entire playlist. No shortcuts. There is no shuffle mode,and often it will skip to another song randomly. It looks like this app hasnt been updated in awhile. Too bad. If the bugs were fixed it would worth five stars.

Was a great app, but doesnt work with ios7. Too bad!

I have been using the Pocket GK app for a few years now. I find the app to accurately reproduce the song, regardless of speed played back. I had to learn about 60 songs to play in a country/pop band, and another 40 for a jazz/funk band in the last two years. Since I dont read music (and have been playing bass about 4 years now) this tool is my GO TO when I have to transcribe a new bass line. I basically learn the gist of the chords in real time, and then I can slow the song WAY down if necessary to learn the intricate (or even softer) parts. Its also a great app when our band plays a song in a different key. I can change pitch up or down two semitones and it accurately reproduces the song in that key. Whats nice when practicing is I go for muscle memory on songs. By practicing in the key my band plays the song in, I have fewer mistakes when playing live. I like the fact this app interfaces directly with my ITunes library. AND the developer is approachable. I had a problem with functionality deprecation in iOS 8, but when iOS 9 was released Apple fixed their issue and the app works like it did from day 1! Finally, I play live with an epifani head and cab, and have played with a Gk head before. I feel the tones from the app reproduce the Gk tones quite well! If you are considering this vs another - get this app. You wont be disappointed. (But be sure upgrade to iOS 9!). And, for the record - I dont know the developer nor do I have a vested interest in his nor in GKs success. This is probably my favorite app on my entire iPad.

Used to be the best app. Hasnt been an update since iOS 6. Sliders dont work now. Great while it lasted. Sent email about app not working and received a,"yeah, it hasnt worked since iOS 8 upgrade." That was about 6 months ago. So it doesnt sound like they are going to work on a fix.

Im using iOS 9 and not getting any audio from the app. Doesnt seem to be responding at all. Also tried multiple audio interfaces and still doesnt work.

This app is old and its starting to show its age. But in terms of sound quality it still soundly beats amplitude and jamup pro. The app is simple and doesnt have a lot of features but it just nailed the sound. Plug bass in and listen with headphones and its even better than the real gk rb400 I used to have.