[Don Plumley]

I've been doing some reading and there are two ways to connect your guitar to your iOS device - through the headphone connector or the dock connector. There's apparently quite a large quality difference using the dock connector, and naturally those devices are a bit more spendy. You can go from free to $40 using the headphone jack (iRig) to the clearly superior Apogee ($99) and GuitarJack 2 ($149).

I'm curious as I might play with headphones - and this seems easier/faster than pulling the amp out of the closet, futzing with pedals, etc. Oh, and I sold my old pedals as they were basically collectors items.