“If you just want to capture an idea, you should just be able to press one button and get great tone doing it”: How your phone became an essential part of your guitar rig

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Just think of Neil Armstrong having steak, eggs and coffee for breakfast before the Apollo II mission took him to the moon using a “supercomputer” with 0.043 MHz of processing power and 2KB of RAM.

And here you are, eating Cheerios and scrolling Guitar World on a phone more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer by orders of magnitude. Okay, there’s no app for taking you to the moon, but your smartphone could be a whole studio in your pocket, thanks to the wealth of modern guitar apps.