Deplike is a guitar effects app for mobile used by 1.5 million guitarists on Android and iOS. It lets you connect your electric, acoustic or bass guitar into your smartphone/tablet and rock it with 15 realistic tube amp simulations and 21 popular effects pedals. Plus, you can also save and share your guitar presets, and try more than 25.000 presets made by the Deplike community.

Number of people playing the electric guitar through their phones is growing because of its simplicity and mobility. Connecting guitar to an Android phone or an iPhone like a guitar processor is really easy. Here’s a quick 3-step guide for you:

There are two types of audio interfaces to use while connecting your guitar to your phone: Analog Audio Interfaces and Digital (USB) Audio Interfaces. We recommend you to use USB interfaces because they offer higher quality with lower audio latency*. Check the following link to see the list of our suggested interfaces:

*Latency is the time difference between what you play and what you hear.

This is called audio latency. Especially on some Android devices, processing an analog signal is not fast enough. USB audio interfaces generally reduce the latency to very low rates. Check the following post to avoid audio latency:

If you couldn’t find the solution please use the chat on right bottom of the page and click Application -> I have latency.

If you can’t hear any sound with Deplike, it is possible that you might have missed some points. This guide will help you solve it quickly:

While playing the electric guitar, guitarists may face various unwanted noises. These noises can be squeaks, cracks, feedback, glitch etc. They can be caused by many different sources. So you need to check the units of your connection. Please follow this guide:

Of course, you can. There is a “Virtual Guitarist” inside the app that plays 3 riffs: “Clean”, “Rock”, and “Metal”. When you are in the chain screen (play icon on the right side of the screen), tap on the blue play icon on the toolbar. While exploring presets, a “Hear Tone” button will appear when you try to play a preset with premium items.

Deplike offers in-app purchases, meaning, premium amps and pedals are unlocked inside the app. To see the “In-App Purchase” screen, you can simply tap on any premium item or any preset with a premium item in it.

The purchases are made from either Google Play Store or Apple App Store, depending on the operating system of your device. Therefore, your purchases are integrated with your Google Play/App Store accounts (not linked with the Google or Facebook accounts that you log in with).

Don’t worry. Your purchases never get lost. You might occasionally need to restore purchases or switch back to your original account which you purchased Deplike with. Check the following post for more information:

Sure. There is a “Virtual Guitarist” inside the app that plays 3 riffs: “Clean”, “Rock”, and “Metal”. Using Virtual Guitarist, you can create presets and share them with the world. Also, you can hear any preset made by Deplike users, using Virtual Guitarist. Check the following guide for more info:

• “How can I reach the guitar tone of Slash?”
• “I want my guitar to sound like Metallica.”
• “Which guitar pedals does Jimi Hendrix use?”
• “What are the amp settings for Stairway to Heaven?”

Deplike has more than 25.000 presets already and every day hundreds of new presets are created. It’s highly probable that you will find your favorite artists’ tone. Check the following guide:

Yes, you can. If that’s a real guitar amp with head and cabinet, all you need to do is to connect the output of your interface to the FX-return of your amp. This will bypass the preamp section of your real amp. Generally, FX-return is at the backside of an amp.

If your amp doesn’t have an FX-send/return, then you need to connect the output to the line input or MP3 input of your amp. If your amp has none of these, then you should connect it to the main input of your amp. Make sure your amp is set to clean, try to keep your EQ as flat as possible, keep your gain low and volume high.

If you want to use only the pedals from Deplike (not the amps) then you can bypass the amp (drag and drop the amp to the trash) from the app and connect the headphone out into the main input of your amp.

Tap on the green share icon on the right side of the screen while you are on the chain screen (where you see your chain with amps, pedals and cabinets). This will make you share your latest chain as a preset. Deplike is not only an app, but it is also a growing community platform.

If you are using a USB audio interface, and when the Real Time USB Audio switch is ON (the switch turns blue when it is on), it means that you are using the audio channel of Deplike. If the switch is OFF (it turns grey), then you are using the audio channel of your Android device.

When you open Deplike, it should be switched on by default. However, you might want to use the switch (turn it off) to test when you are having issues with the sound coming out from Deplike. 

What does it do?

If you are having a problem with your guitar sound while using Deplike, you may not understand the source of the problem at first sight. For example, if you are hearing some unwanted noises while you are playing your guitar with Deplike it might be caused by two main factors:

1. External factors (e.g. cable, audio interface, speaker etc.) 
2. Your phone/tablet is having a problem handling Deplike

If the problem persists after you switch the Real-time USB Audio off, then you can conclude that the problem is caused by external factors.

Analog audio interfaces transfer the audio coming from the guitar directly into the phone/tablet, without processing. Since smartphones and tablets are digital devices, this analog audio wave coming from the guitar may not be handled correctly. This might result in problems with the sound quality and audio latency.

As the USB audio interfaces convert the audio wave into a digital audio signal that smartphones and tablets can process well, the sound coming back from these mobile devices will be clear of any noises and there will be no latency.

This issue might occur on some macOS devices. Do not worry, it is very easy to overcome.

1. Before launching Logic Pro, open Deplike Guitar FX standalone app first.
2. Then launch Logic Pro and find Guitar FX plug-in from FX>Audio Units.
3. Feel free to contact hello@deplike.com if you need further assistance.

Purchases made on Android and iOS devices via Google Play Store and Apple App Store do not transfer to other platforms. 

Only the purchases made via our official web payment platform https://account.deplike.com/ grants premium access on mobile and desktop devices all at once.

If you have already paid for the app from Google Play or Apple App Store and would like to access on your desktop, please use the chat on right bottom of the page for assistance (Purchase -> Can’t access my account).

You can access your account on every device when you sign in with the same email address that you’ve made the purchase with via the web page. You should use the email login, not the Gmail or Facebook login.

Deplike Guitar FX has AUv3 support on iOS devices. You can use the app as a guitar effects audio unit plugin inside Garageband and any other AUv3 host software.

This way, you can make your own guitar recordings using your favorite guitar tones.

Make sure to match the correct input of your audio interface from the Audio Settings menu inside Deplike Guitar FX.