built in IPOD adapter?

[Dominick22]

I am currently building a gc ans was wondering if anyone knew of a way to integrate an IPOD adapter as the signal input??? Is there a special piece for this that can bought??
Thanks,
Dominick

[Narcisse91]

Wouldn't you just need an 1/8" stereo headphone adapter? I thought that was all my ipod had on it...

[Dominick22]

hmm, i guess that might work if I could find a cord that had two male headphone ends!

I'll start looking. Sometimes the simple answers elude us in the midst of the search fot the unknown!

Thanks,
Dominick

[Narcisse91]

If nothing else, you can buy the connectors at radio shack and make your own cable...

However, I know for a fact you can buy them, as I have a couple.

[dfdye]

do you mean the connector for the back end of the iPod, or the headphone jack? The latter is readily available most places, (as discussed above) but the former seem much cooler.

[sek]

Yes, the headphone plug will always work and you'll have 'built-in' volume control.

But the line out via the dock connector has cleaner sound (a little less distortion and noise) and can be used with an external volume control (no need to fiddle around with two controls then).

By including this dock connector into a GC, you could also supply the iPod with power (5V, <1A) and thus replace the stock Apple dock with something DIY

You could also use the original dock as is and connect it to your GC, though (i.e. placing it on top)

Cheers,
Sebastian.

[lgreen]

I was looking into this a year ago when I was making my iPod Accessory Device, that was intended to connect my Gainclone to my iPod.

I found that-
- the iPod base unit connector is proprietary to Apple and you cannot get one as a lowly user.
- if you disassemble your docking connecter there are people who have hacked into the pinout (and posted pics) so you could connect a cable to the right pins, I found this on computer and apple sites last year but have no idea where the posts are now.
- the docking connector bypasses the volume control and is supposedly much better to use.
-based on all this I connected the miniplug (ipod headphone jack) to my interface, which uses DRV134 chips to feed a balanced signal into my balanced gainclone.
- I'd love to see someone DIY a docking connector so if you are successful at this let me know.

Edit- looks like it was 2 years ago! Wow....

[mobman924]

The Dock connector is availible here:
http://home.swipnet.se/ridax/connector.htm
The Pinouts for the 30pin iPod Connector are here: http://ipodlinux.org/Dock_Connector

I built a line out dock connector using a cheap iPod cable that I cannibalized and terminated to a 1/8" stereo jack. But it could be connected to anything.