Guitar FX Echo adds some much-needed reverb to your boring life.

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Wanna rock out and hear your voice and your guitar echoing endlessly in your head? Wanna crank your ear bud volume and replicate the tinnitus that you usually only get from an overly-loud concert…but this time the rock star is you?

Then Guitar FX Echo, by Trial and Error Dev Team, is for you. Be warned though; it’s crazy simple and honestly doesn’t do much. It’s for novelty use only, but at only $.99 it won’t break the bank.

The app works simply. If you plug your headphones in to the iPhone and push the buds into your ear, everything coming through the microphone takes on whatever echo effect you select. There are ten different echo/reverb effects, and you can also adjust the gain of the effect (another turney-knob that goes from one to ten).

There is also a slidey bar for the master volume, so you can crank this bastard to eleven and destroy your ear drums. Once you have a setting you like, hold down on one of the four preset buttons to store it and come back to it later.

The effects are very simple, basically echoing at different intervals. The only big flaw that I have found with this app design wise is that there is some static in the line when adding an effect which can get very annoying with the in-your-ear headphones. When you get loud enough, though, you drown it out.

This is not a great app for the professional musician like the very expensive iRock. It’s a silly, goofy app to be played with, put away and dragged out every once in a while for self amusement (and whenever you want to pretend to be a rock star for a few minutes). There are no options for recording, and the buds don’t allow anyone but yourself to hear your amazing echoe-y stylings.

The website says that this is an app designed specifically to turn your acoustic guitar into a badass electric-sounding guitar with echo/reverb. Me though, I found another use for this one. I set the effects to gain ten, effect seven. Then I hum a little “ch” into the phone and let it fade into the distance before following it up with a harsh “ka.”

I sound just like Jason Voorhees. And that, in and of itself, is worth $.99 to a horror movie fanatic like me.

You can buy Guitar FX Echo HERE.

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