Play guitar over FaceTime and Zoom, straight from your rig.

FaceTime listens to one microphone, so a guitar plugged into an audio interface won’t reach the call unless that interface, or a mix that includes it, is chosen as the mic. With StompLink, choose StompLink as FaceTime’s microphone and your guitar, your voice and any app you add go into the call together. If FaceTime offers a Mic Mode setting during the call, Wide Spectrum is generally a better fit for instruments than Voice Isolation, which is designed to keep only your voice. Step-by-step guide.

Choose StompLink as Zoom’s microphone and speaker, then turn on Zoom’s original sound option for musicians in its audio settings and switch it on in the meeting. Without it, Zoom’s noise suppression can treat your guitar as background noise. Zoom renames its menus from time to time, so look for “original sound” in the Audio section of its settings. Lesson setup guide.

Yes. StompLink shows up as a regular audio device, so any app that lets you pick a microphone and speaker can use it. In your call app’s audio settings, choose StompLink as both the microphone and the speaker. The call then appears in StompLink as a source; under Destinations, pick where you hear it: your Stomp device, headphones, AirPods or speakers.

Yes, that’s one of the main reasons StompLink exists. Your teacher or student hears your guitar and voice clearly, you hear them through your own gear, and you can record the whole lesson. See the lesson setup guide.

Not in tight sync. FaceTime, Zoom and the internet add delay between you, so a call is great for trading riffs, working out parts and playing for each other, but not for locking into the same groove at the same moment.

No. A call app is optional. On its own, StompLink mixes your mic, instrument and any app into your headphones or speakers for practice, and can record what you play. Add a call app only when you want a remote lesson, a jam or to FaceTime a friend.

Not with the defaults. Call audio is never sent back into the call, and your own gear isn’t sent back to your gear, so neither side hears an echo of themselves. You can change any of it per source and destination.

Yes. StompLink takes any audio interface, amp modeler or USB amp that shows up in macOS Sound settings, mixes it with your mic, and gives FaceTime a single microphone called StompLink. The call comes back to the outputs you choose, including your interface’s headphone jack. Interface guide.

Any Core Audio device that appears in macOS Sound settings, such as USB and Thunderbolt interfaces and guitar modelers with a USB audio connection, class-compliant or using its maker’s driver, as a source, a destination or both.

Anything that shows up on your Mac as an audio interface: a USB or Thunderbolt audio interface, amp modeler, multi-effects unit or USB amp that appears in macOS Sound settings, class-compliant or using its maker’s driver, like the HX Stomp. A plain analog pedal with no USB audio isn’t one on its own; plug it into an audio interface and that interface becomes your Stomp device. No gear yet? Your Mac’s built-in mic and speakers work too.

No, but you do need a device that works as an audio interface on your Mac. StompLink calls it your “Stomp device”: any audio interface, amp modeler, multi-effects unit or USB amp that connects over USB (or Thunderbolt) and shows up in macOS Sound settings, class-compliant or with its maker’s driver, like the HX Stomp. Examples include Line 6 HX Stomp, Focusrite Scarlett, Universal Audio Volt, Neural DSP Quad Cortex, Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III and FM3, and Positive Grid Spark. Analog pedal with no USB audio? Plug it into an audio interface and use that. No gear yet? Your Mac’s built-in mic and speakers work too. How to set up your device.

A little. Bluetooth adds noticeable delay, so AirPods are fine for hearing the call or a friend, but for playing along, wired headphones or your Stomp device’s headphone jack feel much tighter. Any output in macOS Sound settings can be a destination, so you can add AirPods alongside your Stomp device and switch either one off.

StompLink is built on Core Audio and designed to keep its path low-latency. If your interface has direct monitoring, you can keep hearing your instrument that way while StompLink handles the mix for headphones, recording or a call. On a call, the call app and the internet add their own delay between you and the other person, so remote jams work best for trading parts and ideas rather than playing in tight sync.

Yes. Set GarageBand’s output, or play any app, to StompLink and it appears as its own source with its own fader. Switch its feed on for the Call destination and the other person hears it along with your guitar.

Yes. In GarageBand’s audio settings, pick StompLink as the input to record your mix (mic, instrument and anything else you’ve routed), or as the output to play GarageBand into your headphones or a call. The same works in Logic, Ableton and other Core Audio apps.

No. StompLink includes its own virtual audio device and does the mixing itself, so you don’t need a separate virtual audio driver such as BlackHole, and you don’t need to build Multi-Output or Aggregate devices in Audio MIDI Setup. Your Stomp device still needs to work on your Mac as an audio interface, class-compliant or using its maker’s driver: StompLink replaces BlackHole, not your device’s own driver.

The StompLink menu-bar app and a small Core Audio virtual audio device (an audio driver plug-in). The driver is what lets StompLink appear as a microphone and speaker in FaceTime, Zoom, GarageBand and other apps. Installing it asks for your administrator password, and your Mac’s audio may restart briefly. Need help removing it? Email support.

Yes. StompLink records your mic and instrument and, on a call, the other side too, either with video of the call window or as audio only. It picks the call window automatically, or you can choose one. Recordings are saved on your Mac and stay there. Please get the other person’s consent before recording a call, audio or video; the rules vary by place.

Yes. StompLink records both sides of FaceTime video calls, and Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Discord calls, with video of the call window and your guitar at full quality, or as audio only. Recent versions of macOS can record some FaceTime audio calls on their own; StompLink is for video calls, other call apps and your gear’s direct sound. Recording guide.

$24, one time, with no subscription. Launch price: $19 for the first 60 days. A license covers one Mac at a time, and you can move it to a new Mac anytime.

Only to activate. After that StompLink checks in occasionally (about once a month) and keeps working offline in between, with a grace period if you’re away from a connection.

Yes. Your license works on one Mac at a time. Deactivate on the old Mac, then activate on the new one. Here’s how.

Not yet. StompLink is built for macOS (26 Tahoe or later). On another OS? We can be convinced to make StompLink available on other operating systems upon request. Please submit a support request!

Just what licensing needs: your license key, an anonymous one-way hash that identifies your Mac, the app version, and timestamps. Never your audio or recordings. See the privacy policy.