Instruments plugged in to headphone jack won't record

I've plugged in my bass and guitar through the headphone jack in GarageBand for the iPad, but it refuses to record from anything but the mic. I've tried messing with various settings and nothing seems to work. I feel alike if I could select an imput device, that would fix it, but I haven't seen a way to do that. Am I missing something?
Any ideas?
Thanks, Trueno07

I didn't see it listed in the specs, so I didn't think the iPad could do this, but I think you're right in that it can. I've never used the iPad headphone jack as an input, so I don't have 1st hand experience. However, I found a couple links that might be helpful:
http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-diy/6494-ipad-iphone-input.html
http://technologizer.com/2011/03/10/some-quick-thoughts-on-garageband-for-ipad/

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