Visit www.macusersguide.com for more information on using your iPhone Voice Memo app to set up your own professional audio recording setup. Using either iTalk or Voice Memo you will want to get a nice recording beyond capture audio using the built in microphone or the headset. I have collected a lot of audio equipment over the years and I wanted to use one of my nicer microphones with my iPhone 3G. (TESTED: This technique will work with the new iPhone 3GS and 2nd Generation iTouch.) Unfortunately there arent cables that give you a real microphone connection using the iPhone input jack. Most of the microphones and connections have to be made through some sort of dock connection at the bottom of the iPhone. Check out what I used to make this possible.
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5 Responses to “iPhone Voice Memo: Put together your own portable studio”
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angstfornothing says:
Great tutorial. I was just about to cut and strip my $40 apple mic/earbuds. I didn’t know a/v cables came with a four pin jack on one end.
Anyway, I wanted to ask, what is the sample rate on the voice memo? Is it 44K or thereabouts? I read somewhere that it records at a super low rate, something around 8K. If this is true do you know of a hifi voice recording app? i want to do some hi quality field recording with an omnidirectional mic. thanks. -
There are a lot of great new mics out now that were not available when I posted this. Thanks for the suggestion!
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you need to google interdealz flexible mini mic thats all you need
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I came up with this solution when I was on the road and didn’t have access to my laptop. I wanted to record an interview and had my Apple video kit with me to plug my iphone into the tv at the hotel. The place that the interview was taking place at had a mixing board and I knew that the iPhone headphone jack could act as an audio input using the AV cable. I figured that it would be cool to share this aspect of the iPhone with others.
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I don’t really see the point of this tutorial.
If you’re going to use a mixer and a separate MIC, you might as well connect them to a PC, and not the iphone.
This is the opposite of “portable”.