[Tweeters] audio recording devices RFI

[Wim van Dam]

>

> I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it

> with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the

> connection and adaptors, resulting in massive glitch noises.


I can confirm Voice Record Pro and Voice Record 7 can give superior
recordings because their .wav format does not have the
distortion-through-mp4 compression that standard voice recording apps
have.

I can also confirm that attaching a real microphone (like a Sennheiser) to
an iPhone is not easy as the XLR-to-lightning connection is problematic. I
tried using an XLR-to-trs and trs-to-lightning connection, but that didn't
work. Does anyone know if a TRRS is needed for attaching a microphone (as
opposed to speaker) to an iPhone?

Wim van Dam
Solvang, CA

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 9:24 AM Steve Hampton <stevechampton at gmail.com>
wrote:


> Simply using the *Voice Memos app *on an iPhone works okay in a pinch.

> Better yet is the free app *Voice Record Pro* (the icon is a dark red

> background with a black-and-white old radio microphone). This was

> recommended in Birding magazine. It's quite good and you can jack the gain,

> which is nice. It also exports to Google Drive, iCloud, etc. making it easy

> to get the recordings off your phone. Voice Record Pro is really the

> simplest and easiest for recording in a pinch, especially if I don't want

> to carry other items with me.

>

> Otherwise, I use a Tascam DR-07 MKII. There are probably more recent

> models and similar devices. With this I use a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic.

> Again, there are probably more recent analogous models.

>

> See the Forum at xeno-canto re: hardware and software.

> https://xeno-canto.org/forum/

>

> I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it

> with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the

> connection and adaptors, resulting in massive glitch noises.

>

> At the post-processing end, to zoom in on the bird and get rid of some of

> the white noise, I use Audacity on my laptop. Also free. There is guidance

> here on using that and other software:

>

> https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines

>

> happy recording!

>

>

>

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 8:28 AM Scott Atkinson <scottratkinson at hotmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>> Hi Tweeters,

>>

>> Very belatedly asking if anyone out there in Tweeterland could provide me

>> with an idea or two for audio recordings.  Santa Claus is asking me for

>> last-minute gift ideas, and I'd like to join the party of those who upload

>> such recordings to EBird.  Not too pricey and not too bulky preferred,

>> thank you!

>>

>> Scott Atkinson

>> Lake Stevens

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