Hi,
The only sample recordings I can point you to are the ones made at the
TouchMic site with the MightyMic or the lapel mic:
http://touchmic.com/products-page/iphone--ipod-touch-microphones--lapel-mics/
In practice, between these two, you'd need to use the lapel mic in
order to get headset feedback from VoiceOver, or you'd have to use the
TouchMic to start recording with an app like Voxie where you could
shake the iPod Touch to start and stop recording, and then pull out
the Microphone so you could listen to what was recorded. Those
microphones both use the audio out plug that the headphones plug
into. Dan, if you have an iPod Nano, the headset that comes with the
iPod Touch which includes a Mic is the same headset that came out for
use with the iPod Nano 4G. I don't find it bad, but it could be
better. I'm not sure that the lapel mic sample on the touchmic.com
page is accessible in Safari on the Mac, but it plays fine on the iPod
Touch.
You can also check my posts about the Voxie Pro recording app for the
iPhone and iPod Touch in this forum -- posted here, because the
viphone list is not archived at the Mail Archives, so there's no
easily searchable archive posts to link to. The only way I can point
people to older posts that recur as question on that list is to cc one
of my posts here (usually after I've answered some of the same
questions a few times). This is probably a pretty good app for
podcasting, and there are some links to posts that give sound samples
(though not as many as were supplied in the earlier multiple posts to
the viphone list before I started cc'ing to macvisionaries). Here are
the posts (I just put the search terms "from:Esther Voxie" into the
search box):
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg14822.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg14841.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg15111.html
Audio out through the earphone jack has to be mono. Your results will
also depend on the app -- the default Voice Memos app only records at
the lowest setting (8 kHz). Voxie lets you set the recording quality,
and is probably relatively good for podcasts. For professional grade
(stereo) sound recording, consider the Blue Mikey 2 that is just
released ($99 list price). The new model debuted at the Consumer
Electronics Show earlier this year. It hasn't shown up on Amazon or
other places yet -- only the old Mikey model is currently on sale
there, but I think Sweetwater has just started shipping the Blue Mikey
2:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Mikey2/
And one of the articles about the Blue Mikey 2:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/12/macworld-2010-hands-on-with-the-blue-mikey/
Cheers,
Esther
Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
I personally find the microphone that is provided next to useless.
There is a huge amount of background hiss in any recordings I make to
the point where its only just about usable for very basic note taking.
Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello All,
How sensitive is the headphone microphone on the iPod Touch 32 or
64 GB
units? For example, is it clear enough for podcasting? How well
does it pick
up ambient sounds?
Thanks in advance.
Dan
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