Neal, I certainly know you weren't suggesting anything of the sort. As like you, I'm always playing with mics, apps, etc to get the best possible sound out of any device that I'm using at the time since I do audio for a living. I was just making a couple points there to go along with what you'd said. As Neal Augenstine who is the WTOP reporter & I have discussed many times in the past, the end listener isn't as focused on those type things as those of us who get obsessed with them are. Great discussion but I'd bet we're probably not supposed to be having it on this here list... ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 16:19 Subject: RE: An audio demo of the process and unprocessed microphone in the iPhone 5
Hi all, I was not meaning to suggest that the microphone on the iPhone was not good. I can see that a lot of people would use it for a lot of good recordings. I was just pointing out an app that, especially if you are listening through professional speakers or wearing professional grade headphones, does in fact sound very nice. The Apple processed microphone is quite good as phone microphones go. My iTouch microphone sounds much better, but likely that is because they have not tried to limit the frequency response for phone calls. I have heard some crappie mikes in my day, and I certainly don’t consider the iPhone 5 microphone anywhere close to these. Neal From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Paul Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: An audio demo of the process and unprocessed microphone in the iPhone 5 Me personally. I think the mic on the iDevices is very good. I've actually recorded audio using it & we've gone to air with it. There is a news reporter who works for WTOP radio out of Washington DC & that's all that he uses for all of his on air broadcast recordings. I'll stop now as this discussion could go on for ever if we let it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 13:02 Subject: RE: An audio demo of the process and unprocessed microphone in the iPhone 5 Hi Carol, I listened to Neil’s audio samples and admit that the Fire 2 recording does sound very good. The base is better and overall the sound is fuller and richer. If the Fire 2 recording was used as a reference and given a 10 out of 10 for quality, I would say the List Recorder recording Neil made as a comparison was at least an 8 or maybe even a 9 out of 10. If you didn’t have both recordings side by side you would not even notice the difference that much, at least I wouldn’t and another factor is what your usage is. If you absolutely need or want the upmost in quality I could see how you would want the Fire 2 app, if you want good quality recordings for taking notes and so on I think for most people List Recorder or any other recording app which does not circumvent Apple’s audio processing will be just fine. After all, it’s not as if there were multiple discussion threads on Viphone where people complain about the poor audio recording quality. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Pearson Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: An audio demo of the process and unprocessed microphone in the iPhone 5 I am interested in this app, but do have recorders already. What would I gained from it? Other recordings really that much better? In addition, have you tried any of the editing facilities to see if they work with VO? This would interest me greatly. Carol P Sent from my iPhone On 4 Mar 2013, at 03:17 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: Hi. I bought the fire 2 app long long ago. It was not accessible when. I wrote to the developer and nothing happened. But I will really recommend this app now. Could someone add it to applevis. Best regards Annie. On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Thanh Vinh <[email protected]> wrote: It seems that i'd love the latter more because it sounds better of the bass. Not sure whether the 2nd app that you use helps the sound has more bass. 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Use this app. ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 15:19 Subject: An audio demo of the process and unprocessed microphone in the iPhone 5 Hi, the link below is to a very short demo of the totally different way the microphone on the iPhone 5 can sound when you take away apple’s processing. I don’t know other apps that do this, but Fire 2 definitely does. You have the way to control the volume, compression, limiter and other audio features. There is a setting in the app that allows you to completely turn off the microphone processing done by apple. First I use List Recorder to record the actual sound of the microphone with all of apple’s audio processing turned on, which is the only way most apps can do it. Next, there is a recording made in Fire 2 with the processing turned off. Enjoy. ftp://ftp.ravenswood.org/iPhone-microphone-processed-and-unprocessed.mp3 Neal No virus found in this message. 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