That can be great if you’re in a run and gun news setting where you don’t have the luxury of precise microphone placement and a lot of standard newsroom microphones are omnidirectional already. The built-in microphone on the iPhone is omnidirectional, meaning it is designed to pretty much pick up all the sound around the phone. One should point out that by itself, the iPhone still proves to be a capable audio recording device. It also means you won’t be stuck with a useless microphone if Apple does away with its Lightning port on a future generation of phones.įIRST, AUDIO RECORDING WITH THE IPHONE BY ITSELF That means investing in a good, industry standard microphone means you can continue to use it for years and with other equipment beyond the iPhone itself. We’ll touch on some of those proprietary options below as well, but it’s worth noting that audio gear has not changed as quickly as video over the years.
None of these microphones were made specifically to connect to an iPhone. Rode NTG-2 XLR Condenser Shotgun Microphone These are the microphones we’ll be using: Specifically, we’ll look at methods that require minimal additional equipment to connect your existing audio recording gear to the iPhone.
We’ll examine several techniques to record professional audio on an iphone using external microphones. That’s where most media creators run into challenges or begin to accept sub-par results. These limitations must be overcome in order to use the iPhone in coordination with professional audio equipment. Those include limited connectivity through a single Lightning port, minimal voltage necessary to power some microphones and a reliance on consumer apps not intended for professional audio production. As a multimedia tool, though, the iPhone comes with inherent limitations.
Both iPhone and Android smartphones are incredible, tiny computers that have already eclipsed speeds of laptop computers from just a few years back.
After several rounds of optimization, I realised that this was completely possible (even for older hardware) but then the far greater challenge became how to fit it all onto the iPhone’s screen without frustrating users.Whether recording a podcast, narration for video or upping your game for live video streaming projects like news interviews over Skype, many media professionals will come to a point where they want to learn how to record professional audio on an iPhone or iPad with an external microphone. Initially, I thought that the biggest challenge was going to be how to crowd so much functionality into a single app without overloading the iPhone’s CPU or memory. What were the challenges in creating the app? How did you make it usable for mere mortals? NanoStudio was my attempt to address this, enabling musicians to take their original idea and develop it into a finished song. Before I started developing NanoStudio, I’d tried out many existing music applications and although many of them were good in their own right they always lacked the ability to take my ideas further. It has four synths, 16 pads for triggering samples, a sequencer, a sample editor, a mixer and a number of effects such as chorus, delay, waveshaping and reverb. Matt: NanoStudio’s a mini electronic music recording studio integrated into a single app. What does NanoStudio do, and why did you decide to create the app?