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I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it
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with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the
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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>
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Simply using the *Voice Memos app *on an iPhone works okay in a pinch.
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Better yet is the free app *Voice Record Pro* (the icon is a dark red
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background with a black-and-white old radio microphone). This was
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recommended in Birding magazine. It's quite good and you can jack the gain,
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which is nice. It also exports to Google Drive, iCloud, etc. making it easy
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to get the recordings off your phone. Voice Record Pro is really the
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simplest and easiest for recording in a pinch, especially if I don't want
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to carry other items with me.
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Otherwise, I use a Tascam DR-07 MKII. There are probably more recent
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models and similar devices. With this I use a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic.
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Again, there are probably more recent analogous models.
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See the Forum at xeno-canto re: hardware and software.
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https://xeno-canto.org/forum/
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I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it
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with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the
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connection and adaptors, resulting in massive glitch noises.
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At the post-processing end, to zoom in on the bird and get rid of some of
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the white noise, I use Audacity on my laptop. Also free. There is guidance
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here on using that and other software:
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https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines
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happy recording!
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 8:28 AM Scott Atkinson <scottratkinson at hotmail.com>
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wrote:
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Hi Tweeters,
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Very belatedly asking if anyone out there in Tweeterland could provide me
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with an idea or two for audio recordings. Santa Claus is asking me for
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last-minute gift ideas, and I'd like to join the party of those who upload
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such recordings to EBird. Not too pricey and not too bulky preferred,
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thank you!
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Scott Atkinson
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Lake Stevens
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