Hello,

I am considering using an iphone as a portable sound recorder. I would like to get a shotgun mic and or a lapel mic and connect it to the iphone. I have found adapters but am unsure of the quality. Has anybody done this?

Thanks!

I have never looked into this but my research shows..

You might be on to something :) Keep us posted on how well this works out for you..

This looks like your easiest solution.. http://www.alesis.com/protrack


FiRe as a posible field recording app for your iphone. (http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/)

People use the blue Mikey (http://www.bluemic.com/mikey/)

as for interfaceing a mic to the phone.. I saw this thread on the Apps forums...

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/support/forums/read.php?10,3579

Youll need a mic and a pre amp.. but thats common stuff..

I tested the iPod touch and the preamps are BAD, lots of noise. I imagine the iPhone uses the same preamps. It a shame, the iPod is a great tool to have on the set.

Terry

Awesome! Thanks for the help! I am ordering the adapter from kvconnecter

Regarding the preamps, you both mentioned something different... I have used the mic that is provided with the phone and there is constant static. I am imagining that is the noise Stardust is talking about? Can this be filtered out without significant degradation?

Or, do I need to purchase a preamp if I use this setup?

oh uh.. if it goes horribly wrong don't blame us! :)

"Can this be filtered out without significant degradation?"

No. I would not use the iPhone to record audio for any film project. You can not get around the bad preamps in the iPhone or the iPod touch.

Terry

A few things to keep in mind...

The so-called preamp in the iPhone is EXTREMELY noisy, it's going to take a lot of work to eliminate the noise in post.

The iPhone uses a compressed recording format, so the sync of longer takes may drift substantially.

I believe that it records at 12bit/24kHz - standard DVD audio is 24bit/48kHz.