Testing 1, 2, 3 - Home recording with iPhone

Chula Vista · 07-10-2015, 11:26 AM

Was about to buy a cheap field recorder and then remembered my iPhone has a voice memo app. Wanna get some feedback as to how this sounds through your different playback systems. Through mine it's a bit low volume (it's finger plucked which doesn't help) and I can hear a fair amount of ambient noise. Not much high end either.

http://donniebshawn.com/song.mp3

**Frownland** · 07-10-2015, 11:32 AM

Get the Record Plus App, might work out better.

Plankton · 07-10-2015, 11:48 AM

That's not something I'd use to make a proper recording. If I had an iPhone, I'd probably go with something like this:

AmpliTube iRig - Walmart.com

I've heard good things about Amplitube, and that's pretty cheap if even just to knock around with it a bit. Also, if your acoustic isn't wired, then just mic to it. Gotta be better than the default mic in the phone. Nice little baroque piece, btw.

Chula Vista · 07-10-2015, 11:55 AM

Test 2 with a pick and a different "mic" location. Trying to keep this as brainless as possible.

http://donniebshawn.com/song2.mp3

07-10-2015, 11:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Testing 1, 2, 3 - Home recording with iPhone Was about to buy a cheap field recorder and then remembered my iPhone has a voice memo app. Wanna get some feedback as to how this sounds through your different playback systems. Through mine it's a bit low volume (it's finger plucked which doesn't help) and I can hear a fair amount of ambient noise. Not much high end either. http://donniebshawn.com/song.mp3 __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

07-10-2015, 11:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Get the Record Plus App, might work out better. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-10-2015, 11:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,766	That's not something I'd use to make a proper recording. If I had an iPhone, I'd probably go with something like this: AmpliTube iRig - Walmart.com I've heard good things about Amplitube, and that's pretty cheap if even just to knock around with it a bit. Also, if your acoustic isn't wired, then just mic to it. Gotta be better than the default mic in the phone. Nice little baroque piece, btw. __________________ See location...

07-10-2015, 11:55 AM	#4 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Test 2 with a pick and a different "mic" location. Trying to keep this as brainless as possible. http://donniebshawn.com/song2.mp3 __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”