<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the connection and adaptors, resulting in massive glitch noises. </blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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?</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Wim van Dam </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Solvang, CA</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 9:24 AM Steve Hampton <<a href="mailto:stevechampton@gmail.com">stevechampton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Simply using the <b>Voice Memos app </b>on an iPhone works okay in a pinch. Better yet is the free app <b>Voice Record Pro</b> (the icon is a dark red background with a black-and-white old radio microphone). This was recommended in Birding magazine. It's quite good and you can jack the gain, which is nice. It also exports to Google Drive, iCloud, etc. making it easy to get the recordings off your phone. Voice Record Pro is really the simplest and easiest for recording in a pinch, especially if I don't want to carry other items with me. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Otherwise, I use a Tascam DR-07 MKII. There are probably more recent models and similar devices. With this I use a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic. Again, there are probably more recent analogous models. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">See the Forum at xeno-canto re: hardware and software. <a href="https://xeno-canto.org/forum/" target="_blank">https://xeno-canto.org/forum/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the connection and adaptors, resulting in massive glitch noises. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">At the post-processing end, to zoom in on the bird and get rid of some of the white noise, I use Audacity on my laptop. Also free. There is guidance here on using that and other software:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"> <a href="https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines" target="_blank">https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">happy recording!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 8:28 AM Scott Atkinson <<a href="mailto:scottratkinson@hotmail.com" target="_blank">scottratkinson@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Very belatedly asking if anyone out there in Tweeterland could provide me with an idea or two
for audio recordings. Santa Claus is asking me for last-minute gift ideas, and I'd like to join the party of those who upload such recordings to EBird. Not too pricey and not too bulky preferred, thank you!</span></div>
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