<div dir="ltr">I am curious if the mic attachment to a phone improves the quality of your spectrograms? I have a Google Pixel 8 pro and use Merlin and the Recorder App to record, Audacity to edit. I'm not able to get spectrograms crisp enough to get what I want, which is the ability to ID Red Crossbills by their type of flight call. The spectrograms lack sufficient detail. Some folks that do have success getting crisp spectrograms using basic gear are using iphones. I wonder if the quality of the mic on a Pixel is less than an iphone? <div><br></div><div>Thank you! <div><br></div><div>Dave Swinford</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM Robert O'Brien via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</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">Thanks for that Mic info. I got Costco hearing aids a year or so ago and suddenly I was able to hear bids i had not heard in years <div>BUT, it seemed impossible to determine the direction of the bird sound.</div><div>AND Merlin with my Samsung S25+ still hears WAY more birds than I do. And I'm glad of it. I cannot hear Brown Creepers at all and it picks them up all the time.</div><div>Always helpful to get more information about 'Hearing while Birding'.</div><div>Thanks for posting</div><div>Bob OBrien Portland</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM BRAD Liljequist via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</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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I got all excited about using a mic with my phone for Merlin - I bought both Sennheiser MKE 200 and 600's. To be honest, they help, but not in a transformative way. That, combined with my wife's worry that someone would think I have a gun in my hand (!) has
resulted in me not using them much. It does seem like the phone mics (mine a Samsung) do pretty well. I do still wonder about a parabolic mic but that's going into full geekdom, and I have enough of that elsewhere in my life.</div>
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