Hi. I recently bought an external mike for my cellphone to improve audio recordings, but it doesn’t seem to do so. It’s an iRig Mic Lav from IK multimedia. I succesfully installed the necessary app and had to buy and adapter, as the plug didn’t fit my cellphone. Does anyone has any suggestions of im…

I looked into external mics for my phone a while back, mostly looking for a directional one that would allow me to target a particular source of sound and therefore omit most of the background noise. To be honest, phone technology now is so far advanced, that I found the phone mic itself to be more…

what kinds of audio quality issues are you encountering? are you recording sounds from sources that are close or far? i’ve found that a windscreen helps with the wind noise outside. traffic noise is a little harder to deal with, but it can be removed or at least reduced in post-processing. (in this …

The main problem is that the soundlevel is so low that it’s hardly hearable when you play back the recording. I hoped that the external mike would improve that. The software that came with the mike allows some definition and I put incoming sound level max, but it did not improve the results. When I …

I use the freeware mp3DirectCut for simple cropping and volume maximization but this is a (Windows) desktop and not a phone app.

ok… i assume you’re recording distant sounds. nature is relatively quiet. so i’m not surprised that what you’re picking up is relatively quiet. the external mic might be a little more sensitive and less noisy than the built-in microphone on your phone, but it doesn’t look like this one will give yo…

I purchased an external mic for my iPhone and had similar problems with low audio level. I ended up mounting the mic in an aluminum reflector I had lying around for photographic lighting. Ideally it would be a parabolic reflector - it’s not - but it did markedly improve the audio and it was free. …

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