drpro Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 I just ran across the new Rode iXY mic. Turns your iPhone or IPad into a 24bit/96k recorder. Now every producer will have one!! http://www.ixymic.com/ David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Waldron Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Wow.. Fabulous! I watched the video and this mic is good enough to use outdoors without wind protection!!! I wonder.. what happens when you get a phone call? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Collins Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 This is interesting as well, Alesis io. Possibly cheap,back up, quick voice overs. The sound of the pre amps would be a concern. Anybody heard one? http://www.alesis.com/iodock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Note that the Rode iPhone mic doesn't mount on the iPhone 5 or latest iPads (i.e., devices with the Lightning connector). Perhaps it will work with an iPhone 5 with Apple's adapter, but at first blush, that seems like a fragile arrangement. It only works with older iDevices. But we all know vintage iPhones sound better anyway. Also note that Blue came out with an iDevice mic a couple years ago: http://bluemic.com/mikey_digital/ Fostex & Tascam have things, too: http://www.sweetwater.com/c1060--iPad_iPhone_Microphones Should we start a pool? When will we first see an iXY Mic + Phone taped to a camera? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Duffy Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 I wonder.. what happens when you get a phone call? Speaking for TASCAM, because this is important info, and we have competing products (the iM2, available since Nov 2011, and the iM2X, available in stores now). The behavior changed several times over the various iOS version releases, but on an iPhone 4S with the latest OS, as soon as the phone call is received, the recording stops and the phone app takes over. Even if you ignore the call, the recording won't restart. There is no trace of the ringtone at the end of the recording, nor any of the phone call audio. Our FAQ on this is to always turn on airplane mode before recording. There is no way to get around this, the phone app on the iphone has ultimate control of the audio. I need to do one more test with the phone set to silent/vibrate only and see if that does anything different. Tom (TASCAM). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPSharman Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Zoom on a boom?! That's so 2012. iPhone on a stick! It doesn't rhyme, but rhyming costs more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 " Zoom on a boom?! " how about telephone pole..?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 Should we start a pool? When will we first see an iXY Mic + Phone taped to a camera? Oh God. Shoot me now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfisk Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 I've used the Tascam iM2 with my iPhone 4S (when I had it) for home videos, and quickie K-Tek videos when I threw my iPhone on one of our tadpoles. I love it for that kind of stuff. None of these things are good enough for anything professional, and seeing that photo of an iPhone mounted on a DSLR just makes me shake my head. I have this love/hate relationship with the DSLR world. It's a big market for us manufacturers, but at K-Tek we really try to avoid making products that encourage people to not get good sound. When people call me at the shop asking what audio products they should get with their norbert DSLR frame that we make, I tell them the best route is to hire a professional sound person to get good audio. Mounting a mic on their camera for anything other than a talking head that is a few feet away from the camera is never going to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jozzafunk Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 I was considering getting one of these ( for a bargain price ) for some sort of backup - but I just had a listen to comparitive samples on a couple of different websites, one being http://tvvj.wordpress.com/tag/tascam-im2x/ and I don't think it sounds very good at all, even compared to the cheap zoom thing - has anyone actually tried one, what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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