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Professional mic with a consumer adapter

Professional mic with a consumer adapter

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Professional mic with a consumer adapter

- So Rich we've talked about a lot of different ways to adapt audio to our set-up here but y'know sometimes you might wanna have back-up where you might wanna run a different situation and I think one of the most popular ways to do this in the video world, of course, is with dual system sound. Having a separate digital audio recorder. - Yeah and that's great, y'know. People like Zoom have been making popular devices like the H4n to record audio in, which is great. It's a high quality recorder but most people are walking around with digital recorders in their pockets, called phones. - So phones or iPads, these can be digital audio recorders. You've probably recorded a voice memo on your phone before Well, guess what? That's a digital audio-- - Siri, remind me to pick up milk. - Exactly, now here's the problem though. If you use just the built-in microphone on a device like an iPhone here, it's gonna sound okay but not great. You're gonna get a lot of ambient sound. Might sound a little…

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