I mean this thing, you know is 128 gigs of memory, and the article quality is actually very, very good and sometimes having this on hand, you know you can do so much with it, but the problem has always been.
You know really good audio you’re limited by whatever microphone has been on on the phone itself. So today I just like talked a little bit with regards to gear that you can get in fairly inexpensive gear, but really good gear. If you have like an interview that you need to do, but you don’t necessarily have the means to take all your regular professional recording gear with you, but you still want to get a capture, a good good article and maybe the the audio as well.
So what I have with my little bag goods today is first of all, I love these audio technica little pouches. You can get them about $ 8 online through amazon.Com, or maybe some of the other online retailers like B & H and and elsewhere, but I really really like these. They just they’re good quality fabric and zipper and they’re just really handy for carrying stuff. So I have a couple here today: first, talk about, you know: securing or mounting your phone there’s, there’s quite a few different options out there and I’ve spent several a lot of time researching and going through different ones, and this shoulder pod is the one that I Settled on eventually it’s a really well built.
Has nice rubber feet here to kind of grasp the the phone itself and it’s adjustable, so it can take quite a few different sizes of phones from iPhones fours to Samsung’s, Galaxy, fives and, of course, even iphone six-plus, which this one is here even with this case. On so it has a little justa bowl dial here you just kind of open it up there, and then we just go ahead and tighten the top just enough to secure it and that’s actually pretty secure.
You notice that it’s not going to go anywhere. The cool thing about this is too is on the bottom here it take, it has a standard quarter, inch screw mount and in that this is weighted so with the strap. So if you’re not going to mount it on anything, you can actually hold it. This is fairly comfortable with this weighted bottom here, but for myself I also got myself an open, titi, 100, a little mini tripod and these tabletop tripods.
I looked at quite a few of them and including the Manfrotto, and I felt that this one actually was just built better in some way and has a little bit better features. It’s it’s metal all metal and at this portion here with the ball, mount actually does come off itself, so you can bring it down further if you wanted to, but with the ball mount you can actually then mount this thing like this in a vertical or in A portrait or in landscape mode so go ahead, and just add this to here and then we position the phone in the camera anyway we want to so this is really nice.
I was really really impressed with the update Oban. I believe that’s how you pronounce it. Tt 100, they do make a model that has an extended riser for a few more dollars. It’s not very expensive. It’s I think about $ 40. I mean for that that model, but this is fine in terms of mounting it and they’re there other solutions out there, though this is the one I prefer, but the really big question is: how do you get really good audio quality audio in having a balanced mic? Is is really different, all the difference in the world, so I doing a little research.
I found the iRig Pro. They have one, that’s very similar. It is called the irig pre and it does almost everything this did does, but the exception is it analog input. I was looking for something that was digital, pure digital, and this is this fits the bill and it comes with several different connectors here. Mini-Din this one here plugs into the iPhone standard, iOS a new version, and they do have a legacy cable that comes with it.
Also plugs into the the older iOS devices, but this just plugs in into there and then, of course you have your option here to either a quarter inch plug and/or a balance mic and for just demonstration purposes. Today I have just a fairly inexpensive audio Texan Technica, Pro 70 lav mic. You can get these just about anywhere and, of course, these operate. They do have a battery and the pre fairly fairly nice system.
So if you’re doing like the interview and something this, this really would fit the bill and then, of course, a XLR cable like this here, which you can pick up but anywhere as well, in a music store for about $ 110. So, as you can see here, this plugs in fairly simple and it has a 9-volt battery in here and it does provide phantom power here, which is really nice, as well as a MIDI port in so this device is fairly compact.
Unfortunately, unlike the irig pre, it doesn’t have a means by which you can strap it by itself. You know if you wanted it like, strap it to a tripod or something like that, but a little bit of ingenuity. It wouldn’t be too difficult to do that. The only complaint I have about the iRig is that it’s got a smooth dial here and I perhaps they they purposely did it that way to keep it for somebody from moving it once the the settings have been set, but it’s a little sometimes a little bit Slick to try to move but overall, solid device – this is a little more expensive than the irig pre, of course running out about a hundred and nineteen hundred twenty dollars and the irig pre runs about.
I don’t know thirty dollars or so there’s a big difference in price, but with an all digital input, I mean, I think that really sets a standard in and also the quality build. This feels pretty solid. Now, for for audio or article input there, you can use a standard Apple camera mode in the article or I you can, you know, bump it up and pay dollars and buy the filmic Pro app, and this is a really solid, app and really pleased with.
In terms of this functionality, but you can see here that gives all types of options for both audio settings and in article settings alike, and just for this demonstration, I’m going to just going to show you. You know the benefits of having audio in direct audio. In so we’re going to turn this on and apply phantom power, and you can see the levels here go up as I talk, and so we don’t get any clipping.
Obviously, but you know you see over here on the left-hand side, you know it’s bringing in the audio in the levels are somewhat low. This point just bring it up a little bit more just gotten. The orange light or yellow light here indicates getting a little bit clipping so probably about right. There’s is a good indicator. If you have a gig that requires, you know where you don’t have a lot of time.
A good gather, your gear or or your you know, can’t carry a lot with you. I mean this is essentially all you need just a couple pouches worth of gear, maybe a cable or a key, and you don’t even have to have a cable. You can even use a wireless device like Sennheiser or some of these others. Now lighting too, is critical. Obviously these are a wonderful device here. These are the Chinese made, there’s called the HD VZ 96 and you can get a money, Bay and bunch of other places, but this is.
These are LED lighting with magnetic filters on them. They come with an orange orange diffuser as well. Of course, with a standard. You know quarter-inch there and they. As far as power is concerned, you can use standard Sony, lithium batteries which come at down dime a dozen I’m fairly inexpensive to buy or just use regular double-a batteries. In here or less case scenario, you can even plug in a power supply here for it.
So you have multiple options this this little light and of course, is it’s a dimmable, so you can adjust the intensity of the light there, but you can see adding that in the background you know you can bring a couple of these with you and then, if You wanted to go any further in and bring a stand. These stands are real inexpensive. You can do that as well. So just showing you what I use when I go on am a single shot and I don’t have the means to carry a lot of stuff with me.
You know just my phone mini-tripod, maybe in a mic and a cable, and then of course, my iRig Pro to come with me and and of course everything is built-in. I mean the cameras are the the recording capability, especially the iPhone 6 plus, is quite a long time. You can practically shoot a whole motion picture film and then some on this, so it really makes it convenient, and now, with the ability to put digital audio directly into your article, is, is really the primary thing of excellence, because too often times nothing kills a good Article with bad audio, and especially the clarity of the audio, so this will help remedy that completely and really in terms of cost we’re looking for all this gear, you know probably under right under about $ 200 for everything.
Here I should say the lav mic lab mics, you can, you know they have all that comes with flavors and you can go. You know over the top with with an expensive one, but I even find some used ones. That would probably work for you, but for the most part, you’re looking at a set up about $ 200. That will give you the ability to just do a simple, high-quality, somewhat high quality article, and you can course render this and do anything you need to in post.
But anyway, I just like to share what my setup looks like we. I hope someone finds this useful as it takes a little bit of the guesswork out of trying to figuring things out by themselves. Things
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