so you want to use a external microphone
with your Apple iPhone but you plug in
your microphone and find well wait it
didn't record any audio meaning you're
trying to record that family video uh
kids first steps you never know for me
personally I found a really nice app for
recording audio so if I do like a how-to
video or something I can come back later
real record or narrow ate my video as
I'm watching it and just record it
straight to my phone kind of like an old
cassette recorder would used to be used
for I found just doing it into my
computer itself introduced just too many
too much background noise or other
variables that were harder to control so
I thought okay I'll try one of my lapel
microphones it did not work let me show
you why if you notice this is a stereo
plug you got one two three sets of
contacts separated however because the
iphone or other I devices only have a
single port for both microphones and
your ear plugs earphones headphones
earbuds your pods whatever your whatever
you might have they use a slightly
different style plug this is a for plug
which incorporates see the difference
which incorporates both audio and stereo
or excuse me input and output now to be
able to use a microphone or external
microphone with your iDevice you will
need to get an adapter dongle of some
sort or use apple's own
branded Mike unfortunately those are
relatively expensive compared to getting
three of these for four bucks so I have
a link to a i have a link where you can
purchase one of these this is really
inexpensive and if you're not in a hurry
this was shipped to me from hong kong i
think it took about two weeks to get at
a price of a dollar 25 at the time you
can get them even cheaper than that i
liked this one you can get it where it's
just microphone only or microphone and
earphones I figure what the heck for the
extra five cents I will get the one that
does both so plug that into the earphone
jack their headphone jack output jack
whatever you want to call the 3.5
millimeter jack then plug your
microphone into the microphone slot and
let's see video production come on
recorder
I don't know why I have so many
recordings on here let's see now hit
record and of course i just reinstalled
my phone so allow access mary had a
little lamb stop now if i had external
speakers hooked up to it then i could
just play it out through there but i
have to unplug it to play it and turn
the volume up as well all access mary
had a little lamb see it works now
without the dongle baa baa black sheep
absolutely yep pretty much nothing
didn't work great got a little bit at
the end there it's just kind of weird
shouldn't I gotten anything but there
you have it give your iDevice a ton of
extra functionality for just a buck
something if you're interested this app
was called just re recorder and it was
free in the App Store of course there's
a as everything's going now pay to
unlock other features and whatnot but I
found that works just fine for me Cheers
smile cheese