

These small mics clip discreetly to a shirt and they’re often used in documentary production. The best mic for recording speech and dialogue for video with your smartphone is a lapel, or lavalier, microphone. Your smartphone’s built-in microphone and voice notes app won’t give you the results you want. To record good audio with your smartphone you need two things: a high quality mic and a professional recording app. Much better! This setup allows for a much more flexible production style. This audio clip was recorded using a microphone plugged into my iPhone.

Lavalier Microphone Your browser does not support the audio tag. If you have a static composition in a quiet place and are able to rig up the iPhone just outside the frame overhead this is a workable solution in a pinch. There is less ambient noise, but this is mostly because the microphones are much closer to the source of my voice. This audio clip was recorded with my iPhone at a distance of about one foot. It's better, but not perfect. iPhone Microphone at 1 Foot Your browser does not support the audio tag. You can hear a lot of ambient noise in the recording. This audio clip was recorded with my Canon 650D at a distance of approximately 5 feet.

A Quick Comparison Camera Microphones at 5 Feet Your browser does not support the audio tag. While in-camera mics are useful as a reference recording they just aren't built for good quality audio. That is, the noise of what you want to hear-the signal-is often mixed with the noises you don't want. They can capture the ambient noise of a scene but they are not capable of making truly usable recordings. In audio terms, the problem with DSLR microphones is that they have a low signal-to-noise ratio. The microphones built into most modern DSLRs are, in a word, pitiful.
Without further ado, here is a complete example for recording audio on the Android via the MediaRecorder API:įinal MediaRecorder recorder = new MediaRecorder() Additionally, the directory being recorded to must already exist before attempting to record to it. For one, I could only get audio to record to the SD card. There were a few bumps along the way besides the horribly out of date MediaRecorder documentation, which was sorely lacking details. After many hours of trying to record audio on my Google Android device, I’ve finally arrived at a workable solution.
