iMicrophone iPod iPhone iPad Sensitive Microphone Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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837 words · ~4 min read
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this is the eye microphone no it doesn't go in your eye
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it goes in your eye product so this is
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compatible with um iPhones iPads and
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iPods it performs it can make it so that they can perform double duty as a
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powerful digital voice recorder so what the whoops sorry guys so so what this is
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is an incredible High sensitivity 3.5 mm
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four pole omnidirectional condenser microphone for the iPhone iPad and iPod
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so pretty much you're replacing the crummy microphone that's built into your
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IE device with this one for better voice pickup so a great use for something like
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this would be uh oh yeah look at that they've even got a listing if I was
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going to say business meetings but they've got that on there ideal for voice recording for example lectures
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interviews and business meetings um so for example you've got uh Speak Easy has
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software that allows you to convert
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recorded voice messages into text so you
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could use that or speak naturally speak easy dragon something okay whatever
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someone who remembers what the piece of software is that takes uh your voice and
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turns it into text please leave that in the comments that piece of software it's
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cheap it's like five bucks for the iPod
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um would ideally be able to understand
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your voice better and convert it to text more easily especially in the context of
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a multivoice environment like a meeting or lecture or interview okay features
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incredible High sensitivity RF shielding compact design and premium wind screen
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is included okay uh specifications are here so you can feel free to pause and
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read that should you so desire don't take this out when it's too cold outside
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and we've also got a list of the products it is designed for although I
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suspect it would work just fine in any microphone Jack so let's go ahead and
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open this baby up
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what I'll have to do for you guys is do a couple of audio recording
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samples where I use the integrated microphone on my iPhone 4 versus the IM
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microphone so there's the premium wind screen made of foam I screen the wind
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for
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you also works for that whatever that is
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all right and this is the IM microphone
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itself
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so it has like a very solid feeling construction to it there's the
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microphone
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okay there's the Jack here's what it
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looks like if you put the wind screen on
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it oh it's like totally wearing an
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afro there we go that's on now put that in there now your iPhone
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has an afro okay I'll do the audio samples in a minute don't forget to
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videos so we tested from a distance of about 3et on the IM microphone and
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besides um it being a lot louder with the IM microphone versus the integrated
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one the integrated microphone actually was more clear so it seems like we're
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probably using it in the wrong application we were so close to it in a
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quiet enir maybe that's not what it's intended for so I figured what if I go further away
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and do an audio test instead so the IM microphone is sitting there on the table
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you can just point at it okay and I'm going to go over here
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and I'm going to say something so this is testing the IM
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microphone at a distance of however far away this
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is and this is testing oh okay he hadn't
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hit it yet and this is tting testing the
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integrated microphone from a distance of however far away I am right
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now okay so I'm just going to show you guys the testing here so this is uh one
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audio clip that has both the IM microphone and the integrated microphone
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from a greater distance in it go over here and I'm this is with the ey
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microphone so this is testing the ey microphone at a distance of for far away
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this is
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and this is testing the integrated microphone from a distance of however
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far away I am right now so you can
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clearly here that the integrated
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microphone does not pick up as much sound as the IM microphone although what
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that does mean is it results in a slightly more clear sounding recording
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but it's all a matter of what is your objective if your objective is to catch
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more of the Ambient sound overall more sound then yes the IM microphone is far
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more sensitive in the integrated mic so if you do use your iPhone iPod iPad any
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kind of IE device for a substantial amount of voice recording then something
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like this might not be a bad little pickup