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When to use an external microphone or recorder to make your podcasts
Thanks for the nice article. Speaking as a radio reporter with the BBC for over 30 years, I’d also suggest another couple of mics to try: the Shure MV88 and its new version, the Mv88+ - they both plug in through the lightning connector. The + gives you real time monitoring of the output of the phone meaning you can use it to broadcast live on or hear a contributor down the line when using a VoIP app such as Luci Live. The other is the irig Pro HD or Pro Duo which gives you one or two mic inputs (plus all sorts of other audio inputs such as XLR, 6.3mm etc). Of course you then need to buy another mic to plug into it but it works really well with a studio mic such as the Rode NT1a or the Sennheiser MK4 (both phantom power mics).
I’d also suggest you look at the Bluetooth mic called the MikMe - I’ve recorded programmes for BBC World Service Radio using just the MikMe and my phone. I’ve edited whole programmes on the Ferrite multi track audio editor app too - think Adobe Audition on a phone. If you want to hear the quality of the mic you could hear it being used on a podcast series I made https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06gqq99 which was recorded in the UK and Egypt and edited on an iPhone X using Ferrite.
And for those of us without all those dollars or pounds: I’d suggest two things - the internal mic of the iPhone with a cheap 50mm windshield from Amazon or - for single contributor ‘rants’ - the bundled earbuds and their online mic. Both of these come into their own if you’re recording outside. The background atmos does away with the mic limitations and is perfectly ‘broadcast quality’. At a guess I’d say I’ve used the internal iPhone mic for 80% of the live and recorded pieces I’ve done over the last ten years (at a conservative guess that would equate to about 5000 pieces of radio). If you want to find out more about the mobile journalism work I and my colleagues and friends are working on you could do worse than follow @marcsettle and @documentally. I’m @nickgarnettbbc on Twitter. If anyone wants to get in touch with me or the others, or needs any help getting the best out of their phones, we’ll always do our best to help.
