J.P.'s Gear Review v2.0 - Ep. 6 - Professional(-ish) audio recording from your phone?!?
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Is it possible to sound professional(-ish) when recording audio and video through your smartphone? Absolutely! There's a bunch of options out there for every budgets and every needs. Let's explore a few of them, and deep dive on the microphone I ended up pruchasing and how I set it up to record bass and guitar straight from the amp. The prices mentioned are, as usual, in Can eh dian Dollars. A word of warning, though: I am limited by the devices (microphones and smartphones) I actually own. I am an Android user, so I cannot do a full review for Apple users since I do not have an iDevice to test with. Smartphone evolution, a (very) abridged version Note: devices like Blackberry, Palm Pilot, and PDAs are excluded. They follow a similar, parallel evolution, but the intent of these devices was mainly business use, not "standard home use". The typical use-case for mobile phones drastically changed over the last 15 years. Calling and texting was pretty much the only thing