ipaq recording

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hi all,

i want to record various things whilst out and about, ambience and
noises... at first i thought a cheap mp3 player/recorder would do, but
i've not really been able to find much that comes up to anything more
than 'voice' quality.

on thinking about it, i thought why not use my ipaq - its always with
me and has a gig of memory but i had a feeling that the recording
resolution was gonna be pretty shitty at 8bit 22khz type stuff. i
managed to find a hidden away setting which will up the sample rate to
16bit stereo, but im still not convinced with the onboard mic.

i've seen a bit of bolt on kit you can get but it uses the currently
used card slot and i think is probably overkill. does anyone know if i
can use the stereo headphone jack as a mic input for say a bettery
powered PZM - or maybe even a stereo mic?! (seeing as it thinks it can
record stereo somehow!) or maybe there is a wierd type mic connection i
can plug into the bottom of it (where the sync cable goes). the manual
is pretty skimpy and net searches haven't yielded me too much.

any ideas appreciated.

cheers

Luke

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Luke,

I don't know of any Ipaq's with a mic input (can somebody show me that I'm
wrong?). However, all is not lost. My HP2215 has a reasonably decent mic
(for being a handheld) and can record at 16-bit/44.1KHz - CD quality.

Try these sites for related hardware/software:
http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html
http://www.pocketrec.com/

http://pocketpc.webpark.sk/#download
http://www.pdamusician.com/
http://www.phonature.com:8092/home/index.htm
http://www.pocketpcsoft.net/php/ne [...] type=music
http://vitotechnology.com/en/products/ppc.html
http://www.meloditronic.com/phoenix.php



"LuKeNuKuM" <lukenukum@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1109696929.620090.26620@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> hi all,
>
> i want to record various things whilst out and about, ambience and
> noises... at first i thought a cheap mp3 player/recorder would do, but
> i've not really been able to find much that comes up to anything more
> than 'voice' quality.
>
> on thinking about it, i thought why not use my ipaq - its always with
> me and has a gig of memory but i had a feeling that the recording
> resolution was gonna be pretty shitty at 8bit 22khz type stuff. i
> managed to find a hidden away setting which will up the sample rate to
> 16bit stereo, but im still not convinced with the onboard mic.
>
> i've seen a bit of bolt on kit you can get but it uses the currently
> used card slot and i think is probably overkill. does anyone know if i
> can use the stereo headphone jack as a mic input for say a bettery
> powered PZM - or maybe even a stereo mic?! (seeing as it thinks it can
> record stereo somehow!) or maybe there is a wierd type mic connection i
> can plug into the bottom of it (where the sync cable goes). the manual
> is pretty skimpy and net searches haven't yielded me too much.
>
> any ideas appreciated.
>
> cheers
>
> Luke
>

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LuKeNuKuM <lukenukum@gmail.com> wrote:

>i mentioned mic input because you know the headfones you can get for
>hands-free on a mobile phone? my ipaq is also a phone so i was assuming
>there was some sort of mic jack in the standard output jack?! not sure.

There are a few PocketPC PDAs that have single (mono) mic inputs: the h5100-
and h5500-series iPAQs from HP. The mic input is on the headphone jack
-- it's a tip/ring/ring/sleeve configuration.


--
Len Moskowitz PDAudio, Binaural Mics, Cables, DPA, M-Audio
Core Sound http://www.stealthmicrophones.com
Teaneck, New Jersey USA http://www.core-sound.com
moskowit@core-sound.com Tel: 201-801-0812, FAX: 201-801-0912