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Anecdata, but a number of people in the online guitar group I'm in report that their iDevice can't really hear their bass guitar. My iPad Pro can, indeed, hear
by chris_st 5y ago
Anecdata, but a number of people in the online guitar group I'm in report that their iDevice can't really hear their bass guitar. My iPad Pro can, indeed, hear my bass fairly well, but I don't use it for recording the bass (long story).
The microphone is, as I understand it, optimized for voice communication, since its main original job is to be a telephone.
- earthnail 5y agoApple has fairly strong incentives to improve recording quality overall, including just better audio quality for the videos you shoot. Given the form factor of the iPhones, I'm frankly blown away by the sound quality you get from them. The SPL they can handle is absurd. Admittedly, your comment made me curious - I think I might have to annoy my neighbours with some bass playing this evening. In my experience, recording with my iPhone Xs, the bass frequencies of my synth are picked up extremely well. If the bass is indeed lacking, maybe we can recover some of it algorithmically. I'm not thinking about EQing, more like having a fantastic paper idea for some good academic work :-).
- chris_st 5y agoVery cool! Just tried my bass into my iPhone 11 Pro max, recorded okay, but Tape It identified it as keyboards.
- earthnail 5y agoOoops :D. I'll take the version 1.0 excuse card if I may :D. All kidding aside, we know our instrument detection has room for improvement. But you gotta start somewhere :).
- kall 5y agoAren‘t there two types of microphone in the apple world? You have "studio grade microphones" on, I think, the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro, and just plain microphones on anything else. It‘s a marketing term like Retina display but I assume that it means entirely different classes of mic hardware in terms of frequency response etc. If that‘s the case, they should definitely put it in the iPhone Pro as well.