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The problem is that you're trying to record relatively quiet sounds that >99% of people would consider undesirable background noise, so many consumer devices wi
by jdietrich 2y ago
The problem is that you're trying to record relatively quiet sounds that >99% of people would consider undesirable background noise, so many consumer devices will default to filtering out those sounds and do an excellent job. It would be quite easy for Apple to add a "nature sounds" mode to the recording app and work their computational magic in reverse, but I'm not sure that idea would occur to anyone in a design meeting or make it through review.
If you do want to record those kinds of sounds, the term of art is "field recording" and there's tons of good information available on how to do it well.
- n144q 2y agoI believe such a setting exists in the control center for video calls, not sure about recording.
- a1o 2y agoYes, I understand. Currently the way I do is I use my laptop, a T14s, set it to power efficiency (so it barely turns the fans), turn on Audacity, and use an old headset that has a microphone, and a somehow very long cable - the actual rubber on the headset is long gone and I never replaced it. It serves me well but requires a backpack and it's a weird setup - but it works. I occasionally make games, and it's usually a bit hard to find nice chill nature and environment sounds that have a good quality, are calm and are royalty free (and cheap or free), so I end up capturing these sounds myself.