Hooking a dynamic mic to an iPad

[Drone]

As simple as finding an adapter chain for the 3 stripe 3.5mm jack?

[Gregg Juke]

You probably need one of those iRig devices.

What about this guy?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwu0AaBkhXI

Or This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hr3Hw_Eugs

Or This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ06qn0czak

Or This: http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV233 ... -converter (but then you might need another usb to Apple adaptor, maybe Like This: http://www.google.com/#output=search&sc ... 80&bih=823)

Plus, There's This (an interesting article that may pertain to your predicament): http://www.macworld.com/article/1167452 ... k_air.html

GJ

[GooberNumber9]

I use an old M-Audio FastTrack Pro, a powered USB hub, and the Camera Connection Kit and it's awesome. A little pricey and requires the USB hub to be plugged in, and also the FastTrack Pro is no longer being made. I'm sure there are other class-compliant interfaces out there that are similar. A reason to go this route other than a simple analog adapter for the mic in channel is that you can expand it to more inputs and more importantly you get high quality outputs. Just taking analog from the headphone jack of the iPad sounds pretty bad. Hooking up a real interface makes the iPad a music powerhouse.

On the simpler end, did you see this?
http://www.guitarcenter.com/TASCAM-iXZ- ... 2172047.gc

You won't get better ADC performance out of that, but it gives you a lot of flexibility for a much lower price and only one device to worry about.l

[Drone]

Well Apple never make anything easy, got a cable sorted, but I can't make the internal mic shut off.

NB this isn't for studio quality recording, just to get a recording of jam sessions without the internal mic crapping out at the high volumes. I wanted to hook a kick mic to it, to cope with the SPL's.

[silveradodays]

Well Apple never make anything easy, got a cable sorted, but I can't make the internal mic shut off.

NB this isn't for studio quality recording, just to get a recording of jam sessions without the internal mic crapping out at the high volumes. I wanted to hook a kick mic to it, to cope with the SPL's.

Hi all, first post...after years of great reads in the forum I finally can offer some advice!
getting audio into the ipad it's fairly simple, get a 4 pin minijack from some earphones, beware that the lenght has to be right beacuse some are a little bit longer than the ones used by apple.
Find the solder pins and its correlation to the tip and rings in the jack. In this case the tip is left audio out, the first ring after the tip is right audio out, the third ring is earth and the final ring is the mic in input. The mic input needs to see about 1.6k of impedance to work, so solder a resistor of that value (2k works fine) between the pin of the mic input and the pin for the earth.
As it is works great for plugin guitars and basses direct, don't know about dynamic mics straight in. If you want to use it for line signals a pad has to be built. You can also make a kind of Y cable and another female jack conector and keep the headphones in use.
In order to get the input working at full bandwidth you should upgrade to The lattest IOS as this version ditches out the HPF present in the mic input.
Hope this helps, it really is pretty easy. a commercial unit works great and will be more rugged but I find the price too high for such a simple task so easy to DIY.
Getting the CCK and and usb interface it's a whole other world as it gives you a lot of other options, midi, more inputs, etc.
Excuse my bad grammar, english it's not my native language!

[Drone]

So you need 1.6K of straight resistance? In parallel with the dynamic mic?

I confess I didn't try a resistor, I just connected the mic (an SM58) across the 2 pins using a 3xRCA > 3.5mm (3 stripe/4 bands) cable and an XLR to RCA cable. I'll go try this resistor trick.

[percussion boy]

Another way to go on all this is just to get a usb audio interface that's intended for the Ipad, and says so. There is stuff available that's cheaper than the Apogee units.

I use a Roland duo capture ex, although the latency seems kinda high in some situations. i can battery power the Roland or plug it into AC, then its usb out goes into the Ipad's usb camera cable. This gives me two xlrs for mics.

In this scenario, there's no problem getting audio input from the interface's mics into the audio program (Cubasis). However, in some ipad apps (like video programs) I can't use anything but the internal mic. I haven't tried other recording software yet.

Hope this helps.

[Drone]

I did what I should have done before, dug out a spare mixer and monitor and moved my PC up to the practice space.

I used to want to get an iMac, because I liked the OSX interface better, but the iPad has burned me with all Apple's restrictive practices, their ridiculous patent wars, and their forced obsolescence (my iPad 1 is now obsolete), I won't ever buy any Apple hardware (this iPad came via my wifes job), or indeed hardware for the Apple, they are nice and shiny but a real PITA to do anything serious with.

For other location recording, I'm going back to my Android phone, wrapped in a sock, actually it might work better with an external mic.