Comments on: Improving Audio in Nokia N95 Videos - External Microphone

By: steve Garfield

steve Garfield — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:55:47 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I already made one failed visit to Radio Shack to build this. Going back today.

Thanks again,
–Steve

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:09:38 +0000

This is an amazing post, with an amazing content. The post that reutersmojo has written isn’t very detailed, since I would like to see some links to the products like the mic and tripod. Also, what is the special adapter? Thanks!

By: alec dorling

alec dorling — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:21:18 +0000

I have seen someone on a QiK video using a BLUETOOTH microphone which they hold in front of the interviewee like a normal microphone.

Has anyone seen or know of this as a solution?

By: shelbinator

shelbinator — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:40 +0000

Oh, good point about the dynamic mics, I hadn’t even thought about those. I busted out my cheapo ATR20 and tested the theory, but there’s a catch: if you plug a dynamic mic into the cable, and then plug the cable into the N95, you get “Accessory not supported,” at least on my model N95 and with the ATR20. I don’t know why. But, if you plug the cable into the phone first without the microphone attached, you will get the choice to select “Headset” and then you can plug the dynamic mic into the cord/adapters and record successfully from then on. However, the audio has a bit of a buzz to it, so I’d still highly recommend going with a powered mic of some kind.

Nokia really oughta be giving us some free shwag for all this work cleaning up after them.