My current phone is a Moto G 2014. The stereo mic and speaker is a really nice thing. Motorola unfortunately changed the G 2015 and X Play to Mono output. Did this happen to mic too? This detail is really seldom mentioned in technical data. For the G 2015 my question was positive answered, but I'm considering to buy the Moto X Play because it is a bit faster, has more memory and seems to support ExFAT (does it?) as memory cards bigger than 32 GB are officially supported.
It's easy to test: To record stereo on the G 2014 you need some app that identifies a camcorder if I understood right. Most apps are not capable to record stereo. It works fine using the Titanium recorder when recording mp3. Or just use the internal camera and record a video. Start Titanium recorder recording mp3 or the default Motorola Camera recording video. Speak "Left" in the left speaker and "right" in the right. Connect headphones and replay the result, carefully listening if the sides can acoustically be recognized and sound fine.
Thank you in advance!
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My current phone is a Moto G 2014. The stereo mic and speaker is a really nice thing. Motorola unfortunately changed the G 2015 and X Play to Mono output. Did this happen to mic too? This detail is really seldom mentioned in technical data. For the G 2015 my question was positive answered, but I'm considering to buy the Moto X Play because it is a bit faster, has more memory and seems to support ExFAT (does it?) as memory cards bigger than 32 GB are officially supported.
It's easy to test: To record stereo on the G 2014 you need some app that identifies a camcorder if I understood right. Most apps are not capable to record stereo. It works fine using the Titanium recorder when recording mp3. Or just use the internal camera and record a video. Start Titanium recorder recording mp3 or the default Motorola Camera recording video. Speak "Left" in the left speaker and "right" in the right. Connect headphones and replay the result, carefully listening if the sides can acoustically be recognized and sound fine.
Thank you in advance!
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I tested it. Moto X Play definitely has Stereo Mic. Even MX Player shows Stereo Channels at a bit-rate of 128 kbits/sec.
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I wonder whether somebody has tried to connect a high-quality mic to the mda2 in order to improve recording quality?
Can the device record with two mics in stereo?
Is the plug avalable seperately?
Thanks
V
i'm pretty sure that the mic is mono
Rudegar, thanks. You are right. the mic is mono.
My goal is to improve the sound quality of the recording.
That's exactly why I asked,
"Can the device record with two mics in stereo?"
(Provided one can indeed connect two mics)
Regards,
V
when the headset which include mic is connected the speaker and mic in the device are hardware muted
and cant be used at all
I'll try it again in other words (Sorry for not being precise the first two times. :roll: English is not my native language).
Goal: I need to do quality sound recordings in stereo.
Idea: I would like to connect external SHURE SM58 mics to the mda2.
Can the device record with two mics in stereo?
Is the headset 2,5mm plug avalable seperately?
Thanks
V
yes you can buy a 3.5mm to 2.5mm jack conveter just make sure it also bring out the mic some only do the lineout
still not sure about what you mean with recording in stereo
the mic in the headset is mono
and the mic in the device cant be used at the same time as the mic in the headset
there is no way you can get it to record anything in stereo
unless you can find some SD audio grapper card
you can record in mono and make it joined stereo with an audio program joined stereo is just making both channels play the sound
still not sure about what you mean with recording in stereo
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"recording in stereo" I mean recording with two external microphones at once.
Pls. forget the headset. Please forget the internal mic.
Let's explain it that way:
In order to record in decent quality you traditionally need :
2 mics
A stereo tape recorder
Result:
Tape with 2 channels
(This is stereo BTW)
Now my idea:
replace recorder with mda2
2mics
MDA2
Result:
Wav or mp3 with 2 channels
To set the scene:
1st: Throw away the headset
2nd: dump the internal mic (or at least ignore it altogether!)
"How can one connect 2 mics to the MDA2 in order to record a 2 channel (stereo) wav or MP3?"
Please! Does anybody understand my question? If yes could you native english speaker please help to rephrase it? Thanks
the jack connector in the xda support 2 line out
and 1 line in
there is no way you can connect 2 mics to 1 mono mic in
much in the same way you cant connect a 5.1 surround system to your xda and play movies with surround it have 2 lines out and 5.1 require 6 lines out
same thing with input 1 line == mono
no way you can connect 2 mics
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Thank you!
That was the answer I needed.
But it does not mean, that I am too happy with it.
Regards
V
Hello,
as you all know, the microphone of the Desire HD is terrible when having louder sounds.
i'm going on a motorcycle vacation next week and i would like to make movies in the mountains. Because of the wind, it records crappy sound.
So i want to plug in a microphone (or headset) to record the sound while having the microphone inside my jacket.
does anyone know a solution ? just plugging the handsfree in, does'nt work.
No it wont work. You would need an App to record from the input. Dont think there is any like that around from what I know
Is also not possible to make an app to force the usage of the headset mic.
since it works with calling. I don't care if i had to switch manually between headset mic and the normal setting.
or a app to control the input volume sinds it records to loud. (try recording in a pub)
Good news!
i found a app called LGcamera
it works great on the DHD with external mice
Hi guys,
I'm trying to make some podcast videos and i need your help concerning the audio recording. In my video podcast i have 2 guys walking around the room at a fair distance from the camera so i need to use some sort of external wireless microphone solution connected to my android to pick up their voices at the same time i'm recording the video, because the built-in mic isn't good enough. My problem is that i'm on a low budget and on amazon and ebay, and a decent wireless external microphone solution with 1 or 2 lapel mic's start at 100$ and can get very expensive. Do you know any system like that, that is more affordable? Another way to possibily solve the problem is to try other alternatives, like having each host carry a smartphone with a wired lapel mic and then sync both audios with the video, but i would like to avoid post-production work as much as i can, because i want a fast video creation workflow. Another idea is to use a bluetooth device as an external microphone to pick up audio when you're recording video, but i don't know if that's possible with just 1 or 2 devices at the same time. Do you have any more suggestions?
Thanks in advance
I have no idea why, but suddenly I have noticed that my Moto G will now record in stereo using the "Titanium Recorder" (TR) app. The settings I am using are 48kHz sample rate, 128 Kbps MP3 Stereo, which may be the format that the phone uses to record audio for video clips.
When I last tested the Moto G's capabilities, it seemed only the camera's video sound track could be recorded in stereo; all other apps I tried (6+) could only record in mono, regardless of the settings.
A previous strange experience involved the use of the ASR recorder, where the default settings (66 Kbps Ogg Stereo) allowed me to record one file in stereo. After changing settings in ASR, subsequent files all came out in mono regardless of settings (can't imagine why).
Anyway, I have rebooted the phone since, and TR still is able to record in stereo. However, I am afraid to change any TR settings for fear of the same thing happening with TR as did with ASR.
Fortunately, given the hardware (limitations of mics, etc.), being able to record in 128 Kbps Stereo MP3 is acceptable to me; recording my piano playing came out pretty well, with no noticeable Automatic Gain Control distortions.
Don't know if this has anything to do with the KK 4.4.3 update; it's certainly not mentioned anywhere by Motorola.
Does anyone have any experience in regard to connecting external microphones to the OP5?
The idea behind this is that I want to record classical music with a high dynamic range without any compression or clippings. I'd like to record myself playing the piano both with an HD video and good audio quality or just use it as an audio-only recording device for concerts etc. In the end I'd like to have a recording that gives me at least uncompressed PCM-audio at 16Bit and 44.1kHz as CD quality stereo tracks.
The microphones in question could either be small binaural microphones or a semi-professional setup with a pair of Neumann U67/87 and I'd like to know whether the OP5 can make native use of those microphones, i.e. using its own Analog-to-Digital converter, or whether it is necessary to directly feed a pre-processed digital signal to the phone via USB.
Any pointers to an existing discussion are welcome, just as much as your personal experience, tips and tricks for this kind of set up.
Hi, I have been looking and looking, and it seems that the default camera app doesn't support external mics, but a 3rd party app does, like open camera, but for me, it zooms in a lot when recording.... it sucks
I can now state that it is possible to use external microphones.
I've bought a microphone pre-amp UR22-MK2 by Behringer that puts out a digital signal via USB an using a USB-To-GO adapter, I can feed this into the OP5. The stock camera automatically detects this external audio source and uses it, deactivating the internal microphones.
Unfortunately there are sometimes audible clicks, which do not occur when I record on a PC from the Behringer input. I suspect it's small hickups due to compressing the audio track while recording into an MP4 container.
I wish there was a video app that lets me define lossless audio recording.