iPod iPod as NAGRA

[anniesdomains]

I was thinking about shooting something using my mini-DV camera and figured I may simply need to get another tape recorder like the NAGRA to record the audio track. But waitaminute, I have an iPod! And waitaminute! I have a BELKIN adapter which will enable me to use it to record audio.

Is anyone else doing this? I think the sound recording is great. I'm thinking about getting the BELKIN adapter for external microphones to connect the ipod to a shotgun microphone. It seems like a logical way to get around buying a NAGRA or DAT recorder. Thx

 

[CanadaRAM]

Good idea, bad implementation. The iPod is limited to a 8 KHz sample rate from external input. It's not Belkin's or Griffin's doing, it's Apple's.

I was just reading about a hack for 3rd Gen. iPods that shoves out the Apple OS and installs Linux. The writer was experimenting with Linux recording software. Don't know if I can dig up the article but you may be able to Google it. It was off of one of the linux geek portals.

Your better quality options are, unfortunately, more expensive. The Edirol R-1 looks good (records to compact flash at 24/96), the R-4 even better (records 4 tracks to hard drive). However, neither of them record timecode, so you would have to wild sync with your video.

Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

 

[Cadence]

there's cheap and good machines out there to record to cards WITH timecode. We rented a full kit with boom for about $50 over the weekend!

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

There was an article on installing Linux on Macworld.com last week. It talked about recording sound in, and you can get CD quality recordings from external mics onto the iPod. Returning to the regular iPod interface was just a soft reboot away. This only works on 1st through 3rd generation iPods though. I've thought about doing it to my 2nd gen, but I really have no use.

 

[anniesdomains]

Good idea, bad implementation. The iPod is limited to a 8 KHz sample rate from external input. It's not Belkin's or Griffin's doing, it's Apple's.

I was just reading about a hack for 3rd Gen. iPods that shoves out the Apple OS and installs Linux. The writer was experimenting with Linux recording software. Don't know if I can dig up the article but you may be able to Google it. It was off of one of the linux geek portals.

Your better quality options are, unfortunately, more expensive. The Edirol R-1 looks good (records to compact flash at 24/96), the R-4 even better (records 4 tracks to hard drive). However, neither of them record timecode, so you would have to wild sync with your video.

Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

Hmmm, that's sad to hear. If you can find that article that'd be great. Thx

 

[CanadaRAM]

there's cheap and good machines out there to record to cards WITH timecode. We rented a full kit with boom for about $50 over the weekend!

Brand and model? Link?

 

[Daveway]

Are there any problem with the video and sound being off? How do match it up?

 

[CanadaRAM]

Are there any problem with the video and sound being off? How do match it up?

That's what the conversation about timecode is about. If you are recording video professionally, you use a SMPTE time code on the video, and you use an audio recorder that also records the SMPTE time code; then the audio and video tracks can be locked together.

If you don't have timecode, you have to paste the audio tracks into the video editing software and align them to the action by "hand". This is successful for shorter takes, can be a problem on longer pieces as the timing of the two tracks drift apart.

Generally, home/enthusiast equipment does not support timecode.
More at
http://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
http://www.equipmentemporium.com/Articles/audiosyncplayback.htm
http://www.equipmentemporium.com/timecode.htm
http://www.equipmentemporium.com/audiohi8.htm