iPhone 5 stereo audio recording line in...

[travisbrown]

Probably need to wait for Apogee, Line 6 to update their iOS interfaces unless you use a Lightning adaptor.

[AllAboutTone]

Originally Posted by musiciscool

Is it possible on this iPhone?

Let's hope not !!!

[halcyo]

Originally Posted by AllAboutTone

Let's hope not !!!

Why do we hope not?!

[AllAboutTone]

Originally Posted by halcyo

Why do we hope not?!

It's a iphone, a cell phone with data for email or web,
It already has a audio recorder on it, why do you need stereo? then you would need stereo mics not one inch away from another to get a decent effect.

Beside they make plenty of digital recorders out there with fire wire that would blow it away.

Apple is not stupid, they want you to download from itunes not upload off a line in, that would be like a iphone/cass/CD deck etc.

[musiciscool]

I have a stereo mic I used to use with a minidisc recorder. If the iPhone line in allowed recording in stereo, then it's video would be sweet indeed. Also, using it for recording a gig would be wonderful. Why shouldn't they allow the line in to be stereo? Is it to difficult to engineer?

[travisbrown]

Originally Posted by musiciscool

[...] Why shouldn't they allow the line in to be stereo? Is it to difficult to engineer?

Because then you'd have to have a custom miniplug connector. Right now it has four connections: ground, headphone out L and R, and mono mic input. This is a standard configuration and a common part. They'd have to otherwise build something proprietary, or have a second connection. And really, how much demand will there be for it? And even more so, how much demand for pro quality and the increased price? I mean, my Cirrus Logic stock would thank you, but it would be something that wouldn't be used by 99.999% of the iPhone or iPad users. If it cost Apple $5 more to put in, and they sell 10M iPhones while maintaining their last-model pricing (as they are prone to do), they'd be giving up $50M in revenue so a couple Gearslutz can make some stereo line-in recordings.

Better to let a auxiliary device handle it through the digi i/o. Alesis, Apogee, Mackie, L6, various other companies all make devices that integrate with the dock connector.

What would have been interesting (and probably more technologically viable), but even more esoteric, would be the optical i/o that's embedded in the MacBook Pro mini plug jacks.

But using my iPhone for quick line-in two track recordings is handy. I have a Microtrack that really doesn't get used all that often anymore unless I need to spot record acoustically with a mic.

[AllAboutTone]

I should have stated in this digital world that we live in, everything is digital except the headphone, why would they put a analog input when they drive on digital, if anything they would have a optical in etc.

[quiztones]

There are plenty of stereo input accessories for iPhone.

Microphones that use the headphone jack will always mono, but accessories (mics, interfaces, etc.) that use the 30-pin connector (or now the Lightening connector), can record in stereo.

[turtlejon]

The 30 pin dock connector on 4/4s has only mono analog line in. That is why none of the previous iPhone audio accessories work with the 4/4s. Any of the stereo accessories for the 4 have their own a/d, built in. The 5 has a tiny dock connector, which is supposedly all digital, i.e. no analog input. It will transfer data much faster back and forth from the computer though.
Would love to see a high end solution for portable recording, of course.

[bishopdante]

Hopefully this Lightning Connector thing will allow somebody to build a decent box with XLRs and phantom power so that you can finally use an iOS device as a proper multichannel location recorder. It does seem somewhat surprising that it's been half a decade and nobody has built the proper box / app. It would rule.

The old 30 pin dock connector did indeed support a stereo line in, you could buy a socket and solder yourself up an adapter.

http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N...r_pinout.shtml Pins 5 & 6 are L & R line level.