Ipod TRRS breakout cable or 30 pin?

[cbarrett92]

Check your wiring with this:

bent-tronics.com blog: Audio breakout cable for ipod/iphone

It seems to me that if everything is wired correctly, then you do not have enough gain from the mic to have it show up on the iPod. Did you try slowly ramping up the volume with a line level source?

[BEEEEE]

Hi Chris,

No I haven't tried adding gain yet... I'll give it a try.
I have a Presonus tube preamp to boost the signal. Maybe that'll do the trick. (but would this be safe for the ipod?)
I did visit the bentronics site to double check my wiring and peruse through comments. It seemed like everyone else there had success with running an sm58 mic direct without adding gain. Hmm, oh well.
Could the 3.1 update have anything to do with this?

Also, I noticed you were going to attempt making an interface for your iphone using the 30-pin "podbreakout" board.
Any luck?

And finally... (last question) when adding a capacitor to block the dc, where do you place it? Ground to hot? Or just spliced in line with the hot wire only? I bought a 10uF 35V electrolytic capacitor. I noticed that the voltage was less on the one bentronics recommends. Will this hurt anything?

[BEEEEE]

Everything works great now. No gain needed.
I guess the Ipod didn't recognize it the first time...
I ran my sm58 through the presonus tubepre, but got no signal.
Next I ran it through a small mixer and finally got a signal.
After that I ran the mic direct into the Ipod and it was instantly recognized and had plenty of gain.
I'm not worried about the capacitor either.... The current is not enough to do damage, plus I won't be using the mic too often.

Is there an app that lets you control gain? 4 track?
It would be nice to have a mobile recording setup with the ability to add tracks later. I'm thinking this would be a good purchase.

[Figshta]

Is there an app that lets you control gain? 4 track?
It would be nice to have a mobile recording setup with the ability to add tracks later. I'm thinking this would be a good purchase.

Yes, Try FiRe - Field Recorder by Audiofile Engineering. It's great! It has +24db of gain boost and accurate realtime metering.

It has an overdub feature but it is not a multi-track recorder.