Category: Geeks r Us
Hello all,
Normally I google for apps, but in this case I want something that's going to be very accessible and of course, of good quality. I know many of you hear are good with music, so thought I'd seek help here.
I'm looking for an iPhone app that does at least decent-quality recording, and has multi tracking abilities. My phone's mic is vastly superior to my laptop mics, and I often have to transfer my vocals onto my computer from my phone and it's painstaking. A good-quality recording app would solve most of my problems. I do have a simple multi tracking app, but it somehow makes my recordings sound distorted, no matter how good my microphone is.
Also, I want something that's good at combating background noise and not distorting when instruments are involved. I will be performing at a restaurant soon with a pianist, and we want to do a few little recordings, so we need something of good quality that can deal with chatter and other background noises. Any ideas for me?
Depending on where you place your phone, the built in recorder is nice, I've used it tons when we play out and just want to get an idea what it sounded like. I also have and use gig daddy and four track. The ladder is about 10 bucks or at least it was when I purchased it.
Thank you for both suggestions. Are they both reasonably accessible? By which I mean, can you access most of the features? The buttons don't all have to be clearly labeled or anything, just as long as with fiddling I can figure them out. Do you recommend one over the other? And if you do, why?
Also, does anyone have any general advice about recording both a pianist and a singer with the iPhone, in terms of positioning? I fear getting too much of the piano to the point where there will be distortion, or where you won't be able to hear one singer or the other. The setup, from what I understand, will be pretty basic: I'll be standing just beside the piano, while the accompanist himself (who is also going to be singing quite a bit) will of course be at the piano facing the opposite way as me. Any ideas as to the best place to put the phone so that everything is captured in a reasonably balanced sense? Bearing in mind that we'll be dealing with restaurant noise as well, of course.