[iyonix-support] Re: Voice recording

  • From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:55:31 +0100

In article <fe9bf0f34e.davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4ef3d0d923riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I've been playing around with AudioIn, Christian Ludlam's Audio
> > recorder. I connected a "Dynamic mic" to the Mic socket at the rear of
> > the Aria and began recording my voice. I dragged the resultant WAV
> > file over WavEdit but no sound was output. The program records/samples
> > data correctly from the internal CDROM. Could this be due to the wrong
> > type of microphone? None of the input and outputs are muted in the
> > Sound configuration.

> The Iyonix's mic input is a bit of a misnomer.  It isn't sensitive
> enough to record directly from a microphone at proper levels.

> Also, there may be another problem, depending on the type of mic
> you have: some mics expect to receive power from the host to work
> an inbuilt preamplifier.  The Iyonix doesn't provide power.  Such
> microphones would therefore appear to provide no signal at all.

Dynamic Mics shouldn't need external power but they do have fairly low
level output.  An electret, with internal battery, should work.

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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11 

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