Michael: New Gear for Recording Audio with your Smartphone

Posted September 22, 2016
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Shooting and editing stories on your iPhone or other smartphone can be great.  They are lightweight, you can take them anywhere, the picture quality is fantastic, you can upload to the Internet; but that doesn't mean that they don't have their drawbacks.  One major drawback of working with your smartphone is recording audio -- particularly narration for your finished piece.

Michael, with the help of some of our students from BFBS, has some new gear for your kit to make recording narration on that smartphone a piece of cake, and with great results.

 


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