{"id":5067,"date":"2024-01-06T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2024-01-06T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T07:03:15","slug":"mobileviews-mini-podcast-41-testing-3-microphones-to-record-a-podcast-in-a-busy-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/06\/mobileviews-mini-podcast-41-testing-3-microphones-to-record-a-podcast-in-a-busy-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews mini-podcast 41: Testing 3 microphones to record a podcast in a busy restaurant with Paul Lawler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews\/MobileFoods mini-podcast 41: Testing three microphones for field podcasting with Paul Lawler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=5pg9j-1542484-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minipodcast41-paullawler-20240105-300x258.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minipodcast41-paullawler-20240105-300x258.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minipodcast41-paullawler-20240105-768x660.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minipodcast41-paullawler-20240105-624x536.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/minipodcast41-paullawler-20240105.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richchip Bluetooth microphone (top) and Richchip wireless lavalier microphone pair with USB-C receiver (bottom)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For this recorded-in-person podcast, I was joined by Paul Lawler at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heavenly-hawaiikai.com\/\">Heavenly Island Lifestyle<\/a> restaurant in East Honolulu where he had the Bibimbap plate and I had a Chicken Katsu plate for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of this mini-podcast was to field test three microphones in a busy noisy restaurant<\/p>\n<p>We used:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iPhone 15 Pro Max built-in microphone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mytekcentral.com\/product-RICHCHIP.html\">Richchip Bluetooth wireless microphone<\/a> connected to an iPhone 15 Pro Max. This is a single\u00a0 microphone designed to be used as a lavalier clipped to a collar. However, for this test, I placed the mic in between us with an 18 to 24 inch distance from the mic to each of us.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nearstream.us\/awm10t\"> Nearstream AWM10T<\/a> wireless lavalier pair of microphones connected to a Google Pixel 7a. In prior tests, I found that Nearstream recordings were nearly inaudible when using an iPhone.\u00a0 However, it produced acceptable audio volume when used with an Android phone. Each mic was clipped to a shirt collar roughly 6 to 7 inches from the speaker&#8217;s mouth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All three audio files were processed by <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.adobe.com\/enhance\">Adobe Podcast Enhance<\/a> (a cloud based service). Generally speaking, my opinion is that the best post-processed audio came from the Nearstream lav mic pair. In all cases, my speech had the most audio aliasing artifacts while Paul&#8217;s speech sounded much better than mine. I suspect it has something to do with our respective &#8220;timbre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Our actual discussions were mostly about Paul&#8217;s recent 3D printing efforts and aspects of Adobe Podcast Enhance and Adobe Podcast Studio beta.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5070\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lawler-3d-dragon-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lawler-3d-dragon-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lawler-3d-dragon-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lawler-3d-dragon-624x468.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lawler-3d-dragon.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lawler&#8217;s 3D printed dragon with articulated joints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5071\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-bibimbap-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-bibimbap-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-bibimbap-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-bibimbap-624x468.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-bibimbap.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bibimbap plate. Heavenly Island Lifestyle restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5072\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-chickenkastsu-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-chickenkastsu-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-chickenkastsu-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-chickenkastsu-624x468.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/heavenly-chickenkastsu.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken Katsu plate. Heavenly Island Lifestyle restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&amp;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&amp;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ToddOgasawara\/podcasts\u201d\">MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d&lt;\/a\">MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this recorded-in-person podcast, I was joined by Paul Lawler at the Heavenly Island Lifestyle restaurant in East Honolulu where he had the Bibimbap plate and I had a Chicken Katsu plate for lunch. The main purpose of this mini-podcast was to field test three microphones in a busy noisy restaurant We used: An iPhone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-1jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}