Comments on: FiRe2 Field Recorder (Learning an Endangered Language Part 7) /2012/04/23/fire2-field-recorder-learning-an-endangered-language-part-6/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Will Tuladhar-Douglas /2012/04/23/fire2-field-recorder-learning-an-endangered-language-part-6/comment-page-1/#comment-724233 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:51:25 +0000 /?p=7472#comment-724233 It’s worth noting that the original Fire was designed to work with the excellent Blue Mikey microphone, which sadly only works with iPhones up to the 3gs.

Fire and the Blue Mikey together are an amazing combination. I can leave my phone in my pocket, Blue Mikey sticking out, and record conversations in a crowded shop coming from all sides in several languages and still pick out most of the audio details afterwards. Wonderful wonderful tool, though it does eat up space on the iPhone—so much so that I don’t bother leaving any music on my iPhone any more as it’s far better to whistle to oneself than it is to lose a conversation in the field. So far as I know there still isn’t a similar small, high-quality mike for the later iPhones.

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