Comments on: ThumbTack microphone makes iPod voice recording cute http://www.slashgear.com/thumbtack-microphone-makes-ipod-voice-recording-cute-1938287/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: adam_glazier http://www.slashgear.com/thumbtack-microphone-makes-ipod-voice-recording-cute-1938287/#comment-58696 adam_glazier Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:41 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=38287#comment-58696 I bought one of these mic’s thinking that it would be great for my iPhone. It is clearly meant for a device that doesn’t already have a built in mic, like an iPod Nano.

I did tests using the built-in iPhone 3G mic against the thumbtack mic. The Thumbtack boosts levels overall about 2dB more than the built-in. But the down side is that the Thumbtack clips and compresses the sound very harshly at normal or high volumes.

Overall, it’s a total waist if you have an iPhone or iPod touch with a built-in mic. I really wanted it to work and did the best I could to make sure to use the same distances and volumes from my sound sources.

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