CD-quality audio recording – on your Android phone
Darren Yates looks at how to record old-school analog audio into your mobile device.
Over the last year or so, some of the big names in tech, including Google, Sony and Qualcomm, have been redesigning mobile sound to improve the output quality of short-range wireless audio. But what about capturing high-quality analog audio? With often little more than a basic built-in microphone for voice-grade sound, many Android devices are far better at pumping out near-CD-quality audio than they are at capturing it. However, in many cases with the right combination of software and hardware, you can fix this imbalance and turn your Android device into an excellent multi-channel digital audio recorder, good enough to record music, podcasts and more.
DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDERS
The 1960s might have sparked a social revolution, but it was also a massive game-changer in audio technology. The first modern silicon transistors were hitting the market at around the same time that Philips launched the ‘Compact Cassette’ and the combination proved electric. Before then, the idea of a ‘portable audio recording device’ was a bit like the first portable computers – they might’ve had a handle but if you carried one often, you didn’t need a gym membership. Still, portable audio recorders quickly shrank from suitcase size to shoebox size and about one-tenth the weight. Through
