I want to connect a Sennheiser G3 receiver output to the 3.5mm jack on a Samsung Galaxy S5. I also want the breakout cable to have a 3.5mm jack for headphones. Does anybody have suggestions?
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Make one? Though as soon as you do that some one in the Far East is going to start selling them at $5 :-)
My initial thought was: a damned silly idea as most people would use the Galaxy as the recorder on the talent. OTOH Smart phones are effectively a sub-laptop computer so I can see that cables and adaptors for this sort of thing will appear. (but not until AFTER you have made one ) as they will start to(?) replace the small Zooms and Tascam recorders.
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I am making a short for a venue whose requirements are that it be shot on a smartphone. An external audio device is allowed, but I thought I would see what can be accomplished with the phones' audio.
Yes, I can make one. But any DIY cable smaller than XLR tends to be lacking robustness and reliability.Awarded Best Clear Com Chatter, 2001, PBS Television
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Originally posted by Paul F View PostI am making a short for a venue whose requirements are that it be shot on a smartphone. An external audio device is allowed, but I thought I would see what can be accomplished with the phones' audio.
Originally posted by Paul F View PostYes, I can make one. But any DIY cable smaller than XLR tends to be lacking robustness and reliability.
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While I like to fabricate, and have fabricated avionics for planes that fly higher than 80,000 ft, when making up a 3.5mm cable, anything less than an injection molded boot around the connector is sub-par. Those metal tabs crimped over the cable don't hold up. Heat shrink; even the stuff with the glue pre-applied on the inside, is unsatisfactory and I don't care for the look.
If you have a technique, I'd like to hear about it.Awarded Best Clear Com Chatter, 2001, PBS Television
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The requirement is it be shot on a smart phone? Wow. Are they planning on replacing most of the audio? While there are some circumstances that usable production audio can be recorded on a smart phone, those aren't the norm (Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset comes to mind, but that isn't appropriate for narrative or corporate work). There are ways to get up to two Rode Smart Lavs into a phone. You could also use a VideoMic Me.
Most of the time I record audio separately from my iPhone on to a dedicated audio recorder. You can build a handheld rig that has a frame that you can mount something like a MixPre-3 and run audio to that and then mount your phone on top of that. I'd use a Norbert Sport for this.Audio Product Specialist; DVeStore. A DVXUser forum sponsor.
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Originally posted by Paul F View PostWhile I like to fabricate, and have fabricated avionics for planes that fly higher than 80,000 ft, when making up a 3.5mm cable, anything less than an injection molded boot around the connector is sub-par. Those metal tabs crimped over the cable don't hold up. Heat shrink; even the stuff with the glue pre-applied on the inside, is unsatisfactory and I don't care for the look.
If you have a technique, I'd like to hear about it.
In any case the 3.5 on to the phone is not locking so how robust does the rest of the system need to be?
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