iPad And Yeti – High Quality Recording On The iPad

by Paul Colligan on July 17, 2010

We’ve chatted about, and I’ve written about the iPad and the Yeti Microphone from Blue Microphones.  As a matter of fact, we produced an episode of Internet Marketing This Week using nothing but the iPad and a Yeti to record the five participants.  It is a great combo indeed.

Several of you have asked for a video on the iPad and the Yeti.  Here it is:

Let me get this straight – the Yeti is an incredible microphone. The sound is amazing and the multiple recording options (there is a knob that sets the thing to record a single person, two people across from each other, a whole room, etc.) make this my default for everything I do on my desktop.

But, it’s also my default for the road. One iPad, one Yeti and the connection kit and I’m ready to record anything I might need outside of the world headquarters for Colligan.com.

The audio program used doesn’t matter – pick the one that makes the most sense to you. But, microphone wise, pick the Yeti.

You need the traditional Apple Camera Connection kit to connect your iPad to any USB microphone – as shown in the video.

Awesome.

Tagged as: blue yeti, ipad connection kit, ipad recording, yeti microphone

  • http://twitter.com/MikeSigers Mike Sigers

    Cool! I love my Yeti even more than I loved the Snowball.

    Just don't love the iPad as much as my laptop … yet ;-)

  • Gideon Shalwick

    Nice video Paul!

    Have you figured out yet how to do screen recordings with the iPad?

    Cos that would rock!

    Like, imagine a ScreenFlow app on there, combined with your mic solution. How cool would that be!?

    Talk soon!

    Gideon Shalwick

  • paulcolligan

    Do you think you're on that path?

  • paulcolligan

    No screen recording apps for the iPad that I've found yet – and I don't even know if it would be a great idea out the shoot – she really is more a content consumption than creation device.

  • http://firephil.org zachishi

    If you jailbreak it you can capture the vga display out.

  • paulcolligan

    Good point.

  • http://firephil.org zachishi

    Paul any good cases you have tried besides the Apple flip top. I just want something to protect it and keep the kids from scratching the back.

  • paulcolligan

    Got a review coming on one – but that's not gonna meet the kiddo needs. Sorry, can't help there (at this point).

  • http://twitter.com/MikeSigers Mike Sigers

    Not really.

    Not an Apple fan. Don't really want “an iPod Touch on steroids.”

    Love the muscle behind my laptop and love my desktop even more.

    I like Sound Forge more than any audio recording app. I need to be able to do teleseminars. I need to be able to use PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker and Camtasia and a few other select “tools” that only work in the Windows environ.

    Aside from that, they're 2 or 3 generations away from a device that will do all that I want … not need, want ;-)

  • paulcolligan

    I don't see the ipad as a laptop replacement by any means. My angle on it is much different.

  • Augusty9

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    TransportationWatch is built on Visual Fusion software from IDV Solutions. Visual Fusion is used to quickly build business intelligence applications that unite disparate data into interactive web-based data visualizations (maps, timelines, and analytics) for superior context, rapid insight, and decisive action.

    “More and more organizations are adopting touch-enabled devices in the enterprise,” commented Ian Clemens, IDV Solutions CTO. “Many of our customers are interested in an iPad version of Visual Fusion. TransportationWatch is touch computing in action.”

    TransportationWatch leverages the power of Bing Maps for displaying all the interactive content in the context of location. This public version of data sources commonly used by government agencies presents a cross section of data, such as seaports, airports, current weather, historic hurricanes, and nautical charts. TransportationWatch also has a Silverlight version counterpart for users without access to a touch-enabled device, and the application smartly determines which of the two versions to load based on the user’s browser. The application is open to the public and available at http://vfdemo.idvsolutions.com/transportation/ .

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  • Ruincharge

    Do you know if it is possible to make a phone call (using google voice ) and record the audio at the same time?

    If you haven't attempted it yet I think it would make for a great video.

    Thanks, Kevin

  • paulcolligan

    At this point with mono tasking, not possible …

  • http://twitter.com/dbabbage Duncan Babbage

    For taking your Yeti on the road, have you found a good carry case for it?

  • paulcolligan

    No I have not. If you find one, please let us know.

  • Litjd21

    When recording sound with the yeti, or any recording program, are you able to then sink the recording back on your computer/ email the recorded file?

  • http://twitter.com/dbabbage Duncan Babbage

    Yes, easily. The exact process depends on the audio recording application you use.

    Note however that since the iOS 4.2 update that recently came out, you can no longer use a Yeti plugged directly into an iPad, as Apple have reduced the amount of power external devices can draw. With the Yeti, and many other devices like cameras and card readers, the iPad now just gives an error message and refuses to cooperate. You can still use the Yeti with an iPad if you connect it via a powered hub, but since this requires plugging the hub into a wall socket, it reduces the portability of the setup. This issue has been reported to Apple as a bug, but it is unknown whether Apple regards it as a bug that will be fixed, or just as a change to the way the camera connection kit operates.

  • Cox Will03

    Got the connection kit, the blue yeti, and iPad…set up and got message not enough power. Bought mike specifically for iPad to record 'on the hoof'. Got loads of other recording kit..Korg, yamaha, etc…just thought, after reading glowing reports on utube this was a step forwards…why?

  • dbabbage

    See my comment below from ~1 month ago. Since iOS 4.2, you have to plug the Yeti into a powered hub to record with the iPad. This has been reported to Apple as a bug, but they are still silent on whether it will again be supported.

  • paulcolligan

    No idea why. It's been no problem for me.

  • paulcolligan

    Ahhh – That's it. Thanks!

  • Mike

    I have heard that there have been some issues with the new operating system limiting the power to the USB port, and that There have been issues where devices that previously worked (in particular CF card readers) no longer work because of inadequate current. Any comments?

  • paulcolligan

    Haven't seen any problems on this end – but I hardly run a lab ;-)

  • Justin

    Ok so I found this video to be very helpful in me deciding to buy the camera kit. I already had an iPad and a Yeti. However, in all of the videos people are covering on this integration on configuring the two elements together they all seem to miss one thing…. No one double checks if what is being recorded is truly the yeti mic or in fact the onboard mic. For example, one gentleman pulled up the blue fire app, plugged into the cam kit and hit record. While speaking into the mic you can see the meters flutter. But this becomes apparent to know that the yeti mic was not getting the audio signal, because it would have increased in the meter. I only found this out after having some issues with this process myself. I went out and bought the kit and first thing I did was run a test. Which was hitting record and tapping the yeti to see if it reads in the meters stronger then the onboard mic. So say that the upgrade and lack of power is the reason for this EPIC fail cause I got that error message too. BUT for all of you who believes this config. truly works, Please do that test. You could have been capturing the sound of the onboard mic the whole time. Now if I am doing something wrong because someone was successful in testing true audio from the mic element then please advise.

  • dbabbage

    Do you think we're ALL idiots? The use of the mute button is an easy check as to which audio input is being used. Prior to the software update, plugging in the Yeti would immediately use the Yeti, for both audio input AND output (via the headphone jack under the base). Not after the update, unless as has been stated a number of times you use a powered hub, in which case you again get the behaviour described in the earlier part of this comment.

  • paulcolligan

    We did double check back then and it worked. Haven't done much with it since then though so I don't know if anything has changed in more recent releases – as some of these comments might suggest.

  • paulcolligan

    There we go.

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