iPhone Apps for On-The-Go Recording

by Brian Casel | March 17, 2009 | Add Comment

In honor of today’s official iPhone 3.0 announcement, I’m going to delve into the techy / geeky side of things here at Serve The Song. I recently came across a great review of two iPhone apps for mobile audio recording. The two iphone apps are iTalk and Speakeasy and the review comes from Cool Hunting (Thanks @Hypogene!). These apps can be great for songwriters who need to lay down a quick idea when they’re away from their home recording set up. iPhone users, you can now rest assured you won’t lose those songwriting ideas when they come to you while you’re out and about.

Here’s a quote from the review:

So, who comes out a hair ahead in this photo finish? Both apps are great. If you’re looking for something purely functional, iTalk is the way to go. If you want some bells and whistles, and you don’t mind waiting for the inexplicable delays in file transfer, then SpeakEasy is the app for you.

Quick, on-the-go recording on the iphone can be extremely useful to the tech-savvy songwriter. Maybe you just need to hum a melody you have swirling around your head. Perhaps you just thought of an awesome lyric for a song and you can’t find a pen and paper. Or you’re browsing a guitar shop and stumbled upon a cool chord progression while testing a guitar. Whip out your iPhone, hit record, and save that golden idea in your pocket! When you get home later, play it back and flesh out the idea into a full song!

iPod Recorder

For those of you who haven’t shelled out the cash for the iPhone yet, but you own an iPod, I can personally recommend a great add-on for recording audio strait to your iPod. It’s the Belkin TuneTalkTM Stereo Voice Recorder for iPod. That’s right – two small microphones nicely placed in an XY configuration give you a surprisingly decent stereo recording. Your recordings are saved strait to your iPod as wav files, which you can then transfer to your computer. It even has a switch to add additional compression to the recording.

I have had a ton of great use out of my iPod recorder, and the iPhone recording apps certainly seem like useful tools in the mobile songwriter’s arsenal as well.

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