Record with the new iPod (5g)?

is it the first gen iPod? If not, I use this bad boy to record classes, I don't konw about a whole band though.

 

From the specs on the apple website, the new 5g will record line-in at decent qualities (unlike previous ipods) but you need an accessory to do it. And since the 5G did away with the extra headphone port plugin thingy, all the accessories that worked with the old ipods won't work with the new one. And since the 5G has only been out about a month now, none of the accessories for it have been adapted and released yet aside from a few cases.

I've been following it pretty closely because I'm extrememly interested in what kind of recording capabilities the 5g will have. That was the one thing that I didn't like about the previous ipods, that they could only record with a crummy attachment mic and at low qualities.

I'd say give it another month, and sometime around the christmas holiday we should be seeing a lot of new Ipod accessories.

 

The 5G will use the dock connector for the recording inputs. If you wanted to hack up a dock cable you could use the dock pinout to break it out to a stereo jack. The iPodLinux project supports recording on the older iPods and they used the dock connector input.

http://ipodlinux.org/Dock_Connector

 

Possibly, I know the older ipods were able to record using the pinout on the bottom (through ipod linux) but the information about the specific pins might have changed for a 5G as I know a lot of the hardware is different, to be able to support the video playback through the dock as well. The current 5G docks certainly don't have any "line in" function, and there's nothing in the menus that start a recording so the feature must be activated by either a certain kind of added hardware or maybe a future firmware update. And Linux for the 5G is far away

The sites I always check are:

www.appleinsider.com
www.ipodhacks.com
www.thinksecret.com
www.ilounge.com

 

I believe the older iriver hd 120 allows for excellent recording using an external mic, as well as the edirol r-1 and marantz.

 

Do you have a source for the 5G dock pinout? There are unused/unassigned pins on the dock connector and the Dock connector already has 3 video-out pins. see the link I provided that shows:

8 Video Out - Composite Video
9 S-Video Chrominance
10 S-Video Luminance

I haven't had my paws on a 5G but I have read references to the voice record feature on some of the boards, and it sounded like it was in the menus. Call it "voice record" or not, the Apple lit for the 5G states that it will do 16/44.1 stereo.

 

I do have one of the new 5Gs and don't see any kind of recording function in the menus anywhere. I don't have the dock though, so maybe if it's plugged into the dock that becomes available? I haven't heard any mention of that though.

I haven't heard anything about the new pinout either, but some things might have changed from the old one since I know they dropped firewire support for transfers and the video out before could only show the slideshows and nothing else. It must be mostly the same though since I'm pretty sure the old docks work with the 5Gs. I don't know what S-Video Chrominance and S-Video Luminance would be exactly though

 

wont you need a phantom power supply for that mic before it goes into the ipod??

 

Any more developments on this? I'm considering getting the new iPod (video) and would like to record live music using an external mic, but don't want to do it in a way where I have to download add'l software or anything like that. I'm looking for a clean and easy way to do this.

Anyone? Thx!

 

Are you saying that there won't be add'l software required?

Do you think that with a good mic, the recording quality will be as good as minidisc?

 

Check out Iaudio stuff. I have an M3, 20 gb with line-in recording to mp3 up to 320 kbs. Straight from the desk, sounds great. No mic-in though....

CHeers Rody