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Recording Band Practice w/ iOS device. Possible multi-channel?

Taustin Powers

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Oct 7, 2002
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I play in a 7 piece funk band with drums, guitar, bass, keys, brass and vocals. I want to do some semi-decent recording of our practice.

So far, I use the voice recorder app on my iPhone 11 Pro. Just put it in a corner and let it record. It works surprisingly well! Are there other apps I should look at for this? Something that allows some minor EQ'ing or compression maybe?

Also, is there a small hardware mixer/interface that I can hook up to my iPad via Lightning to do simultaneous multi-channel recording in Garage Band or something? Maybe four or five inputs, so I can place a handful of mics all over the room and mix the tracks later? That way I'd have one track with focus on drums, one with bass/guitar, and so on.

My cheap work-around would be to place several iPhones and iPads all over the room, use the voice recorder, and import all the tracks to Garage Band later.