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Mike Harrison
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 Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:14 am Post subject: Anyone use Skype on iPad for sessions? |
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If anyone uses Skype on an iPad for conversing with a client while recording, can you tell me whether the iPad's mic picks up sufficiently while sitting on (I guess) your copystand?
Is it better to use headphones to hear the client or does the iPad speaker suffice?
Any issues at all?
Thanks!
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Bish
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:28 am Post subject: |
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I've used both an iPad and an iPhone with Skype for directed sessions on occasion (I usually use Skype on the main system so the client gets audio directly from my chain). I've used regular cans, earbuds and the internal speaker, and all work fine. If you usually wear headphones while recording, I've heard that a single earbud worn under them works quite well.
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:22 am Post subject: |
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If you can hear your iPad's speaker, won't your mic pick it up, as well?
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Ed Fisher
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| Lee Gordon wrote: | | If you can hear your iPad's speaker, won't your mic pick it up, as well? |
Exactly my thought.
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Bish
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| Lee Gordon wrote: | | If you can hear your iPad's speaker, won't your mic pick it up, as well? |
Yeah, but all you have to do is explain what's going on and tell them to just listen during a take... if they do say something, it's because they want to stop you, or re-direct. Obviously, if there's a lot of ambient noise coming through, that's no good... but the natural gating on a Skype link usually kills the audio below a certain level, so no problems.
I dunno... some people will find bones in milk! 
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| Bish wrote: | | I dunno... some people will find bones in milk! |
HA HA!
I find that one of the benefits(?) of getting older is I now can find fault with...almost anything!
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Lee Gordon
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| Bish wrote: | | all you have to do is explain what's going on and tell them to just listen during a take... if they do say something, it's because they want to stop you, or re-direct. |
Ideally, that would be enough. But sometimes they just can't control themselves, especially if it's a conference call and there's more than one "director" listening in. And I can also recall having clients in the studio, sitting in on sessions that I both voiced and ran the board, back in my radio days. On more than one occasion, I have had the visitor exclaim "great!" or "perfect!" at the end of a take they liked -- except that they jumped the gun and talked over the last word or two of the read. And in those days, it was necessary to record a new last line and physically splice it in. Some clients are easier to train than others.
Hey! What's this bone doing in my milk?!? 
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