I love Black Friday! My wife would say that I love it a little too much. I agree with her. One of the cool tools that I was able to purchase was a Samson Meteor Mic. I had been looking at this one for quite some time. When I saw it on a lightning special for just $40 I bought it for school.
The reason that I wanted it was that I was hoping to be able to connect it to an iPad and use it to record the audio to our daily news announcements that our students record everyday. I read that you could do this, but you needed three things; the microphone, an Apple Lightning to USB camera cable, and a powered USB hub(not enough power comes out of the newer iPads).
I put these things together with my 4th gen iPad to see if it would work. It didn't. The iPad didn't allow me to stop recording the video. I pulled the cable out, but it didn't save anything that I tried to record before pulling the cable out. Needless to say I was a little disappointed.
As I hung my head in disappointment I spied my iPhone 6 Plus on the floor next to me. Why not try that? It couldn't hurt so I tried it out. Success! It worked like a charm. But why didn't it work on my iPad? I think that I need to take some time and try it with different iterations of iPads and iPhones. I also think that my powered USB is a little chintzy. I think that I need to try it with a more robust one.
The reason that I wanted it was that I was hoping to be able to connect it to an iPad and use it to record the audio to our daily news announcements that our students record everyday. I read that you could do this, but you needed three things; the microphone, an Apple Lightning to USB camera cable, and a powered USB hub(not enough power comes out of the newer iPads).
I put these things together with my 4th gen iPad to see if it would work. It didn't. The iPad didn't allow me to stop recording the video. I pulled the cable out, but it didn't save anything that I tried to record before pulling the cable out. Needless to say I was a little disappointed.
As I hung my head in disappointment I spied my iPhone 6 Plus on the floor next to me. Why not try that? It couldn't hurt so I tried it out. Success! It worked like a charm. But why didn't it work on my iPad? I think that I need to take some time and try it with different iterations of iPads and iPhones. I also think that my powered USB is a little chintzy. I think that I need to try it with a more robust one.
12/12/14 - I tried it with my iPad mini 2 and it worked just fine. It did need the powered usb.