[Linganth] Linganth Digest, Vol 117, Issue 9

Mon Jun 10 18:16:45 UTC 2024

I'd like to second Michele's original question (great to "see" you here
Michele!) regarding a good external mic to use with an iphone. I have been
just using the internal mic on my iphone 13 but am wondering if I should up
my game with an external mic.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I'd be interested in any recommendations of specific external mics that
people have found to be useful, and I am particularly interested in an
external mic to use for interviewing (so probably cardioid or
hyper-cardioid or even a lav mic could work). To the question of
environment, many of the interviews will be outside where wind can be a
problem (so preferable if it comes with a windscreen, but I can rig
something up if the mic is good enough).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
greg

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> From: Steven Patrick Black <sblack at gsu.edu>
> To: Elizabeth Keating <Elizabeth.Keating at austin.utexas.edu>, "Garza,
>         Joyhanna Yoo" <j.y.garza at csus.edu>,
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> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs
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> Hi all,
> These are all great suggestions. I just wanted to also add that there?s a
> wonderful discussion of many of these practical issues in a chapter by
> Gregory Kohler and Keith Murphy, ?Audio-Video Technology for and in the
> Field: A Primer? in Sabina Perrino and Sonya Pritzker?s edited volume
> Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology; and if you are interested in
> some of the ethical and theoretical considerations surrounding use of and
> choice of recorders, I?ve got a piece in American Anthropologist (2017, vol
> 119 issue 1) about this, titled ?Anthropological Ethics and the
> Communicative Affordances of Audio-Video Recorders in Ethnographic
> Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory.?
> Take care,
> Steve
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> Steven P. Black
> Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
> Department of Anthropology
> Georgia State University
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> From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Elizabeth Keating <Elizabeth.Keating at austin.utexas.edu>
> Date: Monday, June 10, 2024 at 3:37?AM
> To: Garza, Joyhanna Yoo <j.y.garza at csus.edu>,
> linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org <linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> Cc: Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs
> Hi all,
>
> I second the backup recorder idea. I?ve had a few times when my backup
> recorder has saved me from that particularly horrible self-flogging grief
> after irretrievable loss of precious words (one time is all it took).
>
> Best,
>
> Elizabeth
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> ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology
> & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations
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> https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Questions-Interview-Uncover-Generations/dp/0593420926
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> ?I?ve never had such good teaching reviews as when I had students do these
> interviews? ? colleague at UT Austin
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> From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> On Behalf Of
> Garza, Joyhanna Yoo
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> Cc: Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs
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> I just wanted to chime in and say I always have a second backup device
> (cheap but effective Olympus recorder) which has saved me since there are
> interruptions you can't always account for (for instance, when you get a
> public safety alert on your phone).
> Best,
> Joyhanna
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> linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>> on behalf of Charles Briggs <
> clbriggs at berkeley.edu<mailto:clbriggs at berkeley.edu>>
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> Cc: Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com<mailto:koven.michele at gmail.com
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> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs
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> Friends,
> I think it depends on where you are recording and what you plan to do with
> the recording. I once had to record a crucial interview in a sports bar in
> Manhattan. If I had not used a recorder with two mics that could be pointed
> at a 90-degree angle and directed at the interviewee, the ambient noise
> would have rendered the recording useless. And there are times when
> pointing the mics outwards at a 180-degree angle helps (but most cell
> phones are, I suspect, about as useful here). So, the question for me is,
> what?s the soundscape?
> Best to all,
> Charles
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> On Jun 9, 2024, at 4:46 PM, Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com<mailto:
> koven.michele at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering about what devices people are currently using or can
> recommend for audio and video recording. I have seen earlier discussions of
> this, but technology changes so fast. I may be recording live political
> speeches given outdoors. My preference is for easy to use, lightweight, and
> small. ( In fact, if there were a way to optimize my iPhone 13, that would
> almost be preferable, but I can imagine that is not quite enough?)
>
> Thank you!
>
> Michele Koven
> Professor, Department of Communication
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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