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Mono input through headphone jack to Audiobus
Hi,
I wish to know if one mono channel of headphone jack of iPad can be used as input of Audiobus and the output routed through the other mono headphone channel. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks
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Mic in is mono, but headphone out is still stereo: there are three sgnal rings on the plug. I dont know of a break-out adapter.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=301807082680&alt=web
2 for .99 so I ordered. Will check back once they arrive. Why not try?
An iRig type device will allow you to get a mono audio signal into Audiobus and from their you can route the audio via various apps and the output will go into the stereo output. To hear the signal out, headphones can be plugged into the iRig type device or a stereo cable with a splitter if you want to do other things with the left and right channels of the stereo out. To get the mono signal in, you will need to use a three ring plug as @dwarman pointed out and a stereo plug in is not able to input and mono mic signal.
I built a simple passive (non-powered) circuit to adjust the strength of the incoming signal and to eliminate crosstalk between the incoming mono mic signal and the outgoing stereo signal, it's all enclosed in an Altoid tin that plugs into the iOS device and I plug in either my headphones or cables into the Altoid tin to go elsewhere.
In your example if you're wanting to have a dry signal output to one of the stereo pairs of your headphones and have the effected signal that's been processed through Audiobus go to the other side of the headphones, that's certainly possible but not without a three ring plug. I have heard of people using a headphone speaker as a mic so if you attached a cable to the end of the headphones to split out the left and right signal and plugged one into the input of the iRig device and the other end into the output of the iRig device then it may work provided speaking into the headphone speaker can produce enough of an input signal ( don't know if it can or not).
@FlightManual the cable solution via eBay will get you part of the way there but without a passive circuit in the mix, there may be noise and crosstalk between the input and output signals. You should find out soon enough though if this solution works for your purposes. In the early days of iOS a lot of people tried these cable only solutions which were less than satisfactory and why devices like the iRig are used.
This DIY project discusses the issues involved with cable only solutions.
Thanks to all of you for the quick responses. I would first try out the cable solution and see if it works (because it's cheap), else would go in for iRig or NI Audio6 kind of solution. Thanks again.
@dj-aks I found the original iRig to be a poor solution for me as you would get too much noise. The DIY solution I opted to go with uses a potentiometer in the circuit so I can adjust a knob until there is no noise when there is no input signal. The quality of the sound from this circuit is comparable to that from a USB interface in terms of getting a clean signal except of course it's limited to a mono source.
Hello everyone, I got a TRRS splitter (something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5mm-Stereo-TRRS-4-Pole-Plug-To-Earphone-Headset-Mic-Audio-Adapter-PC-iphone-/281490919159) but Audiobus still only recognises System audio input on the iPad and not through the Mic input from the TRRS splitter. How can I make Audiobus recognise the TRRS splitter mic input?
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks
iPod video cable works. I have one, it works
@dj-aks the problem you can have with these adapters is they may not be wired correctly for iOS devices. If you get a cable with three seperate wires coming out from the 3.5 mm jack, you can test the ends and solder the connections once they're right. Normally the yellow video end would correspond to the mic input but it may be a case where the red or white is the mic. Otherwise I suggest going to a retail store where you can test the cable with your iOS device before buying it.