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Favorite app for field recording?
So I’m curious what everyone’s go to app for field recording and files/sample editing is? I’m on the verge of getting the IAP for Wavebox but I wanted to see what everyone else is using for this? The AU effects is a huge plus, but I know a lot of people like Hokusai and Auditor as well.
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AudioShare.
Great app and older versions run on old phones & ipod touches.
And I've already got it - nothing to buy.
I don’t do a lot of field recording, but AudioShare is what I use for it. Have bought it anyway (due to AUM integration), has some basic editing tools built in, you can even load effects (I’ve never done this, but if you want it, it’ll do it).
Covers most bases without needing anything else.
Same here. And i've played a lot with field recordings loading IAA effects into it also
AudioShare
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/fieldscaper/id1006624104
Try this…u will thank me later…well you’ll thank the dev but it is really deep with alot of controls and great sound.
TwistedWave has been the most reliable one for me so far.
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Fieldscaper is great and very deep. Doesn't it have a structural limitation of some sort (maybe sample depth?) that makes it a little long in the tooth by today's standards? Doesn't matter to a tin-eared guy like me but that sort of thing is worth understanding for serious field recordists.
Also worth knowing in advance that Fieldscaper has a learning curve and the interface can be a little fiddly on a phone screen. I picked up Fieldscaper years ago for this purpose but now I reach for Koala to capture snippets.
Another vote for AudioShare.
AudioShare, with the Ambeo headphones for casual ambience gathering and opportunistic recording, and 95% of the audio editing I need - normalisation, and top n tail. Very discrete, works on my IPhone 6S, and great sound. If it’s windy I’ll use the irig lavalier set with teensy dead cats (dead mice?) to reduce wind noise. I have the Zoom H1N as my current mission-specific field recorder (I.e. when I go out with the specific intention of hitting kids playground equipment with rubber mallets!) but I’m looking to trade some old music gear at CEX for a Zoom H5 or 6 and a shotgun add on. Wavebox is very good, and is what I’ll turn to if I need to get more detailed than AudioShare permits. I find it very intuitive to use, which is the opposite of my experience with Auditor. Hokusai is still very good too, but Wavebox for the win…
Oh yeah I love this app! Use it quite a bit.
Yeah have had Audioshare for ages and definitely love the app. Just curious about the plethora of other options. I own the free versions of a lot of them but haven’t decided if I want to do the IAPs for them or not.
I’m very tempted by those Ambeo headphones. Seems like a great investment. Maybe I should stick to Audioshare for now. Have the free versions of Hokusai and Wavebox but just have to decide if I want the IAPs for one of them.
So those headphones have a mic for recording samples correct?
Yes. They work both as headphones and binaural mics, (colocated with the earbuds, and invisible as mics which is handy for stealth recording.) so the bonus is that you get an impressive 3D sound picture. Check the Ambeo thread elsewhere on this forum:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/40630/sennheiser-ambeo-smart-headset
Been planning on reading through that. Definitely seem great for the price.
I wouldn't hang around too long - there can't be many left specially with the interest being generated on the forum...!
I use both Elsa and Fieldscaper.
Loving mine.
Spacecraft is another interesting field recording app - the next version (in beta at the moment) adds some cool new features for live manipulation...
fieldscaper is 50% off at $4.99
Koala)
Love Koala, but I meant more along the lines of sampling and adding EQ, in depth slicing, etc. like Audioshare or Wavebox.
One of the only Granular apps I don’t have. May wait for the new version though, as I don’t really NEED another granular smaller right now.
That’s good to hear! Definitely considering it with my next paycheck.
I'm glad of this thread, it got me looking at Wavebox again. Resting here this morning, I created my first decent loop, in Wavebox, trimmed, timestretched and filtered, from a keyed sequence of an ambient preset I made in SampleWiz 2.
What a delight!
How do yoiu like it compared to hokusai 2?
You and me both! I went ahead and got the IAP and man it’s awesome. I turned a simple loop of a piano into something entirely different. And the UI is just great.
I personally don’t have the full version of Hokusai, but I did the test of the full version within the app, and H2 definitely has more built in effects (and some really cool ones at that), but no audio unit capabilities. I could see it being a close tie, though.
I prefer the Hokusai 2 interface. But Wavebox was super quick and easy to use. Really intuitive and creative.