<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Aldon Hynes <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Aldon.Hynes@orient-lodge.com">Aldon.Hynes@orient-lodge.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">




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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Anyone 
doing anything interesting with using the N900 as an audio recording device or 
doing things to improve audio quality when doing video 
recordings?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Currently, I&#39;m using Recorder for audio and Qik for streaming 
video.  However, I&#39;m just using the internal 
microphone.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I know 
that Steve Garfield came up with a hack for the N900 which allows the use of a 
powered external microphone</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsgES_2r5c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsgES_2r5c</a></font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I&#39;m 
wondering that works for the N900 or if there is a better way with the 
N900.  I&#39;m also curious about ways to use non powered microphones, XLR 
connections etc.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Thoughts or comments are appreciated.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Aldon</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.orient-lodge.com/n900" target="_blank">http://www.orient-lodge.com/n900</a></font></span></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>According to <a href="http://sw.nokia.com/id/81ba2105-f16d-4c2b-a958-542ede07c7bc/Nokia_AV_Hardware_Interface_Specification_v1_0_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://sw.nokia.com/id/81ba2105-f16d-4c2b-a958-542ede07c7bc/Nokia_AV_Hardware_Interface_Specification_v1_0_en.pdf</a>
 you can use yellow plug for audio input. For XLR connections you have to use adapters, try to google for 
phmxmh, but that may not work for all microphones. Or you will 
need a converter  from balanced to unbalanced, but it can be bulky and 
may need an external power.<br>
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Sergey<br>