I took a long-overdue family vacation, and promised myself not to bring my laptop. It sounds so crazy. I don’t recall traveling anywhere without it, even on vacation. Can I go 100% mobile?
It was challenging in many ways. I have not used my mobile as my only tool previously, amazing what I could really do. I spent time recording with voice memos [iPhone], voice record pro, ferrite, and audacity audio recorder. Each had a different approach and interface to learn.
To keep it simple, I recorded using my earbuds/mic for all four apps. I was sitting on a porch in a thunderstorm, my only quiet time to record, which wasn’t so quiet after all. It was a fun experience.
Of the four recordings, I was most impressed with ferrite. Uploaded the recordings into auphonic, converted to wav formats, and then applied noise reduction to each format. Pretty impressive app.
It was easy to back-up each file to dropbox, once I figured out the integrations. And then upload to soundcloud.
I could have continued with more detailed voice | sound editing, but this was about mobile tool learning.
Aha lesson! Have a podcast or two on the shelf when traveling, just in case. Upload and revise the mobile recording on the laptop later. Much easier. But in a pinch, I feel I could record and edit 100% mobile.
Here’s the ferrite recording no edits, wav conversion and noise reduction, without detail voice editing.
I did a third test with auphonic with noise reduction added. It did reduce the noise further, but my words were clipped. Perhaps the thunderstorm in the background threw the algorithms off.