Microphone for android to amplify sound (1 Viewer)

[neilsumner123]

Can anyone please recommend a mic that I can plug-in to an android phone to amplify bird-song for use with Merlin? Not looking for anything too clever - just sound amplification to catch a slightly bigger range of bird song. Thnks

 

[Elkhornsun]

Micrófono parabólico BIRDMIC - Birdfox S.L.

Micrófono Parabólico BirdMic para la escucha de aves. Ligero y multifuncional. Acopla una grabadora de campo un smartphone. Ideal para videocámaras.

www.birdfox.tech

They are based in Spain and ship anywhere, including the USA. A parabolic dish will increase the sound reaching the mic and no signal amplification needed. They sell a kit that has the parabolic dish, microphone, and connectors for smartphones.

I have tried very good self-powered shotgun microphones and they did not improve the sound recording or bird song detection with Merlin one bit.

 

[Raptorama]

Thank you for this - I have been looking for the exact same thing (microphone for Android for using with Merlin). The BIRDMIC looks pretty serious!

 

[WRL]

Can anyone please recommend a mic that I can plug-in to an android phone to amplify bird-song for use with Merlin? Not looking for anything too clever - just sound amplification to catch a slightly bigger range of bird song. Thnks

As discussed before elsewhere here in this forum: The dish (25 cm) is too small to be reasonably effective below 3 to 4 kHz. It needs a dish diameter of SEVERAL wavelenghts (and not only one, as stated by BirdMic: 25 cm wavelenght are equivalent to roughly 1500Hz) to work as intended (i.e.reflection of sound). That is simply the physics of acoustics.

 

[neilsumner123]

Micrófono parabólico BIRDMIC - Birdfox S.L.

Micrófono Parabólico BirdMic para la escucha de aves. Ligero y multifuncional. Acopla una grabadora de campo un smartphone. Ideal para videocámaras.

www.birdfox.tech

They are based in Spain and ship anywhere, including the USA. A parabolic dish will increase the sound reaching the mic and no signal amplification needed. They sell a kit that has the parabolic dish, microphone, and connectors for smartphones.

I have tried very good self-powered shotgun microphones and they did not improve the sound recording or bird song detection with Merlin one bit.

Thank you!