Making movies is a core a part of nearly each working musician’s life nowadays. Smartphones have put amazingly good cameras in our pockets, however their built-in mics are undoubtedly restricted for recording music. Enter Audigo ($249), a small wi-fi mic/iPhone app that goals to improve the audio facet and make it easier to make good-sounding movies (or audio tracks) anyplace, shortly and simply—no cables, pc, and even electrical energy required.

That’s a compelling promise for anybody creating music-related movies and attempting to feed the beast of social media. Audigo carries you thru the entire course of: recording, syncing audio and video, utilizing EQ and results, and sharing the ultimate product. It could even file as much as 4 mics concurrently and multitrack audio or video—once more, all in your cellphone. 

To take a look at the inventive potentialities, I acquired two Audigo mics for overview and tried them out in video clips you possibly can see and listen to within the video above.

Primary Options

The Audigo mic is a stereo mid-side condenser, capturing sound from entrance (cardioid) and facet (determine eight) capsules. On the entrance is an influence button you can even use to begin and cease recording—a really useful function for anybody who shoots selfie movies—and on the again is a USB-C port for battery charging with the provided cable. The mic mounts on a clip with a magnet, so you can even stick the mic on something steel (music stand, lamppost, and many others.).

Once you file, Audigo saves the audio (24-bit/48kHz wav format) on the mic itself, which has 32 GB of storage. Once you cease recording, the app transfers the audio to your cellphone, the place it syncs robotically with video.

Within the app, you possibly can then trim the audio/video, alter the stereo width (i.e., the quantity of facet mic sign) and EQ (with presets for heat, readability, and many others.), and add reverb—all utilizing onscreen sliders. With a Studio ($7.99/month) or Professional plan ($15.99/month), you even have entry to compression and delay plus multitrack video, cloud backup, distant collaboration, and extra. 

When you’ve acquired your combine, growth—share the file instantly from the app to your social media, cloud drive, pc, or wherever you need.

Verify One Two

Organising the mics was straightforward—I simply put in the app, created an account, and paired the mics with my cellphone. I instantly tried recording a radio promo spot I wanted to do; I acquired an excellent, clear observe and emailed it to the station proper from my cellphone. Very environment friendly.

Out within the yard, I did some exams with my Manzer guitar and an iPhone 12 Professional on a tripod. For comparability, I recorded an instrumental tackle “Whereas My Guitar Gently Weeps” first utilizing the iPhone’s mic after which with Audigo. Whereas the iPhone acquired the essential outlines of the guitar sound, the Audigo mic captured much more depth and element. I then moved the cellphone again for a wider view whereas nonetheless getting the shut mic sound—that’s one of many huge benefits of utilizing an exterior wi-fi mic. 

Multitracking was easy—video options apart, Audigo is a really helpful, streamlined audio multitracker. I checked out the brand new video multitracking function, recording a dropped-D blues rhythm observe and overdubbing a lead whereas listening on my wi-fi headphones. Within the app’s video mixer, I made a fast edit, switching between tracks by tapping the observe/view I needed—a remarkably easy and highly effective interface. 

I additionally made just a few movies with my duo accomplice, Wendy Ramsay: a swing guitar/clarinet tackle “Russian Lullaby” round one mic; and my very own track “Canine for a Day,” with guitar and accordion, utilizing two mics on stands going through every instrument. The one mic did a pleasant of job capturing the vary of the 2 devices and vocal. With two mics, after all, I had much more management over the combination in addition to particular person EQ/results for every mic.

On the Go

As an ultraportable studio, Audigo delivers the products. I discovered the app elegantly easy to make use of, and the mic sound, whereas it may possibly’t match a high-quality studio mic, is superb. I bumped into just a few points with connections between the cellphone and mic (when Audigo was on my dwelling WiFi however the sign was weak), however they weren’t too onerous to kind out.

Audigo has superior fairly a bit since its launch in 2021—and since it’s app primarily based, new options develop into out there to all customers. The corporate plans to introduce an Android model in 2025 and says dwell streaming functionality is on the horizon, which might be a unbelievable software.

For those who produce audio or video, after all you are able to do much more with a devoted audio workstation and video enhancing software program. However it’s exceptional what you possibly can create—within the park, on the street, wherever you might be—with only one little mic and your cellphone. audigolabs.com