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by SwellJoe 3772 days ago
I want a better ADC, even more than I want a better DAC (though both would be best). I'd like a high quality recording device for the field...a phone or tablet would be perfect, but there's no good way, that I know of, to get the signal into the device at high quality.
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moreati 3772 days ago
My first thought is: through the micro USB port, exploiting the OTG feature. A few variations on googling 'android external microphone' lead to http://www.androidaudiorecording.com/record-from-a-usb-micro....

Sorry if you've been down this road already.

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SwellJoe 3772 days ago
Yeah, I've seen that one, and it's a clumsy solution, at best; it has a custom USB driver and only works with that one piece of software (or did, last time I looked at it). It's certainly better than nothing, and it's cool that something exists, but the lack of general purpose USB audio interface support in Android is frustrating as hell, especially since iOS has had it for so long.
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