iPhone audio - 8-30 pin converters

[nineofkings]

Looking for new ways to make mic placement fun, I stumbled upon this product: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006BLEZD ... GP8DFOMN0S
It seems great, and so inexpensive, but it has the older version of the iPhone jack and my hardware has the newer, smaller version.

Doggedly refusing to accept defeat, I found this product to help solve this problem: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00VC9HL1 ... FZD1QTOV7C
However, all of the examples given for its functionality are from the newer jack to the older jack, ie audio output from the phone, where what I want is from the older jack to the newer jack, ie audio input into the phone. So, my question is, is there any technical reason why the cable would work in one direction but not the other?

[BiancaNeve]

It's unlikely to work. The headphone socket is mono input only I think.
The 30 pin connector had stereo audio input.

The apple lightning to 30 pin adaptor might work.

On the other hand you're probably better off finding a mic that connects via lightning

[knockman]

nineofkings,

I have that Tascam mic and use the Apple 30-pin to Lightning adapter when using with the iPad
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-t ... B009A5EIWC

It's great for field recordings or messing about with iMovie but not for anything where live monitoring or multi-tracking is important.

In any case, I'd say there's no need for an adapter that includes an audio/mic jack (TRRS) such as you linked above. Since the mic signal passes through the dock/lightning into the device, the device's headphone socket is either disabled or becomes output only so you'd just need a standard stereo (TRS) cable to monitor things or plug in some headphones.

***But much depends on the app in use***. Some apps will see it as both the input and output - in which case, there is no way to listen to what's going on. For example, if I plugged this in and fired up Garageband to record some guitar or vocal, I wouldn't be able to multitrack or play along to a backing. Tascam has an app which allows you to record while monitoring through the iPad or iPhone's headphone socket.

The sound quality is good though and at that current price maybe worth it if simple one take recording is all it's needed for. (Also good for Skyping people you have no interest in listening too).

Otherwise, as BiancaNeve says, there's probably better up-to-date solutions.

[nineofkings]

Thank you for your responses. I'd probably be using as a field recorder or as an addition to a computer-based music setup with its own outputs anyway, so I think I will go ahead with the purchase.