Bluetooth mic to limiter to headphones

[Robin-Whittle]

I have an iPhone and iPad but no experience with audio software for these. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to use an iPhone to accept audio from a bluetooth microphone (or headphone adaptor with its own inbuilt microphone - I have one of these) and to put this through a limiter before sending it to the headphones - ideally wired but perhaps not.

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[Robin-Whittle]

A friend in a brass band . . .

[Tj Shredder]

In my experience Bluetooth usually has too much latency to be useful…

[jules99]

Yeah, expect LOADS of latency (as in delay between wen you sing into the microphone and when you hear it in the headphones), when you to Bluetooth twice, mic and headphones. The only way without it is wired.

So you need a mobile audio interface with onboard effects, most notably a limiter, a wired microphone that you plug into the interface and headphones that you plug into the interface's headphone-out.

[Spitfire31]

The only way a limiter would be useful when recording is to connect it before the A/D conversion in an audio interface. In other words, an analog microphone connected to an analog preamp connected to an analog limiter connected to the audio interface.

If you record at 24 bits and set your level so that you never cross -12dB FS (Full Scale), you don't need a limiter while recording. You'll still get way more signal to noise than you need. Just put a limiter plug-in on the already recorded track in your iOS DAW.