Welcome to the “how to get external audio into clubhouse” part one…we will start with the phone! This is Dr. Owen Muir, welcome to my Audio Operating Room.
Let’s imagine you want to use a microphone other than what is in the phone Well if you have an iPhone. Why do this? It will sound better! The following walks us through the steps to use one external mic, the iRig MicCast2.
The first think to understand: the clubhouse app is not written to support class compliant lighting or usb interface. So the problem with all interfaces that generally work with other apps like the iRig Pro or any class-compliant USB interface into the iPad won’t work properly once the user is a speaker on stage. More than one speaker on stage + class compliant usb interface = doesn’t work.
Thus the solution: using the iRig modules that support analog input that then gets into the iPhone via an adapter for the lightning port.
Pictures will help!
you will need this…
which looks like this when you unpack it:
This little dongle involves a hell of a lot of tech in a tiny package and allows for the A/D conversion of analog audio in mono plus the D/A conversion of stereo analog audio (although clubhouse is mono).
Into this you need to plug an analog 1/8” plug input…
As you can see there are little lines there that separate the contacts to do audio in vs audio out.
plug it all the way in people.
Let’s start with the iRig MicCast2…
you see the “device” input on the left and headphone input on the left…
the plug above goes into the device input/output jack.
next you plug in the headphones you obtained for this (I am using Sony MDR-7506 cans)
Those are my Sonys….
This is me plugging into the headphone jack also!
Now we are ready to download the Mic Room App.
This lets us route audio to the headphone jack we just plugged into on the iRig, from the phone, and modify the mic gain with the big silver knob controller.
Now, with all these steps taken, we have completed the hookup of the iRig MicCast2…and should be ready to talk on clubhouse.
Next up…the iRig 2 and external audio equipment.