Ok, you have to snag some field audio and listener reactions from your local mall and you don't have a pro ENG rig, what do you do? Grab your iPod and get yourself a Belkin TuneTalk™ Stereo omnidirectional microphone for your iPod nano (2nd gen) or iPod Video (5th gen). Look for the best online deal, $54.00 as of this blog entry. The key to not getting asked to leave the premises of the place you are recording is to wear your earbuds and act as if you are just rocking out to your iPod like every other fashionista. Make sure you set the audio quality parameter to 44.1 and experiment with auto-gain feature for best results. On occasion you might run into the issue of the mic picking up and recording the internal hard drive spin and sputter of the iPod. We don't have an answer for this yet. It might have to do with disc fragmentation if your iPod is already full of tunes and what not. Make sure your battery is fully charged, this type of recording will suck juice like a frat boy. The iPod mic is a great way to go low tech, low dough guerilla and still get good audio.
Here's some links if you want to sniff around...
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