The IK Multimedia iRig Mic for iOS devices – from @tjkeenan and @seasideaudio #voiceover

IK Multimedia, maker of AmpliTube products for music processing, has produced a new interface that voice artists may want to look into for auditioning on the go. The iRig mic may not have the sensitivity that we are used to from our studio mics, but again, this isn’t made to compete with Sennheiser 416s or Neumann U87s out there. My experience with on-the-go audition software is that it is best used when you know your client and they really already have an idea what you sound like, since you do not want your first impression to be from this level of performance. That being said, there is a lot of potential for things like this, the Blue Mikey and Yeti, and products like Rehearsal, iAudtion, and Blue FiRe as slimmer portable platforms become more powerful (and multicore tablets are coming this year).