I bought some inexpensive TWS bluetooth earbuds yesterday, for use with my Iphone. I paired them and they worked well for music and are supposed to have a mic in each bud, so either one or both can be used for phone calls, except...
There is no audio picked up by either earbud, the Iphone mic is disabled, so the other party hears total silence.
Is there a setting I might have missed?
It happens that Harry Bloomfield, Esq. formulated :
Got it....
Both buds need to be powered on together, then go through the pairing process - the mica do work after that!
I don't know but I bought a set of over the ear phones which supposedly had a microphone, it turned out to be inside a little push switch on the mobile phone cable, which of course is only plugged into the phones when you want to connect them to a phone. The other issue is, unless they say made for Iphone and have the lightening adaptor, some adaptors you buy are merely headphone adaptors and do not pass through the microphone, even if it exists.
Brian
Brian Gaff (Sofa) formulated the question :
These are just an earbud, an in ear gadget, no wires at all on the them. They have a tiny built in rechargeable battery and connect to the phone or etc. by bluetooth.
One I managed to get the mic working, I was advised when testing, that the mic audio was hopeless, so I have returned then for a refund.
Harry Bloomfield, Esq. snipped-for-privacy@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote in news:rl57rt$lhg$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
How could a mic in your ear ever be any good?
Bone conduction I suppose.
Not really surprising, given where your mouth is. ;-)
Might get some of the lower frequencies. But the higher ones in speech are critical for clarity.
Zoom has a handy feature for testing your mic. It will record a few seconds then play it back. Try that with the mic in a sensible position, then in your ear. See if you can tell the difference. ;-)
testing,
In the ear canal is probably sub-optimal.
Needs fairly high pressure betwixt bone and transducer to get good conduction. Flesh is rather soft and squishy.
Did you never try a small personal mic bobby pined at the hair line? Very good and of course no chnage of quality with head turns that you get with a chest mounted personal. I think it works so well as it's utilising the pressure zone effect that you get close to a sound reflective surface.
They can be reasonable. But you may have noticed that boom mics placing the mic very close to the mouth are now used instead in the theatre.
Not that close normally mid cheek otherwise you get blasting. Also poping on a DPA is a lot less hassle and far quicker than than hiding the cable through the hair and fixing the mic at hairline.
JohnP was thinking very hard :
It is not in your ear.
Harry Bloomfield, Esq. snipped-for-privacy@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote in news:rl9904$pb0$1 @dont-email.me:
Ear location then.
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