[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] c0reyl:
EDIT:

I just realized, seeing that I'm going to get the Sony NEX 7 soon, which I will get flamed EVEN MORE for.. instead of spending $300 on a nice shotgun mic which will get raped by what I have happens to be...hmmmm What?

A USB THX MICROPHONE.. WITH A HIFI USB HEADPHONE DAC..WHICH I WOULD USE OFTEN WITH MY DAMN PHONE..

Oh wait, now you're going to tell me how much of a piece of garbage my USB THX mic is...

Triple condenser mic...

SPECS:

Power Required/Consumption: 5V 150mA

Sample Rate: 48 kHz

Bit Rate: 16bit

Capsules: 3 Blue-proprietary 14mm condenser capsules

Polar Patterns: Cardioid, Bidirectional, Omnidirectional, Stereo

Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz

Sensitivity: 4.5mV/Pa (1 kHz)

Max SPL: 120dB (THD: 0.5% 1kHz)

HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER:

Impedance:16 ohms

Power Output (RMS): 130 mW

THD: 0.009%

Frequency Response: 15 Hz - 22 kHz

Signal to Noise: 100dB

Considering I had an Apple gift card a while back (both my mother and grandmother are OBSESSED with Apple...)

Instead of getting garbage apple products, I decided to get a pair of Vmoda Crossfade LP headphones price matched to $130, and spent the rest and maybe $50 odd on this mic, intending to podcast possibly with it, but pretty much bought it only for the headphone dac. Before you tell me how bad the 16 ohms looks...that's a perfect impedance for my Crossfade LP. it has no detectable distortion. I don't wanna head how bad it is, because it rapes any ipod or phone DAC.

ANYWAY:::

Something I realized; When I get my Sony NEX 7 which everyone here will flame me for... I intend to start doing photography and video recording at Dance/Rave/Dubstep type events, and using that to help get my name out there by photography and some of the best youtube recordings of them live, which would help possibly find a Photography career. Seeing that I sold my old iTampon to get my Note... Now I litterally have no mobile device capable of interfacing with my USB mic, which ANDROID SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO....

and before you say how bad this mic is...for the price, size, and convenience, it's one of the best options possible. It rapes the bitrate of CD's, and most other audio options as a WAV file.

What pisses me off is:

when hooked up to both the Galaxy Tab as well as the Galaxy Nexus, the usb host turns on the mic as you can see, and the monitor headphone out can be heard, and gain works and everything, but android has no idea how the hell to even use this pretty nifty device.

YET HERE"S THE FUNNY PART.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STzzmge4MwY

Works FLAWLESSLY WITH GARBAGE ITAMPON... WHAT THE FFFFFFFFFFFF?!?!?!

I'm tired of this garbage company getting EVERYTHING to work perfect while every accessory option I could use I basically get screwed on..

And before you tell me to just buy a cheaper shotgun mic for the NEX 7, which you will flame, and you will flame me for even buying the mic, and my Crossfade LP because they aren't part of a $45,000 studio... I'd have to spend $300-400 to get a mic half as good as my yeti as a camera attachment. it would be MUCH easier to remotely record audio with the yeti and splice it in given the vast options of this mic for something as complex as my needs for it.

Think my Yeti is garbage for my needs?

Here was me playing with the mic randomly in that crappy room setup with TERRIBLE placement. you can see though that the specs don't lie at all.

http://soundcloud.com/c0reyl/test-dubstep-2

This was playing off my M-Audio studio monitors and Veloyne ULD18 when I had them hooked up from SPDIF out from my Auzentech Home theater HD to my NAD T751 Home theater receiver which was acting as a surround sound DSP which had at the time crappy rear bookshelves, the studio monitors as L/R, and a Gallo Nucleus center channel (awesome for vocal reproductions for home theater use only) All music was played in stereo.

Considering every possible surface in my room was either polished hardwoods, metal, glass, or hard plastics aside from my bed mattress.. The echo isn't as bad as you think, especially since the mic was standing right next to my Steelseries Experience I-2 acid washed glass mouse pad, making the echo MUCH worse I later found out, but I was testing it for bass mostly.

http://soundcloud.com/c0reyl/headphones-test

This was me using my Yeti USB headphone amp itself as the audio device with monitor feedback listening disabled considering the SAME DEVICE was being used to the audio source playback AND RECORDING, through my crossfade LP headphones on top of the mic, not even really playing with setting much...

I'm pretty sure with a few odds and ends and better placement in a dubstep stage concert without ****tons of reflective surfaces, it will sound pretty damn good, and better than some professional CD recordings even, because I've heard some pretty bad ones.

Oh wait everyone is gunna flame about how bad the echoes sounded, I forgot :c

Anyway...point is Android NEEDS ****ing USB audio. I actually BOUGHT my note to use to edit photography on the go for when I get a new DSLR since my old NEX 5 was stolen in a break-in instead of the hand-me-down Ipad. The pressure sensitive stylus rapes any garbage Apple type stylus, even if I did lose color accuracy, my 24" S-IPS studio monitor at home surpasses nearly every other display most people have seen for that.

Oh and before you go and tell me how the yeti will rape my phone battery, it's SUPER efficient and only uses .725 watts assuming you're blasing music full volume and having 120db noise into the mic while recording at the same time.. more realistically, you're probably going to use somewhere around .25 watts RMS for normal use..

How do I know this? Simple math tells you that 5 Volts @ 150mA yields a max wattage of .725 watts, or three quarters of a watt. on full circuit load. Given that the playback would be muted, and the gain wouldn't be super high, a quarter watt RMS of power draw is pretty realistic. And you tell me digital audio is a waste of power...?

You people are going to tell me I was flexing my E-peen, trolling, or exhibiting A poor attitude but this isn't the case, because all that was said to preemptively make any trolling look retarded, mostly through sarcasm..

I welcome any constructive criticism or good advice for my needs. The guy who flamed me for the TOSLINK idea made me realize how much easier digital audio would be if something like my diagram were used, so I'd appreciate it if this thread were NOT closed. Thanks

-Corey

Edit:

oh and one more thing... some guy wanted to talk crap about bit rates ealier... Those were recorded at about 88.75mbps This means that a whole CD would be filled up in about a minute and three seconds. You wanna talk about bit rates and how bad my mic is and how bad of an idea it is to splice the audio of concert recordings using a CMOS APS-C sensor better than the $2,000 Sony handycam which records 1080/60P at blu ray quality with audio that has MORE THAN TWICE THE MAXIMUM VIDEO BITRATE THAN BLU RAY SUPPORTS, which has a wider frequency response at better clarity than almost anyone's speaker system who is going to be reading this..

Yeah.. I'd go ahead and say it's not a bad idea for what I intended to do, but I don't wanna have to pay hundreds for a laptop or garbage iPad to do what I need to do, when the equipment I already have should be damn well capable of it.

Flame me all you want for wanting to photo edit on the go using my note. Flame me all you want for wanting to buy a mirrorless DSLR camera, when everyone would tell me to get an Alpha instead of a NEX, or a Cannon Rebel.. Flame me all you want for having a USB mic for a couple years until I got my soundcard as a headphone amp from my computer

I already know my post has hundreds of possible ways to flame it and troll...but guess what, the only guy that gave me any good advice in this entire thread was by trolling me, so I don't really care, as long as my thread won't get closed c: