Saramonic LC-XLR 19.7' XLR Female to Apple Certified Lightning Microphone Adapter Cable for iOS Devices

I couldn’t be more pleased with this cable adapter solution, a lot of things have changed and evolved when it comes to audio recording, certainly between the end to end device. I get tired of having to use two, three, four, five individual adapters to try to adapt slowly to the in device which would do the recording only to have the audio quality be degraded.When it comes to recording for videos and podcast, you want to be able to use professional level microphones, while at the same time use these incredible all digital powerful software applications that run on your mobile devices.This cable provides a streamline solution that’s lightweight, and also it’s length of cable is absolutely perfect, because if you’re using your microphone on a tall boom or tripod and need to have your iPhone or iPad closer to you to monitor the audio, this works great with the length of the cable.Also I cannot hear any distortion, the noise levels are extremely extremely low, it really allows the audio to come through absolutely perfect at 24bit 48Hz. Now what you’re seeing in my photographs as my microphone is a Rode NTG4+ microphone that has a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery with in it, with the Rode shotgun mic blimp enclosure around it.The cable has a solid build to it and is fashioned to be very sturdy and should last a long time, however please understand the limitations as there is workarounds so you can use basically any XLR microphone you just have to really pay attention to the requirements of your microphone and I’m going to get into that now.Most professional microphones that people have and purchase, do require what they call phantom power (P24 or P48), that is power that is transmitted into the microphone via the XLR cable which this phantom power is basically injected into the cable by using professional amplifiers and or recorders.*Please note, if you’re not using a professional microphone that has built in internal power via a battery (like the NT1A which was mentioned in the one star review, that mic is an example of a mic that requires either P24 or P48 power), This cable solution will not work as an independent solution, because it cannot provide phantom power to the microphone; as your mobile phone or tablet cannot produce that, this cable solution will not work because it cannot provide phantom power to the microphone, your mobile phone or tablet cannot produce 24V or 48V as an output through its lightning or USB-C connection.*You’re going to need to make sure you have a self powered microphone or you can find phantom XLR power injectors easily on Amazon or B&H photo for around $40, it’s like 4” long or so, and it has a built-in battery, it’s basically fashioned as a coupler, that the you would fit in between the plug on your XLR microphone and the XLR end of this cable.

Thank you for an amazing cable! This is exactly what I needed to add an external mic to my iPhone videos. Great product!

I use this professionally to record sound and so far it's proven to be quite good. Until this became available I was using several adapters to achieve a similar ability to use a professional microphone with my iPhone. I've just started using it so I can't say how durable it is yet.

It works great EXCEPT for anything that uses the AppleCall DevKit. Which is real bummer because that means it doesn't work for phone calls or FaceTime, which is what I bought it for. This isn't the fault of the cable, it's an intentional device limitation by Apple.So be warned, you can't use this cable to get a mic working on a phone call or FaceTime. Your Iphone won't allow it.

Does not work!

After having used complex setups for recording for decades, I have discovered the joys of simplicity and light weight for field video and audio recording. The iPhone 11 Pro Max has shockingly good image quality in 4K, and now with this cable, I can just hook up an XLR pro lapel mic or shotgun mic directly to the iPhone for the audio, using Filmic Pro to get the best control of both picture and sound. I was worried about the sound quality, but the newest iPhones have really good audio circuitry. Highly recommended.

It does what it advertises! The cable isn’t very thick at all. The sound quality has more to do with the equipment used with this cable. However it does transmit a good clean signal! An IRig pro would only cost about $25-$50 more, but it gets the job done!

We tried using this cable with a microphone as well as an output from a mixer and in both cases we got a background hiss that was quite annoying. Maybe a bad cable but we bought 2 and they both did the same thing.