Emailed them about the iPhone 4 compatibility issue, and they sent me an email in under an hour.
Yes,
Unfortunately the Mikey is not compatible. The iPad and iPhone 4 has a 30-pin connector, however, the pin out on that 30 pin doesn't include an analog audio input that the Mikey utilizes. The only way to get audio into the iPad and iPhone 4 is via a digital input.
We're currently looking into making a Mikey that will work with the iPad and iPhone 4
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[...] Blue Microphones Mikey 2.0 iPod Recording Microphone
I play in a cover band, and I wanted something to record our practice and gigs for both self-critique and to post on our band's website. I was originally considering a dedicated mp3 recorder. However, while doing the research, I realized there were issues; namely, cost, battery consumption and lack of an internal speaker on the unit I was considering.
I tried using the voice recorder function on my iPhone 3Gs. After all, battery consumption and external speaker is not an issue, but the volume at anything other than an unplugged, acoustic session caused extreme distortion. Then I found the Blue Mikey 2.0. I'm pleasantly surprised at the quality of the recordings. No clipping, every instrument was heard clearly. I have a wifi setup at home, and with the BlueFire app transfer of the recordings to my computer is wireless. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone wanting to make quality recordings with their iPhone or iPod.
This thing is great! I love my iPod, but I wanted to be able to record music on it. The Mikey delivered!
Right out of the box I knew it was gonna be cool. Vintage look, the controls are self explanatory,
Once I plugged it in and used it with the bluefire app I was sold. A few minor adjustments and the sound was impressive.
After reading some reviews I wasn't expecting much but after the first recording I wrote all of them off.
The only drawback I can see Is the connection. If your doing a hand held recording it might be a little touchy but I'm just setting it down and letting it roll while I rehearse so it's perfect.
I was initially quite hesitant about buying this because of the very mixed reviews, however if you have an ipod it works with, then i would say go for it! I have been using it for a few months now to record lectures i my university classes (ranging from 30 to 300 students). Although i do have to sit in the few front rows in order to get a clear audio for the professors, this would be the same with any mic (if you sit further back, you will end up listening to 100 people typing on their keyboards, and moving their chairs, not the lecturer)
3 month update: I am still recording several hours of lectures a day, and i am still getting great results. In fact i was so impressed by it that i recently bought a unit for my girlfriend, so she too would have a handy way of recording high quality lectures in class. I have however stopped using the accompanying app which is just tedious, and am now using iTalk instead (around 2$ in app store). It is way more thought through, syncing is easier and recording quality is every bit as high. As the blue Fire app is not designed by Blue themselves, i suppose the fault does not lie with them in this case.
Given the fact that Blue makes studio mics, I expected better. Of course the iPhone 4 and iTab incompatibility is not Blue's fault, and the people who harp on the fact Apple did the usual and changed the design, so nothing works as expected, should know better than to complain. It comes with the Apple territory. But. But where is good old industrial espionage when u need it? And beta programs? They just didn't CARE that the iPhone and iTab are selling more than iPods now? This 2.0 model Mikey just came out and it's already obsolete? I'm tired of making excuses for companies that miss the boat. If it's because they need more than 6 month's lead time to set their Chinese friends up to make the things, not to speak of shipping delays, it's their fault too. They should make them in the US, where any assembler would knock themselves out to get tooled up in a couple of weeks.
I got mine for sixty one bucks and it feels like it's worth that at most. It looks great, but feels like a Chinese toy. The silver metal trim is like the chrome bumpers on model cars. The connector with the AppleThing is always loose, the mic easily gets disconnected and falls on the floor, and if you have any kind of a condom on the AppleThing, the Mikey sits sort of crooked. Maybe the Apple connector cannot be different. But then the hinge that allows the mic to flop forward or back feels even worse, plastic on plastic, give it a few weeks to not hold at all. Press on the the black screen and it gives in places. The light weight feels too tacky, it has no feel of substance, the AppleThing feels like the crown jewels, and the Mikey feels like a plastic hat. But if it were heavier, it would drop off more easily, so maybe it's a reasonable choice.
The software is so so; in spite of the screen of instructions that greets you on opening, it's hard to use, you fumble and waste time because the cursor motion is counter-intuitive. And they suggest you get the "Pro" version? So what is this? The For Dummies version? The manual, for sure, is at the For Dummies level. There's nothing in there that a reasonably technical person might wonder about. Don't they have anybody in house that would like to share some field recording tips, tell us whether it's safe to hot-plug/unplug, maybe put up some cool graphs? A person at Blue told me there's a speaker in the Mikey. No idea if it's true, or how it's used.
What a sad way to present what is in fact a good stereo microphone! The level switch on the mic is essential as there is no way to set the input gain on the Apple circuitry. The -10 dB line-in and USB passthrough (albeit for power only) are very important if you intend to do serious recordings, as you can connect a little mixer and power adapter. Good idea. The stereo separation is hard to improve, given two capsules in a flat and small enclosure. The frequency response and noise floor so far seem very good. I'll have more results in a bit. Truth be told, there are such excellent audio programs for the iPhone, like the 24 stereo track DAW from HarmonicDog, that it's worth sixty bucks to have a good mic for it. And if you don't let anybody touch it, people will even ooh and ah at its appearance. If it drops out, tell 'em it's like the clip on a nine millimeter, it's SUPPOSED to drop out when it needs a rest.
My favorite thing about the Mikey on the iPhone (and it sort of tells the whole story), is how it throws up a message box when you plug it in. It says the accessory is not made for iPhone, and do you want to engage Airplane mode to reduce interference, and if you say YES, it does it for you (which is very useful), plus when you unplug it, it turns airplane mode back off without having to navigate into the settings menus, so you can transfer recordings using the WiFi. But what a typically unflattering way to present a very useful feature!
Since I refuse to install that intrusive presumptuous monstrosity called iTunes, I think it's great that a lot of apps, including the BlueWhatever recording app they let you download, let you transfer recordings using HTTP or FTP over WiFi.
If you have an AppleThing, other than a new iPhone4 or iTab, you just plan need a Mikey 2. On an iPhone, for the cost of that and one of the many excellent and cheap audio apps, you have a slick solid state 16 bit field recorder. They say: "Works with iPod touch 1G, 2G, 3G; iPod nano 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G; iPod classic; iPod 5G. Can be used with iPhone versions 3GS and earlier." - Ipod Accessories - Ipod Recorder - Ipod Microphone - Ipod Mic'
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