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RECORD ON THE GO
Record voiceover on your phone
Your phone can record a broadcast-quality read through the same studio mic you use at home: all it takes is the right adapter or a small audio interface between the two. Here are the four ways in, gear that is made for it, how each phone connects, and how to check the phone is really recording from your mic.
This is about cables and interfaces for the mic you already own, not portable vocal booths or clip-on mics.
Gear checked against its makers’ pages on October 19, 2026.
Four ways in
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Way 1: An XLR-to-USB-C adapter
What it is
A small barrel that plugs straight onto your mic’s XLR connector, with a preamp and a converter inside and a USB-C cable out to the phone.
Choose it when
You have one mic and no outboard preamp, and you want the smallest kit that fits in a pocket.
Watch out
These expect a microphone’s level, not the much hotter line level from a preamp or voice processor: see the third way. Some cheap “XLR to USB-C” cables have no preamp and no phantom power at all, so a condenser mic won’t work on them.
XLR mic
Adapter with a preamp
Phone
For example
Shure MVX2U Gen 2
(opens the maker’s page in a new tab)Up to 60 dB of gain and 48 V phantom power, run from the phone’s own power. A zero-latency headphone out. USB-C, MFi certified for iPhone; Shure lists iOS 17 and Android 14 or later.
A box with an XLR or combo input, a preamp, phantom power and a headphone out, made to run on a phone or tablet as well as a computer.
Choose it when
You want a proper headphone out with its own volume, a second input, or phantom power on batteries so the phone doesn’t have to power your condenser mic.
Watch out
Most desk interfaces that run on a computer’s USB power ask for more than a phone gives. MOTU and Universal Audio both say a phone or tablet may not power theirs, and that you’ll need a powered USB hub or their power supply.
MOTU M-Series
(opens the maker’s page in a new tab)A desk interface with combo mic and line inputs. MOTU says many iOS devices can’t power it on their own: use a powered USB hub (and on a Lightning iPhone, Apple’s camera adapter).
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Way 3: Your preamp or voice processor
What it is
Your usual chain, with the preamp’s or processor’s line output going into a line input on an interface, which then goes to the phone.
Choose it when
You record through a preamp or voice processor at home and want the same sound on the road.
Watch out
Line level is about 50 dB hotter than a microphone’s, so it will distort a mic input. Use an interface with a real line input, or put a line-to-mic attenuator before a mic-only adapter and switch its phantom power off. Don’t use the phone’s headset socket through a USB-C to 3.5 mm dongle: its input is mono and made for a headset mic.
XLR mic
Preamp or processor
Line input on an interface
Phone
For example
dbx 286s
(opens the maker’s page in a new tab)A common mic preamp and voice processor. Its line output is a 1/4" TRS jack, 0 dBu nominal and over +21 dBu at most, with an output trim from −30 to +10 dB.
Shure A15LA
(opens the maker’s page in a new tab)An inline attenuator that drops line level by 50 dB to mic level, so a preamp can feed a mic-only adapter. Shure points to it from the A15AS page for line-to-mic use.
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Way 4: A USB microphone
What it is
A microphone with its own preamp and converter inside, plugged straight into the phone.
Choose it when
You don’t have a studio mic with you, or you want one thing to carry. Some have an XLR output too, so they also work with your interface at home.
Watch out
You give up your own mic’s sound and your outboard gear.
Examples, not endorsements: nobody paid to be listed. Details checked against the makers’ pages linked above on October 19, 2026; makers change their gear, so check the page before you buy.
These have Lightning. Use Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter: it has its own Lightning port for the phone’s charger, which powers the phone and the interface when the phone can’t. Without it you may see “Attached accessory uses too much power”.Apple: Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter (opens in a new tab)
Android
Android has played and recorded USB audio since Android 5.0, but how well a given phone does it is up to its maker, so check your gear maker’s list of phones. If the phone can’t power the interface, a powered USB hub can.Android: USB digital audio (opens in a new tab)
Listening back
Your phone’s only port is taken by the interface, and most phones have no headphone socket, so plug closed headphones into the adapter’s or interface’s headphone out.
Make sure the right mic is recording
A phone can quietly fall back to its own microphone. Run this once on any new setup, before the first job:
1Plug everything in and switch on any phantom power, then open the order in Perform, press Record here and then Set up recording, and allow the microphone.
2Look at the name next to Microphone on, and pick your adapter or interface under Microphone if it is listed.
3Tap the grille of your studio mic, then tap the phone’s own microphone. Only the studio mic should move the level bar.
4Press Listen under Say a line and read the line: it tells you in words how your level and the room compare with your studio’s limits.
On an iPhone
Safari on iPhone sometimes records from the built-in mic even with an interface plugged in and chosen. Apple’s own apps, such as Voice Memos, use the interface.
The open WebKit bug (opens in a new tab)
If the check shows the phone’s own mic, record the read in an app, then add the file to the order: choose it under the script, or press Upload read in Perform after Stop.
Before a session
Charge first
Charge the phone and any batteries in the interface before you start, and record on battery when you can: a charger plugged in while you record can bring hum with it. If the interface needs the charger to run, listen to the silence for hum before the session.
Silence the phone
Turn on airplane mode, or at least Do Not Disturb, so no call or notification interrupts a take. A phone’s radio can also buzz in audio cables close to it.
Power, then plug in
If the interface has batteries or a power supply, switch it on before you connect the phone.
Secure the cable
Clip or tape the cable near the phone so a tug pulls on the clip, not on the phone’s port.
Set the gain on the interface
Turn the gain on the adapter or interface, not the phone’s volume, while you read your loudest line at full voice, and keep the peaks out of the coral band on the level bar.
Check the room
Press Check the room in the Record here panel and stay quiet for three seconds, so each take carries the room’s noise level.
The phone may be using its own microphone: run the check above. Then try the cable, and switch phantom power on for a condenser mic.
“Accessory uses too much power”
The phone can’t power the interface. Put batteries in it, use its power supply, or add a powered USB hub (on a Lightning iPhone, Apple’s camera adapter with the charger in its port).
Hum or buzz
Unplug the phone’s charger, turn on airplane mode, use balanced XLR or TRS cables, and plug mains-powered gear into one power strip.
Harsh distortion from a preamp
A line output is going into a mic input. Use a line input, add a line-to-mic attenuator, or turn the preamp’s output down.
Sound on one side only
A mono mic can arrive as two channels with sound on one. Record here finds the input carrying your voice, and a Dry read is always mono.
The voice sounds thin or processed
On an iPhone, a web page can switch off Safari’s echo cancellation but has no switch for noise suppression or automatic gain. If a take sounds processed, record it in an app and add the file to the order under its script.
BONUS: THE BOOTH IN YOUR DRIVEWAY
Need a quiet room in a hurry? Try your car.
A parked car is a surprisingly good vocal booth: it’s small, it keeps a lot of the outside world out, and all that upholstery soaks up echo instead of bouncing your voice back into the mic. Grab your mic, your adapter or interface, your headphones and your phone, and:
Park somewhere quiet. A garage, a back lot, the far end of the street: away from traffic, sprinklers and leaf blowers.
Engine off, windows up. No fan, no air conditioning, no ticking from a cooling engine. Never run the engine in a closed garage.
Sit in the back. Face the back of the front seats, with the seats and headrests around the mic, not the windshield glass.
Make it quieter still. A coat or blanket over the headrests, or over you and the mic, helps more than you’d think.
Check the room. Press Check the room in the Record here panel. If it says the room is quiet enough, you’re set.
Don’t stay too long. A closed car gets hot or cold fast, for you and for your gear.
FOR VOICEOVER ARTISTS
Record, check and send from your phone
In SendScripts.to, Record here works on a phone as well as a computer. Open an order, read the script full screen, and record in the browser. After each take it measures the peak, average level, loudness and room noise against your limits, then attaches the take to the order, ready to send to your client for approval. The microphone’s name and the level bar show which mic it is hearing. No commission, ever: just you and the clients you already have.
