Of course iPhone is not made for professional audio recording but you can achieve very good results if you consider some basic rules.

The room:
- should be silent during recording
- should be without echo
- very small rooms are usually not suitable
- look around if there is a refrigerator or any other device with continuous rumbling noise and switch them off or stay far from them

Position, distance, way of speaking:
- sit comfortably in front of an office table
- put the iPhone on the table in front of you as shown above with about 50 cm (19.7 inch) distance from your face
- place the iPhone with the home button towards you as shown above
- speak as loud asif you were presenting on a five person meeting
- articulate clearly

If everything went well, the level of the recorded voice should be around -3dB suitable for using it as narrator voice on videos without much change.

You can use the built-in "Voice Memos" application. Recording more than 30 minutes is not recommended. With the share option you are able to send the recording in e-mail. If the file is too large, you have to use the free diskAid software to download the recording to a computer.

Here is an example video we made recently using iPhone for recording the narrator voice.

An old Nokia phone keyboard hacked, connected to an Arduino through series of relays, which was controlled by Max/MSP.

What is it good for? Of course we wanted to control the old Nokia Snake game by recorders! See the results on the video!

Navigate to the project page for more details!

http://www.ecowizer.com/2011/11/never-waste-a-good-crisis/