Convenient for Clubhouse! An adapter that can be used for a long time while connecting an external microphone to the iPhone-Keitai Watch

The demand for online meetings is increasing, and there are also more opportunities to participate from smartphones instead of PCs. However, when it came to participating from a smartphone, I often participated as a webinar audience, or as a listener in a conference.

However, with the advent of Clubhouse, there has been a demand for voice transmission from smartphones, especially from iPhones using a high-quality microphone. It's not difficult to connect an earphone microphone to the iPhone, but the problem is the battery capacity. Whether you've found an interesting room and speakers at Clubhouse and want to stay in, spent hours chatting with fun friends, or become a popular speaker yourself, battery capacity will be tight.

So, although it's not particularly new, I prepared Belkin's "3.5mm Audio + Charge RockStar" as an adapter that separates the iPhone's Lightning port and earphone microphone terminal. With this, you can use your iPhone and earphone microphone while charging.

Belkin's "3.5mm Audio+Charge RockStar" 3.5mm 4-pole jack and Lightning port There is also a Belkin logo There is also a method of using charging, but in order to ensure charging and calling, and considering that Bluetooth earphones and microphones also have charging problems, wired connection is reliable for both.

If you connect the "3.5mm Audio+Charge RockStar" to your iPhone, you can use a general-purpose earphone microphone with a 4-pole plug even if the charging cable is connected, and there are two problems: the microphone and charging. resolves at once.

You can separate the microphone and speaker with a general-purpose 4-pole to 3-pole x 2 adapter

By the way, in addition to this Lightning charging and 4-pole plug, Belkin's adapter also has an adapter "Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar" that uses both Lightning charging and Lightning earphone microphone at the same time. If your earphone microphone is Lightning type, you can use that adapter.

Another reason for using this 4-pole adapter is that it is easy to use with a general-purpose microphone and headphones. If you use an adapter that separates the headphones and microphone from a common 4-pole plug, you can use the microphone and headphones separately.

In addition to using only headphones, you can combine various devices on the microphone side and adjust the sound quality, but this time we prepared an Elecom stand microphone (HS-MC05BK). It is touted as having a switch on the mic stand that cuts the mic's audio if necessary.

Unfortunately, when I used Elecom's HS-MC05BK on my iPhone, it didn't mute even if I turned off the microphone. After confirming the internal circuit, the mechanism that disconnects the microphone connection itself with a switch determines that the iPhone side does not connect the microphone, and immediately switches to the microphone on the iPhone itself. It doesn't seem to work well unless it's a mechanism that switches to silent input instead of simply disconnecting the output.

As an aside, it is convenient to mute the microphone side, of course you can mute the audio with the app, but if you want to clear your throat for a moment or if the surroundings are temporarily noisy, you can make the mute display flicker. I don't feel comfortable putting it away. Above all, it's because the switch at hand is more reliable than touching the small icon on the screen.

Improving the performance of the microphone and enhancing its functions are future issues, but by using the "3.5mm Audio+Charge RockStar", you can use an external microphone and charge at the same time, making it convenient for distribution. I want to come

I tried combining it with a stand microphone. If you want to focus on sound quality, you'd want to use a slightly more advanced microphone, but you can talk for a long time while charging

Product name	Seller	Price
3.5mm Audio+Charge RockStar (F8J212BTWHT)	Belkin	4640 yen

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