Wo! The sound of installation of iOS 16 on an iPhone SE 2020. Captured, from a coil guitar pick up

With iOS 16 dropping yesterday, I felt it only appropriate to record the installation of this operating system onto an iPhone SE, 2020 edition. Have you ever wondered what your iPhone was doing, you’re in a quiet environment, so you put the phone to your ear and you hear ticking, as your concentration sets in on what you’re listening to, you hear hissing. If you hold it there long enough, you may hear buzzing. Even longer? You may hear beeping. I learned long ago, that my guitar pick up would capture sound that I may not hear with my human ear. This is the recording of iOS16 installation, the phone did not have any case on it, the glass back set above the pick ups, resting gently,on top of six guitar strings. Warning! Warning! This is loud! Don’t crank this up in headphones, and not expect to have ringing ears afterwards. Listen to it quietly. Now I may be starting to understand where the sound design palette comes for Radio imaging effects! There is some awesome staticky sound here!

Have you ever used the stereo Mike’s on your iPhone to record an acoustic guitar while the phone sits on your knee?

This isn’t bad, this is kind of impressive as far as the stereo spectrum. The challenges, as you were unable to monitor back you’re unable to hear if the phone is positioned the way you want it, so it wasn’t exactly positioned the way I would have it, but not bad. I use Just Press Record, I think there is some sort of noise reduction as it should be more high-end than there is. there are two audio clips below.

Explosions In The Night, Closer This Time

The first ones tonight, I didn’t wake up in time to capture. These were the second pare, though jarring, they weren’t as loud as the third. My recording, no joke, dropped out right before them. This is still a closer capture than the ones a couple weeks ago.

Small single engine plane fly over low

Something just sounds different about the engine of this plane. Part of it I think is the air movement and I love how it sounds like at the end it’s almost growling, but I think it is a pretty loud engine!