Spectrum shield works with phone mic but not music.

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Hi

If I use a smartphone as a mic connected with a mini jack and speak into it the spectrum shield outputs as expected. However, using exactly the same connection, if I play music on the phone the spectrum shield doesn’t react.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong would be appreciated.

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Hi Lisa.

If it works on one, it should work on the other. Couple of things to try:

  • - Make sure your music is actually coming out of the headphone jack and not going to another audio output like Bluetooth or the earpiece on your phone.
  • - Try turning the volume up. If it's too low, the shield can't "hear" it.
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    Thanks for that - the volume was up but the very clever tech at college worked out that the phone was only sending out on Frequency 2! It is working fine now.