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There are various methods to connect a guest via their phone:
Except for an actual phone call, whichever method you use, be aware that if your guest speaks directly into the phone, without earbuds, and with the phone held up against their face, the audio will most likely distort due to their plosives. To avoid this have the guest use earbuds with a mic on them.
I recently tried to connect with a guest using FaceTime without earbuds and it was absolutely terrible and unusable audio.
BTW, the reason an actual phone call will not have a major problem with plosives is because that audio is being extremely compressed, limited and EQ’d.
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If the guest has a wide and audio included within their phone and network, it can improve the call, but not much. A Wideband device will generally have a frequency response of 150Hz to 6.8kHz, better than a narrowband of 300Hz to 3.4kHz, but still not great. On top of that, encoding is usually at 16 bit.
A mobile operator makes money by squirting as much as they can get away with down the bandwidth that’s available. This means reducing the frequency response as well as compressing the data stream as much as possible.
I only use a telephone call if the recording is urgent, short and there is no other way to get it.
By the way, I understand that Version 2 of Squadcast is going to be released soon. This will have mobile integration.