Earlier in the month we looked at hacking together a basic microphone input for the iPod Touch; now, arch modder Marian has gone one stage further and crafted a microphone pre-amp for the PMP that fits inside a standard iPod dock connector.  Right now he’s bypassed surface-mount or printed circuit boards and merely soldered components directly to each other, but the hope is that a small SMD board could be developed leaving space to move the microphone inside the casing.

The eventual aim, then, is to turn the iPod Touch into either a miniature recording studio or tweak together a VoIP client and bypass all the AT&T inconvenience attached to the iPhone.

[via TUAW]