AVAudioRecorder not working on iPhone 5S

Question

So I\'m using an AVAudioRecorder to record audio alongside an AVCaptureSession that is recording video (I know this is odd, but for my situation I need to record them sepera

Answer 1

I had this same problem - and the answer proved to be related to AVAudioSession. I needed to set the audio session category to PlayAndRecord. Other parts of my application were setting it to Ambient. This post https://stackoverflow.com/a/10287793/1009125 gave me the answer. Hope this helps someone, I lost a Sunday to this one.