Coming from a Nokia 928, I was happy to see very comparable image quality with the camera even in low light. However, after recording video at a concert last night, I realized that the audio quality doesn't even come close.
Here is a sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRIjn49Ay0
Place a small piece of scotch tape over the Mic at very loud venues. It will prevent a lot of distortion.
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I was using my note at a concert the other night and the audio is terrible in a loud venue, any thoughts on how to make it better? you can see the moment when mine starts is where the singer grabs his iphone and shoots with it. There's gotta be a way to make it not clip the audio I think its a software issue not hardware.
I'm loving this phone though!!!
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http://youtu.be/6a8B2Fvgod8?hd=1
Coming from a captivate and a infuse 4g I really miss voodoo sound for this reason.
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I'm sure someone will come up with something somewhat useful for you... but my suggestions? don't record concerts with a phone, they're not made for it. zoom makes some nice recorders with mics designed for recording live audio.
You will need some sort of buffer, such as a cotton ball over the mic, as the sound pressure produced by the speakers at a concert is way too overwhelming for the mics on phones. You're basically maxing out what the mic can collect in terms of loudness, so the track will clip and sound like sh*t.
Agreed with previous poster... The problem is at a concert you are getting more bass than your Mic can handle so it crashes your midst and highs.
And no, there is no way to fix the audio on the videos previously recorded. If you want to record with the phone in the future the best idea is to use a cotton ball or clothing to cover the Mic To reduce bass or stand farther from the speaker while recording
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I've used Rehearsal Assistant on my old phone to record performances during rehearsal, but they were always distorted because the mic is overloaded.
i bought the Razr because the sound quality on audio recordings on youtube seemed much clearer and useful for me to rehears with.
i can choose the 'concert' audio setting when i'm using the stock camcorder app, but it seems like other apps don't have access to this setting, and my Rehearsal Assistant is still getting overloaded.
are there Apps that can take advantage of these sound settings? or is there a way to default to the 'concert' setting?
any info would be appreciated.
An overloaded microphone can't be fixed with settings. That's a mechanical failure. These mics are very small and work well at volumes below around 96db.
The settings will adjust themselves using software AGC. The distortion you're hearing is due to the mic diaphragm slamming into the magnet.
Best bet: try to find some mylar sheet plastic, cut it into 2cm x 1cm rectangles. Tape them in layers over the microphone hole until the mic is no longer overloaded. Try two sheets: my son did that at a concert and the quality was what I'd expect for a cheap microphone, but not distorted. That was an iPhone. I have no idea what the SPL rating on the two mics is, or which is "better".
You can use other materials, but mylar seems to be stiff enough to preserve the hi-hat/cymbals while cutting the pressure of the sound waves hitting the mic transducer.
Currently I have a Samsung GS3 and I've been thinking about picking up an HTC One. I go to a lot of concerts and one of the major issues I have with the GS3 is the terrible audio quality when recording loud music. I know I'm not going to get studio quality sound when recording with a phone, but I'd at least like to be able to make out the song - this is not possible with the GS3 because any time there is loud bass, it distorts so badly that the entire recording is unlistenable. So my question is this: Has anyone recorded a loud rock concert with the HTC One? If so, how was the quality? If anyone has a youtube link to a concert they recorded, I would be very grateful. TIA.
From my experience, the audio recording quality is pretty good compared to my old Galaxy Note. Here's one at a club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSyxpHgsDkM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I don't think there's any distort in the audio but you can listen and hear for yourself.
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Yeah that sounds way better than the GS3. Thanks
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One of the things that has kept me on the Evo 3D is simply the call quality. The internal speaker is excellent and the internal microphone has excellent pickup with minimal noise. In fact, a few times I had issues with making audio recordings on my computer, I used my Evo 3D to record and the quality was great!
HOWEVER....
When using a headset with a microphone, it is a different story. I have used a number of ear buds with microphones and still the recorded audio quality is noticeably inferior to the internal microphone. What really brought this to my attention was a recent experiment that I did.
I have a set of the newer styled Apple EarPods. Yes, the sound quality from the drivers is rather average, but... when I use the microphone on an iPod and make an audio recording, the microphone records very decent audio quality. I then used the same EarPods on my HTC Evo 3D to record and... there's a lot of background noise, as if there's absolutely no noise cancellation. When I had a call with someone where I switched between my usual earbuds and the Apple EarPods, the latter sounded flatter and more distant, but in both cases using the internal microphone resulted in much better sound. FWIW, I also adjusted the position of the microphone, from lying near my chest to held right up to my mouth.
So my question is this: Is there a known microphone quality issue with the headset jacks on the HTC Evo 3D?
I have 2 Evo 3D phones and conducted the same experiment on both with practically identical results, so I don't think there's a QC issue with the phones. Either the headset jack circuitry has a design problem creating sub par performance OR... do internal microphones always best headset microphones on cellphones?
Thanks....
Hi there, just some real life experience.
yesterday I was at a reggae concert (the skints from UK...check them out) with very high bass volume. but generally there was a good powerful sound. So I took some video with my beloved ONYX. I was together with a friend of mine that took some videos using an iPhone 6.
SO.
MY video-> completely distorted sound. I mean you cannot hear anything but a distorted sound. terrible. really terrible
My friend video: perfect. no distortion at all clean and crisp sound.
I know the iPhone is THE flagship phone so every spec is at its top. but: do you think is possible to add some sort of frequency cut by software to our 1+X?
pakgio said:
Hi there, just some real life experience.
yesterday I was at a reggae concert (the skints from UK...check them out) with very high bass volume. but generally there was a good powerful sound. So I took some video with my beloved ONYX. I was together with a friend of mine that took some videos using an iPhone 6.
SO.
MY video-> completely distorted sound. I mean you cannot hear anything but a distorted sound. terrible. really terrible
My friend video: perfect. no distortion at all clean and crisp sound.
I know the iPhone is THE flagship phone so every spec is at its top. but: do you think is possible to add some sort of frequency cut by software to our 1+X?
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The mic on the OPX cannot record such low frequencies (bass). It will result in distortion. Use the mic on your earphones when recording to get decent audio quality.
Yes, this is one of the biggest downsides of the OPX, unfortunately...
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