So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
Not really; low pressure mic trying to to record high pressure audio created by a speaker which then travels through air. Sorry.
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I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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radrian92 said:
I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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Hmm interesting, I had my headphones in my pocket too. I'll have to try that next time.
I have never had a phone that could record quality audio at a concert regardless of the operating system. I havent heard of the headphone trick but the phone would use that mic instead of the actual device mic so its worth a shot.
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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Wrong post. Haha.
chrischoi said:
Wrong post. Haha.
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You didn't happen to go the Art Institute of Pgh did you? i saw you're from PA. I went to AIP with a Chris Choi.
dennistpm said:
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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What's Record Forge? I googled it but nothing came up besides a bunch of results for Forge Records.
Sorry. My bad. It's called RecForge.
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Gotcha...thanks.
dennistpm said:
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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So wait. You can shoot a video and this program will separately record the sound? What happens to the sound from the native video app? I'm confused
EDIT: It does not seem to work. Every time RecForge is recording, the video fails to record immediately.
From everything I've experienced, all native Android sound recording is pretty poor. I have the paid version of Hi-Q MP3 Recorder and I've found it to work quite well. I emailed the dev a few weeks back asking to give options to increase the recording bit rate, and you now have the ability to record up to 320kbps. It'll of course take up more room, but the quality is better. It records straight to mp3 file instead of amr or whatever the stock one uses.
I don't know how well it'll work for concerts though, as that's just a really loud environment!
And if you wanted to get just the audio from any video recording, there's an app called Freecorder (don't know if available for Macs) which takes any audio directly from the sound card of your computer. No background interference or anything like that, right from the card so anything playing through your computer will be recorded. It's great for getting any audio from a video, or a streaming file, though I don't condone stealing
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zeron89 said:
So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
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I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
salsa2333 said:
I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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mattzeller said:
I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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No, I haven't tried that but my guess is that it would sound pretty muffled. I'm going to try different camera apps next but I'm trying to understand what that "concert mode" does internally in the Droid4. There's an app called "LG Camera" that seems to have some pretty robust settings for the audio. You can potentially change the audio encoder, the samplerate and the bitrate. There's also an option to "enable stereo mode" (if device supports stereo sound recording). Possibly one of those settings could do it?
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I also found this thread which makes me think I'm on to something with the LG Camera app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/mod-hacked-camera-apk-audio-quality-t1104051
I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
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aarongillion63 said:
There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
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You're doing this with your HTC one? You must have a massive butthole....
1BadWolf said:
I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
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Any luck?
I know there are ways to turn up in-call volumes and such using codes. Are there any codes to turn down the microphone input for video recording? I took some awesome, clear video at a Two Door Cinema Club concert on Friday but the audio is really bad. It's way over-modulated. My friend with an iPhone 4s took some video that wasn't as good as mine but his audio was pretty good.
I searched for a half hour and gave up. It sounded like voodoo sound could do it but there's no s3 compatability. DSP manager from cm might work?
Sorry, this may sound vague, but I only vaguely remember about this!
There was a mod I saw maybe 6-8 weeks ago that was for audio on sgs3. It mentioned some files in (I think) /system/etc/. Maybe if you search audio mods or something similar you will find it and can use the info to make your own adjustments.
Sorry I cant say more but im bout to have to go for a while and wanted to at least give you something to search on.
Or maybe someone remembers more specifically?
If not ill look later.
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It looks like this has been a problem for a few years..... I searched even more and now I'm annoyed something so simple isn't available in video recorders. I tried at least 5 camera apps.
If you want to record separately Recforge has +/- 20db.
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m4r10 said:
I know there are ways to turn up in-call volumes and such using codes. Are there any codes to turn down the microphone input for video recording? I took some awesome, clear video at a Two Door Cinema Club concert on Friday but the audio is really bad. It's way over-modulated. My friend with an iPhone 4s took some video that wasn't as good as mine but his audio was pretty good.
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Check out my Post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32970562#post32970562
I was able to fix some audio problems. An external mic is always an option too! if you can find an android headset with a good microphone, the audio will be directed to that Microphone instead.
Any new findings on this? The link in the post above is a bad thread...
Sad we had to fix this problem with the S1 yet here we are with the same issue with the S3... I dunno if its as bad or not but its def not GOOD! I may have to grab the ole galaxy S1 with voodoo sound just to record a video..
Hello!
Alright so here's the deal. When I go to record videos on apps such as keek or vine or even now instagram - the videos all have such low audio it's like there is no audio unless I like yell in the video. Now when recording with the standard camera app everything is just fine - no audio problems. The volume is the same both times - at it's highest but I just can't seem to figure out what kind of problem this is. My mic is fine in phone calls etc etc - but any apps from google play = terrible audio! So... tell me people - what shall I do?
zmirza said:
Hello!
Alright so here's the deal. When I go to record videos on apps such as keek or vine or even now instagram - the videos all have such low audio it's like there is no audio unless I like yell in the video. Now when recording with the standard camera app everything is just fine - no audio problems. The volume is the same both times - at it's highest but I just can't seem to figure out what kind of problem this is. My mic is fine in phone calls etc etc - but any apps from google play = terrible audio! So... tell me people - what shall I do?
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Same problem here, WHY is there no info about this, its incredibly annoying , im looking to sell my phone because of this issue has been going on since december
so... no one knows what to do ?
zmirza said:
Hello!
Alright so here's the deal. When I go to record videos on apps such as keek or vine or even now instagram - the videos all have such low audio it's like there is no audio unless I like yell in the video. Now when recording with the standard camera app everything is just fine - no audio problems. The volume is the same both times - at it's highest but I just can't seem to figure out what kind of problem this is. My mic is fine in phone calls etc etc - but any apps from google play = terrible audio! So... tell me people - what shall I do?
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I have been having the same problem ever since instagram video came out...
and surprisingly I couldn't find ANYTHING online when i googled it .. .
I tried restarting... re-installing Instagram and nothing fixed... very low sound in video and i cant even hear it in both rear and front facing camera.. I even tried with headphones but no luck...
check out my videos on instagram and see the problem :'( ID : sinadanesh87
it's extremely annoying....
NOTE:
i also noticed that whenever I puch the camera to post something phone goes on SILENT mode itself... which is absolutely weird .... hope a fix is on the way.
thanks ..
i have the same problem!!
zmirza said:
Hello!
Alright so here's the deal. When I go to record videos on apps such as keek or vine or even now instagram - the videos all have such low audio it's like there is no audio unless I like yell in the video. Now when recording with the standard camera app everything is just fine - no audio problems. The volume is the same both times - at it's highest but I just can't seem to figure out what kind of problem this is. My mic is fine in phone calls etc etc - but any apps from google play = terrible audio! So... tell me people - what shall I do?
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i have the same problem. Couldn't find the fix
hi guys,
I was wondering if you guys who allready got the G3, could test the audio recirding quality,
what I mean is, G2 has a problem with noise cancelation microphone, and very often (allways) video recording sounds distorted, like underwater, cutouts, blanks, etc etc. '
is that problem still persistent with the G3, as the camera module is the same, so nto sure if they used the same microphones as well..?
please get back to me with this, I know that the majority of users wont notice this while playing recording on a cell phone, but when you play ot on a tv or laptop, the issues is very very big
seriously, no one has G3?
The audio recording in my opinion is great.
Gabre said:
seriously, no one has G3?
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There is another thread on here somewhere with regards to this, sorry I don't have the link.
I haven't tested it yet myself, waiting for an opportunity to be in a loud club or something to give it a whirl.
Also search YouTube there may be some videos on there by now.
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Hey all.
Been traveling for a few weeks so taking a lot of videos.
For the past week or so the audio has been terrible for recorded videos.
Some 3rd party apps like what's app and Snapchat have no audio when I record, but the main camera app does and it does really muffly and quiet.
What's odd is that if I record a voice note it sounds fine, so the microphone does work.
Any idea what could be the problem?
Thanks for any help
You could possibly have one of your fingers on the microphone whilst you are recording. I have done that before and it makes the audio muffled or near impossible to hear.