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Any way for better recording at live venues?

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

I need a solution too!
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?

[Q] Any way to turn down mic sensitivity for video recording?

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..

Quiet microphone in Snapchat

Hi there
When recording videos with Snapchat, the sound is way too quiet. When using other apps like voice recorder or the camera app, it works fine. I also recently replaced the battery cover
I suspect the issue is something regarding which microphone Snapchat uses. Maybe the the mic doesn't function properly without the noice cancellation mic, which Snapchat may not utilise etc.
Does anyone else have this issue? Does anyone know how to fix it?
heres some more info on the problem: snapchat only records audio with the top mic on this phone, which is probably supposed to be used for noise cancellation. this issue is not apparent in all non-sense roms, like cm10.2 and aosp based romps; the mouthpiece mic is used to record audio so the audio works fine. but then in custom roms the camera profile is different, so it is not possible to record 10 second videos in snapchat. it stop recording at about 6 seconds. heres more info on the 2nd issue: https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-2343.
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jaw2floor said:
Hi there
When recording videos with Snapchat, the sound is way too quiet. When using other apps like voice recorder or the camera app, it works fine. I also recently replaced the battery cover
I suspect the issue is something regarding which microphone Snapchat uses. Maybe the the mic doesn't function properly without the noice cancellation mic, which Snapchat may not utilise etc.
Does anyone else have this issue? Does anyone know how to fix it?
heres some more info on the problem: snapchat only records audio with the top mic on this phone, which is probably supposed to be used for noise cancellation. this issue is not apparent in all non-sense roms, like cm10.2 and aosp based romps; the mouthpiece mic is used to record audio so the audio works fine. but then in custom roms the camera profile is different, so it is not possible to record 10 second videos in snapchat. it stop recording at about 6 seconds. heres more info on the 2nd issue: https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-2343.
Thanks
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Heey .. I've the same problem with my HTC ONE X ... this is what I dislike about Android in general, each phone has its own running kinda system, yet all android apps are the same in every device despite the differences.

ssiiggaa said:
Heey .. I've the same problem with my HTC ONE X ... this is what I dislike about Android in general, each phone has its own running kinda system, yet all android apps are the same in every device despite the differences.
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Unless you own a Nexus, GPe, or soon a "Silver" certified device. Something maybe to consider when purchasing my next phone

[Q] Crackling/Popping sound coming from my galaxy tab pro's speaker.HELP!

So i bought my wife a tablet for school. However we keep hearing this crackling sound/popping sound coming from the speaker when playing youtube videos, playing games such as jungle heat. It is really annoying because when we are watching videos we can hear the sound. If anyone could help us, I really appreciate it. This is the 3rd time we exchange this device but the result is still the same. I dont know if its just me. Thank You!

Can you post some music or a movie from youtube where you ARE sure you hear a lot of crackling? Just so we can check it out ourselves?
I have yet to experience this at all. It is weird if you have had that issue on 3 devices now. Do you have bass boosts or equalizer on?
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CuraeL said:
Can you post some music or a movie from youtube where you ARE sure you hear a lot of crackling? Just so we can check it out ourselves?
I have yet to experience this at all. It is weird if you have had that issue on 3 devices now. Do you have bass boosts or equalizer on?
/CuraeL
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Thanks for the reply, If i make a video of it you wont be able hear it. Here is the link were people having the same problem. I cant post a link because im still new to this forum but if you go to google and type random noise coming from speaker. Just click the first one and those people having the same problem as me
I can make a video but like i said you wont be ablet to hear it. Its just a random popping sound coming from the speaker. If i record it, you wont be able to hear it because the sound of the game. The popping sound comes from playing intense video games such as jungle heat and wathing youtube videos. Thanks for you reply and i really appreciate it

krabbster said:
Thanks for the reply, If i make a video of it you wont be able hear it. Here is the link were people having the same problem. I cant post a link because im still new to this forum but if you go to google and type random noise coming from speaker. Just click the first one and those people having the same problem as me
I can make a video but like i said you wont be ablet to hear it. Its just a random popping sound coming from the speaker. If i record it, you wont be able to hear it because the sound of the game. The popping sound comes from playing intense video games such as jungle heat and wathing youtube videos. Thanks for you reply and i really appreciate it
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Give me a youtube movie or clip of music. Not your recording mate. Just something original that makes it pop. A name of a song or a video. Doesn't matter. Do the people you talk about have the same tablet as you? Or random?

CuraeL said:
Give me a youtube movie or clip of music. Not your recording mate. Just something original that makes it pop. A name of a song or a video. Doesn't matter. Do the people you talk about have the same tablet as you? Or random?
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oh sorry lol. Any movies on youtube. Transfomer 1080p. Any 1080p videos. Also intense games like jungle heat,yugioh game. Yea they have the same problem also. I also check the one in bestbuy and still having the popping sound.

krabbster said:
oh sorry lol. Any movies on youtube. Transfomer 1080p. Any 1080p videos. Also intense games like jungle heat,yugioh game. Yea they have the same problem also. I also check the one in bestbuy and still having the popping sound.
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Had to go to work, I'll get back to ya in roughly 8 hours, sorry, lol.
/CuraeL

CuraeL said:
Had to go to work, I'll get back to ya in roughly 8 hours, sorry, lol.
/CuraeL
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ok no problem

If it is a hardware issue then Samsung should repair it if it is within the year warranty. Best buy should cover it if it is pretty new as well.
Are you running stock System? Have you checked to make sure you are up to date? Install Kies3 on your computer and see if it finds any updates.

bowserm said:
If it is a hardware issue then Samsung should repair it if it is within the year warranty. Best buy should cover it if it is pretty new as well.
Are you running stock System? Have you checked to make sure you are up to date? Install Kies3 on your computer and see if it finds any updates.
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I replace my tablet 3 times already and its still doing the same thing. I sent my device to samsung and they replace the hardware and still doing the same thing. The device is also updated to the latest firmware. Im really really sad because whenever watching a video and playing games, i can hear the popping sound. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much!!!

krabbster said:
I replace my tablet 3 times already and its still doing the same thing. I sent my device to samsung and they replace the hardware and still doing the same thing. The device is also updated to the latest firmware. Im really really sad because whenever watching a video and playing games, i can hear the popping sound. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much!!!
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I don't hear any popping or crackling sounds from my tab pro 8.4 I have tested with its internal Speakers, The Headphone jack, and using a bluetooth headset / headphones.
Does it have this problem when you plugin headphones or is it only the speakers? if it does it on all audio outputs then its most likely some kind of interference happening first try the headphone jack which is analog like the speakers.., bluetooth is digital with a2dp so it probably won't happen on that (though this could also be a temporary solution to use bluetooth external speaker or headphones)-
If it is interference then you need to find the source and hope it is coming from your own house , best way to find interference is to either unplug everything you can find or go to the house circuit breaker box and switch off the main switch this will turn off all electric in your house then use the tablet and play back a video /audio you have saved to the internal memory and see if it still happens.

Many people have this problem (including me). Any time the app you are using has something that emits sounds (even if you have muted your sound), you can hear crackling based on how heavy the CPU is working. It is most likely interference coming from the CPU. Not much anyone can do about it, except for Samsung. It would probably need a rework of the components though, that's why a simple replacement of the speakers will most likely not work. As soon as you put something in your 3.5mm jack though, the crackling should stop. (Most likely because the speakers get turned off physically instead of just being digitally muted) So really, the best we can hope for is we can find someone who may be able to create an app that emulates the headphone jack being used whenever the sound is muted. At least the crackling stops when the sound is muted then.

otyg said:
I don't hear any popping or crackling sounds from my tab pro 8.4 I have tested with its internal Speakers, The Headphone jack, and using a bluetooth headset / headphones.
Does it have this problem when you plugin headphones or is it only the speakers? if it does it on all audio outputs then its most likely some kind of interference happening first try the headphone jack which is analog like the speakers.., bluetooth is digital with a2dp so it probably won't happen on that (though this could also be a temporary solution to use bluetooth external speaker or headphones)-
If it is interference then you need to find the source and hope it is coming from your own house , best way to find interference is to either unplug everything you can find or go to the house circuit breaker box and switch off the main switch this will turn off all electric in your house then use the tablet and play back a video /audio you have saved to the internal memory and see if it still happens.
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It happens when im playing intense gaming such as jungle heat. Whenever i play jungle heat for 15 mins straight pop sound comes. When i plug an earphone i dont hear anything.
Trya playing jungle heat for 15 mins you might hear a popping sound coming from the speaker.

I have Samsung tab s5 e .. I have similar issue whenever watching netflix ,hotstar ,or some spotify songs ..I'm hearing like a cracking sound at one of the top left speaker ..I tried going to safe mode ..but still able to hear it ,,did a factory reset ,for a while it was good but later on it started .I'm not hearing this sounds in headphones ,it's really annoying ..while watching videos with intense music ..

Really bad audio from videos. Anyone else?

Does anyone else have really bad audio when taking videos?
For example if I take a video (using Instagrams camera) to post it on my story the audio is really staticky and just overall bad.
Not really sure if it's a hardware issue or maybe a software issue. Even cheaper phones would do better than this tbh

Just tested mine - seems ok. Try a different app though. Also what about if you just record audio with voice recorder app