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[Q]Mic equalizer?

Hi guys,
Two weeks ago, I went to a music show. My friend and I have tried to record a video of it. The thing is, he own an iPhone 4 and I got a Nexus 4. When we listened the videos, his was perfect, the sound was so good. Mine, I don't want to talk about it. My video looked better but the sound was so distortionned it was unrecognizable.
My question is: I wonder if there are a mod or something to do to get an "equalizer" or something else that could deal with those distortions like the apple phone do.
I know there are several mods increasing the quality of sound and video of the device but none work like a kind of equalizer.
Thanks!

Beremus said:
Hi guys,
Two weeks ago, I went to a music show. My friend and I have tried to record a video of it. The thing is, he own an iPhone 4 and I got a Nexus 4. When we listened the videos, his was perfect, the sound was so good. Mine, I don't want to talk about it. My video looked better but the sound was so distortionned it was unrecognizable.
My question is: I wonder if there are a mod or something to do to get an "equalizer" or something else that could deal with those distortions like the apple phone do.
I know there are several mods increasing the quality of sound and video of the device but none work like a kind of equalizer.
Thanks!
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There's an app called DSP Audio Filter and from the screenshots it looks like this app has a Mic Gain adjuster. However, this app is not free, just so you're aware

I'll look foward to it! Thanks!
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Is the audio when recording and shooting video fixed?

The S4 and Note 3 have this issue, random and quite annoying popping when recording audio. I was really disappointed when I heard it on the Note 3! Hopefully it has been fixed on the S5!
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's there?

popping? my s4 never had any pops. it recorded amazing audio.
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cpufrost said:
The S4 and Note 3 have this issue, random and quite annoying popping when recording audio. I was really disappointed when I heard it on the Note 3! Hopefully it has been fixed on the S5!
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's there?
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We'll see when I get mine. I'll let you know. But I think, it'll not be there for some S4 and Note 3, there's no popping when they record.

I've had numerous S4 and Note III samples through my hands and they have this issue. It's not an isolated issue. My Note II, HTC One, G2, iPhone 3/4/5s etc. have no such issues whatsoever. Normally I record video and audio separately but the argument (the best camera is the one you have with you) applies to a cell phone to capture things as they happen, unplanned. It's annoying to have these sounds in the audio.

cpufrost said:
The S4 and Note 3 have this issue, random and quite annoying popping when recording audio. I was really disappointed when I heard it on the Note 3! Hopefully it has been fixed on the S5!
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's there?
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Do you have an example of the issue?

weird i never experienced such thing on s3, n2, s4..

like I said, I've recorded plenty of guitar videos with my s4, through a Marshall dsl100 stack, which is loud and bassy, and it never ever ever had a problem with audio. it was always so clear and detailed, albeit only 128kbps. my g2 has that horrible underwater wishy-washy sound that makes the video camera unusable. I've never once seen audio artifacting on the s4. I had the snapdragon version, maybe you had the exynos?
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my audio was terrible on my S3 when recording video at festivals/concerts...hope this is fixed on the S5...everyone i know that has iPhones has no issue recording loud audio.

jayochs said:
like I said, I've recorded plenty of guitar videos with my s4, through a Marshall dsl100 stack, which is loud and bassy, and it never ever ever had a problem with audio. it was always so clear and detailed, albeit only 128kbps. my g2 has that horrible underwater wishy-washy sound that makes the video camera unusable. I've never once seen audio artifacting on the s4. I had the snapdragon version, maybe you had the exynos?
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Yes the problem is not with loud music like other devices which hard clip especially on kick drum hits...
This popping noise is most common when it's very quiet like recording at night with just the crickets outside...
And yes the audio was completely unusable on the G2 for me as well, if you recorded video in a loud cafe, no problem. But as soon as you went into a quiet area the gain levelers started getting really confused and there was all kinds of problems with sound. Ashame too since its camera (G2) was so nice...
Back to the S5, I have one in hand and while I have not put it through the gears my preliminary findings reveal a completely changed recording from the S4/Note3 hardware. The AGC does tend to bring up the levels higher when ambient sound changes but at least there's no nasty pops. The pops on the S4/Note3 can be removed with a click/decrackle plugin on most DAW software but they shouldn't be in there in the first place. This looks promising.
The video low light performance looks very good, I was shining a focused down aspheric torch (flashlight) around the pasture at long range and the screen was 100% black except where the beam was hitting objects at hundreds of yards away (barn, trees, etc.) and the detail looked shockingly good! I viewed the video on my Macbook Pro w/ retina display so it's a valid test.
Have not tried to see if it's IR filtered. Tonight we'll have the burn barrels going, that's the best IR test I know of without taking it to the lab.
These processors are so powerful it would be nice if they gave us the option of lossless audio recording and even a RAW photo option, although these tiny sensors would need a LOT of post processing to make the images useable. Still, however I always find that RAW+ Photoshop CS6 post processing looks better than the camera's aggressive post processing tuned for speed and convenience. With a 128GB microSD card, RAW+JPG would be fine.
BoneXDA said:
Do you have an example of the issue?
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This is not me/my video, but this is exactly how it sounds. Both the S4 and Note3 do the same exact thing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwTBJ5ew08
pizzlewizzle said:
my audio was terrible on my S3 when recording video at festivals/concerts...hope this is fixed on the S5...everyone i know that has iPhones has no issue recording loud audio.
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Yep, I have several concerts recorded in 2012 and the audio clips worse than these kids with their pyramid amp powered systems playing hip hop with the bass turned to 11!
That's why I always record audio and video on separate devices. They won't allow a real camera (no cams with removable lenses that is!) in most venues...

I was at a gig on Friday night and sadly all my videos have distorted sound quality. Issue stll exists..
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I'm just back from a gig, i took a vid it seems fine on the phone a little blown out, but then again i was pretty near the speakers.

prot- said:
I was at a gig on Friday night and sadly all my videos have distorted sound quality. Issue stll exists..
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Yep, common issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0Oa4HYr6Y

I can confirm the popping is present in my unit too. Had it on S4 as well. It tends to occur less when the sound is turned to minimum while recording.
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Video sound quality - pretty bad

Hi all
Did not come across any threads about this yet, surprisingly!
I was recording video out in a nightclub, and was very disappointed to find that the music sounded horrible. Never had such problem on my HTC one when recording at concerts or clubs.
Here is the link of the video, I uploaded on youTube
http://youtu.be/SMpa7rumrHY
Otherwise, the OnePlus has been awesome so far!

Trance family, you listen to Markus Schulz? Love trance! Sucks about the sound, you on stock app?

Sound quality in general when it comes to recording nightclubs/gigs/concerts are pretty bad with the bass etc etc.
Not to mention "Turn It Up" is a song that involves a lot of bass and drops.
Try it in a closed atmosphere like at home and test the quality of the sound.
Ensure audio codec is AAC as well.

jark99 said:
Trance family, you listen to Markus Schulz? Love trance! Sucks about the sound, you on stock app?
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haha yeh man love markus Schulz! one of my fav trance DJs
yeh stock camera app, running 33R stock and Franco 20 kernel.

I noticed this as well. I really doesn't take a lot to distort the audio with OPO (and surprisingly when I had my Samsung Note 2 and ran a CM based rom I had this problem as well, using stock samsung camera / rom not a problem).
Not sure if this is phone related or just the camera app/rom combo.
I do have a sub in my car but I have recorded clearly with my old Note 2 but OPO it distorts like a mofo. It's quite embarrassing.

Bad mic
DAKIK said:
Hi all
Did not come across any threads about this yet, surprisingly!
I was recording video out in a nightclub, and was very disappointed to find that the music sounded horrible. Never had such problem on my HTC one when recording at concerts or clubs.
Here is the link of the video, I uploaded on youTube
http://youtu.be/SMpa7rumrHY
Otherwise, the OnePlus has been awesome so far!
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Damm thats a bad mic...it sounds horrible
I wanted to make the switch from the m7 too,but i do record sometimes at concerts and clubs...And the htc m7 does this perfect.
So this is a no go for me this oneplus one,A pitty):

The early m7s had dual membrane mics specifically for recording in very loud concert environments. Some supply issue came up with the manufacturer and they had to stop supplying to htc because of nokia.

john291 said:
Damm thats a bad mic...it sounds horrible
I wanted to make the switch from the m7 too,but i do record sometimes at concerts and clubs...And the htc m7 does this perfect.
So this is a no go for me this oneplus one,A pitty):
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Yeh same here! Im still hoping its a software problem and can be fixed in the near future!
kokocabana said:
The early m7s had dual membrane mics specifically for recording in very loud concert environments. Some supply issue came up with the manufacturer and they had to stop supplying to htc because of nokia.
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Yep I remember that when the M7 came out, it was a bit of a fuss!

Ah familiar issue.
Went to a party last week and recorded some videos, as soon as the bass drops you only hear crackling noises on the video.
Friend recorded with his iphone and the recorded audio sounded a LOT better.
I also tried to cover the microphone to see if that helped but it made no difference.

Known Bug
That's a known issue.
Have a look at the Cyanogenmod JIRA Ticket No. BACON-64
If you are registered there, please give it a vote, so it will soon be fixed.

has anybody found a fix for this? will changing to a different rom solve the problem? cyanogen just dont wanna fix this problem. its been a reported bug for ages now. even before the OPO.

I m also facing the same problem, please let us know if anyone find a fix
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This problem can be fixed with the Boeffla-Kernel for OPO, but they need the technical documentaion of the "WDC9320" audio codec.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55920852&postcount=21
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That's a known issue.
Have a look at the Cyanogenmod JIRA Ticket No. BACON-64
If you are registered there, please give it a vote, so it will soon be fixed.
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Does somebody know whether it for it already a solution has given?

Found this on the OP forums
Code:
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/audio-clipping-in-loud-environments.108129/
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"So ive tried heaps of things to try and fix this bug, one thing that may have worked is downloading this free app from the app store
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grace.microphone&hl=en
and setting mic gain to 0. i have done this and the audio quality has increased 100% and is comparable with the iphone."

Most likely a ****ty mic on the oneplus, nothing to do with the software.
HTC one uses unlicensed mic from Nokia,which is far superior.

Bump

Does anyone know whether this bug is present in Oxygen OS or not?

TheBogeyman said:
That's a known issue.
Have a look at the Cyanogenmod JIRA Ticket No. BACON-64
If you are registered there, please give it a vote, so it will soon be fixed.
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Here's the link:
h ttps://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-64[/url]
Please give it a vote indeed. It's a shame that this kind of bug is present.

This must be why my Soundhound never is able to identify music most of the time in nightclubs :/

Salty Wagyu said:
This must be why my Soundhound never is able to identify music most of the time in nightclubs :/
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Yeah i also had the same issue last week

Noise reduction/cancellation on Lolipop 5.1.1

Hi there,
Firstly i'm sorry if there are any other posts related to this subject, i've searched and i found no results.
I've just purchased a new toy "Note 4" Vodafone Romania. I absolutely love this phone. Usually when i buy a new phone i'm testing to see if there are any quality problems left over by the Samsung Quality Department.
The only thing that i've managed to find and it really bothers me is that in call quality is quite low due to noise reduction not working!? I've tried to check/uncheck dialog box for many times, restart the device, clear phone app cache and data nothing seems to work. Altough all the mics seems to work correctly in all recording modes terefore i don't think it's a hardware issue.
Does anyone experience this issue? Or could you please tell me if i have a faulty unit or it's just a software issue that can be fixed by Marshmallow perhaps?
Thank you.

the call quality on my note 4 is very good and loud (compared to my nexus 4). What 5.1.1 in particular is your phone on?

imeem said:
the call quality on my note 4 is very good and loud (compared to my nexus 4). What 5.1.1 in particular is your phone on?
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Hi,
I also experience a clear and loud voice reception on my note 4. The problem is with noise reduction setting, the problems is on the other side of the line, in loud environments the person who am i talking with can hear me well, but also can hear the noise in the background pretty well so it seems that with or without noise reduction active it has the same result background noise isn't suppressed.
I come from Note 3 where even in very loud environments the noise reduction was acting flawless, on the other line i was heard like sitting on the couch in a "zen - place".
The mics are working flawless, so i suppose it's a software issue.
Any dev. that could help me?
Thanks.

Background noise when recording video in silence

Hello boys,
Is all this background noise normal when recording video in complete silence???
https://youtu.be/T3qTX0aTv3o
I didn't notice until today, but I had not tried it before either. Normal recording with voice or music in the background is perfectly ok.
Thank you.

Sony Vegas. Edit the hr din bf. Then sound good away
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that problem reminds me nexus 4.... hope your is defective.. not a design flaw.

bipoler said:
Sony Vegas. Edit the hr din bf. Then sound good away
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Yeah, well, maybe it fixes it, but if it is my phone that is faulty, I'd rather prefer to have that fixed.
jtwlbz said:
that problem reminds me nexus 4.... hope your is defective.. not a design flaw.
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I didn't have a nexus 4, but nexus 5 had this sort of problem too. But I can't remember it as bad as the video I posted. If it's software stuff or design flaw it can't be helped.. but I'd like to make sure that it's not just my device, otherwise I will better RMA it.

dramake said:
Yeah, well, maybe it fixes it, but if it is my phone that is faulty, I'd rather prefer to have that fixed.
I didn't have a nexus 4, but nexus 5 had this sort of problem too. But I can't remember it as bad as the video I posted. If it's software stuff or design flaw it can't be helped.. but I'd like to make sure that it's not just my device, otherwise I will better RMA it.
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The intermittent buzzing(I think it actually sounds like a cat purring) is the auto-focus on the camera. It appears that every Nexus 6p has this issue in some capacity.
Here is a video I recorded demonstrating what I'm talking about.
When I noticed the issue an hour or so ago I started researching it myself and saw some videos others have recorded and posted of the problem and honestly it doesn't seem like it is as bad as it seems. The noise itself is very hard to hear if there is any background noise. I recorded my video in silence, so the "purring" is very audible, however in your video and others I could barely hear it, and that was while also listening for it.

In fact in my video I can't hear that clicking noise. I will try sometime doing the same test you did.
The reason of the thread was the general noise that you can hear at the background all the time. I ordered a replacement but it had the same noise, so I assume it's completely normal and I returned it since the screen of my first phone was, I think, better.