Anyone Tried To Record A Concert?

[Defessus]

This seems promising.

The acoustic set from my concert tonight sounded pretty damn good, i'm uploading a test vid to youtube shorlty that i'll link.


The electric set sounded as I expected, HOWEVER:

I found that I could greatly improve the sound quality by simply manually lowering the sound in the VLC player i was playing it in on my computer. When i re encode the rest of these tomorrow, i'll be sure to manually edit the sound down (to around 30%) since it seems to be taking out a lot of the background noise by lowering it that much when playing back. (Usually I find it doesnt matter how much I lower the volume, it still is distorted so this is a nice discovery.)

[SwordOfWar]

This seems promising.

The acoustic set from my concert tonight sounded pretty damn good, i'm uploading a test vid to youtube shorlty that i'll link.


The electric set sounded as I expected, HOWEVER:

I found that I could greatly improve the sound quality by simply manually lowering the sound in the VLC player i was playing it in on my computer. When i re encode the rest of these tomorrow, i'll be sure to manually edit the sound down (to around 30%) since it seems to be taking out a lot of the background noise by lowering it that much when playing back. (Usually I find it doesnt matter how much I lower the volume, it still is distorted so this is a nice discovery.)

you could try changing the compression of the audio when recording high quality video. There is a post somewhere that mentioned editing a file to raise the bitrate of video (you could do the same for the audio setting, i suppose)... that might give you more of what you want.

You might have to bump your phone to 800MHz though, as raising those settings causes more stress on the phone. I noticed that changing the recording fps from 25 to 30 and increasing the bitrate from 3mbps to 6-8 cause the video to clip, stutter and cut out sometimes during the recording (you won't notice it until you try playing the recorded video).

Also, video recording in low light situations causes a lot of extra stress on the phone too, for some reason. It seems like bright environments record like a breeze, but it can struggle in low light situations.

Picture taking seems to suck in moderate to low light as well. That dual led flash will blind the hell out of you though, and it always makes me look like I have red eye.

Anyway, hope you get what your looking for. I personally thought sound quality was great and loud, but I never tried to record a musical show. Works great for personal videos with mostly just speech.

[Defessus]

you could try changing the compression of the audio when recording high quality video. There is a post somewhere that mentioned editing a file to raise the bitrate of video (you could do the same for the audio setting, i suppose)... that might give you more of what you want.

You might have to bump your phone to 800MHz though, as raising those settings causes more stress on the phone. I noticed that changing the recording fps from 25 to 30 and increasing the bitrate from 3mbps to 6-8 cause the video to clip, stutter and cut out sometimes during the recording (you won't notice it until you try playing the recorded video).

Also, video recording in low light situations causes a lot of extra stress on the phone too, for some reason. It seems like bright environments record like a breeze, but it can struggle in low light situations.

Picture taking seems to suck in moderate to low light as well. That dual led flash will blind the hell out of you though, and it always makes me look like I have red eye.

Anyway, hope you get what your looking for. I personally thought sound quality was great and loud, but I never tried to record a musical show. Works great for personal videos with mostly just speech.

Yeah im running at 800mhz right now with the ROM I have. I'll look for that file to edit, see if I can find a link on the forums somewhere.

PS: I also notice that after I upped the bit rate on the recording, I dont get smooth recordings anymore, I get a few jumps and stutters in each of the songs. (for the video portion)

[m3kilpat]

Last December I went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra show in Albany, NY. It was at the Times Union Center so the venue was large and I was on the left side of the stage towards the back. The music they play is loud, but the audio came out really really good when I took a video. The video itself...not so great as the camera doesn't like flashing lights, strobes, and lasers too much.

[Jimmeh]

I find it better when you get on the opposite side of whoever is playing bass and close enough to one of the speakers to not be directly in front of it. I love how well the Droid handles drums. Usually that is what I find hard to capture. I've recorded a few and I thought these one a turned out pretty good although I have more on my channel where the bass took over with distortion. I'm going to try that sock method out.



Warning... Language on the second one



You will probably have to adjust the quality on youtube.