Rock Concert Recording

[stumbleflyx]

I'm wondering if anyone here has used their Droid RAZR MAXX to record an entire rock concert live and what the results ended up like. I'm into hard rock/heavy metal music. Bands typically play a setlist of 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours long. A few questions come to mind:

1. What was the size of the venue?
2. How was the sound on your ears (not having to do with the Droid RAZR MAXX) in relation to where your seat was?
3. How is the sound quality in the recording?
4. How is the video quality in the recording?
5. Does the battery last throughout the show? How long was the show and what battery percentage (if any) was left?

Am really curious about that last one. I wouldn't know if recording audio/video is more strenuous (probably is, just don't know by how much) on a battery or not. I also no zero about audio/video editing. That is, I wouldn't know if there's a way to bring out different sounds vs others from a recording.

Does anyone have any comments?

I play in a band and go to a lot of shows, i can test in one of our rehearsals, i did also just buy a nice Tascam handheld recorder and that thing sounds studio quality.

[JOSHSKORN]

I play in a band and go to a lot of shows, i can test in one of our rehearsals, i did also just buy a nice Tascam handheld recorder and that thing sounds studio quality.

Great. Post back the difference in quality in the two. It's also kind of nice to get an idea where we are in mobile technology and how well recording with a phone fares up against a dedicated recording device. I'm wondering if you're able to manipulate the sound on your recorder versus your MAXX, or run it through some other program in effort to get a better sound out of the recording. I know nothing about sound engineering, I think that's what it's called.

[rherron]

I have over 5000 live shows on CD and on misc drives (backed up across multiple devices, of course). I'm into music and into Bittorrent, and the artists I like allow taping and sharing of their shows. No way a cellphone can capture a live concert as well as someone who knows what they're doing with mics and other equipment designed for the task. I've listened to snippets of more than one show captured on an iPhone. Pretty bad.

Go to The Traders Den or Dime-a-Dozen and hope someone taped an artist you like and just download it.

[rherron]

Great. Post back the difference in quality in the two. It's also kind of nice to get an idea where we are in mobile technology and how well recording with a phone fares up against a dedicated recording device. I'm wondering if you're able to manipulate the sound on your recorder versus your MAXX, or run it through some other program in effort to get a better sound out of the recording. I know nothing about sound engineering, I think that's what it's called.

You can run any recording through a variety of audio programs to enhance the sound, but the most important thing is the quality of the original recording. If it's crappy it's not ever going to be great, no matter what you do to it. I use Sony Sound Forge. Other people like other programs.