Audio quality: video recording of loud music is noisy

[KasperBrandt]

The audio quality when recording loud music gets noisy real quick, making videos of a concert is nearly impossible for instance.

This never used to be an issue on my older Android phones, so I’m wondering if there’s a change I can make to the settings to get better audio quality?

[yvmuell]

Hi and welcome, Open Camera App might help you with this as long as Fairphone is working on the Software

Audio with ugly noise reduction/filtering

There seems to be an automatic noise reduction or filter that removes some of the audio but introduces very ugly audio artefacts. This affects videos but also voice messages. When I do not want this processing applied for videos I can use OpenCamera and select “unprocessed” for audio (automatic audio ducking in videos but for example with audio messages using a chat app (Signal, Threema) there is no such option and I’m left with this processing and the ugly artefacts in the recording. Is there a…

Edit: and I would contactsupport to male then aware of more user affected by this

[KasperBrandt]

Hi, thx for the quick response! I’ll give that camera app a go, I’d already tried the default camera app and a custom Google one, so figured that it wasn’t the software.

[Margo]

Hi everybody,
I have been owning my FP4 since June 24 and was really enjoying it despite some problems that have occurred so far.

When recording a video at a “Once in a lifetime” concert of my favourite band, however, it turned out that the audio quality is unbelievably bad. I was really shocked to find out that I cannot listen to any of the little snippets I took,because you can hardly hear the sound of the music. All you hear is heavy rushing and crashing and croaking noises.

I am using OPEN CAMERA because the default camera on my FP stopped working properly in July 24 ( see my other post).

Any ideas how to solve the problem?

Thanks in advance!

[yvmuell]

Do you already use the unprocessed setting in open camera? Btw moved your post here.

[Margo]

Thanks for your fast reply @yvmuell Where do I find that setting, please? Am very willing to try that out.

[yvmuell]

Scroll up and follow the linked topic to a topic explaining this in detail

[edr]

Just replying for posterity to confirm that changing this setting 100% fixes the issue (or at least it did for me!) I’ve had my FP4 for ~3 years and have been resigned to having basically unlistenable audio on videos from all but the quietest gigs. Changed this setting, and now back from a heavy metal gig last night and the audio on the videos I took is absolutely fine.

Every FP4 user should know this!