Hi and welcome to the forum.
There are a number of topics and posts that deal with clipping of input volume resulting in unsatisfactory recording ~ this occured with the FP3 without any adapter ??
However see if you can try the adapter elsewhere as my suspicions lean to the phone’s software in trying to stop input overloads.
I made a video comparing the sound of a song with the default Camera app VS Open Camera (with different audio input settings):
Default audio is good when simply talking to the phone, but absolutly not when singing or playing music. But, as @corvuscorax pointed, “unprocessed” audio usually needs to amplify the gain to get a decent/normal audio level (I found that you can do it easily in Audiofix , but it would be really nice if you can choose the entry level or a kind of auto input level).
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Hi, welcome to the forum!
When the Fairphone 3 was released it had a bug that applied a kind of noise reduction filter to videos recorded with the default camera app. At that time I recorded a video to show it, in which I compared the original recording with a recording made with the Open Camera application (F-Droid or Play Store ) and with two different settings. You can watch it here:
[Fairphone 3 - Audio comparison when recording music videos]
I haven’t used Open Camera for a wh…
Thanks for your reply and suggestions
Hello @all,
I have serious problems with sound recordings on my new FP4.
(BACKGROUND I am a journalist and occasionally have to do sound recordings that are used in a professional way, so I have some experience doing this with different smartphones).
I’m sorry to put it that way but the onboard sound app of the FP4 is utter rubbish: catastrophic sample rate and no way to change that … alas, no settings at all
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