Topic: Can you record audio only with Nokia 920?

[johnny9fingers]

There are a gazillion concert videos recorded with the 920 out in cyber space, but I haven't been able to find out if its possible to record audio only.  Anyone here done it?  And if you have, how?
Thanks,
John

[LikeASong]

Yes, it has an audio-only recorder. Nevertheless, its quality is somehow smaller than the audio that accompanies the videos - don't ask me why. The audio recorder might be specifically designed (aka freq-cut) to record human voice, or the bitrates are lower, or don't know what, but it doesn't sound as good as the vids.

By the way, I once recorded excellent audio quality (I didn't have my recorder with me) with a pair of external mics, using a cable like this:



So it forces the phone to use the cable as mic; then a cable like this:



And then a bbox plus a pair of mics plugged into that 3'5 female. Excellent result for not having a dedicated recorder!

[johnny9fingers]

Thanks LikeASong,  I'll give something like that a try....

[Kevin T]

The 920 has a unique distortion avoid method. A 20db pad path is dynamically switched in at 120 dbspl.  Can make brickwall free captures a concerts for the 1st time n cellphone!

[Kevin T]

Unfortnately unlike the 808 the 920 is mono only.  As a wireless telecom audio eng this topic really inerests me:-)

[LikeASong]

Yes, it has an audio-only recorder. Nevertheless, its quality is somehow smaller than the audio that accompanies the videos - don't ask me why. The audio recorder might be specifically designed (aka freq-cut) to record human voice, or the bitrates are lower, or don't know what, but it doesn't sound as good as the vids.

By the way, I once recorded excellent audio quality (I didn't have my recorder with me) with a pair of external mics, using a cable like this:



So it forces the phone to use the cable as mic; then a cable like this:



And then a bbox plus a pair of mics plugged into that 3'5 female. Excellent result for not having a dedicated recorder!

Forgot to say I was using a Nokia N8, but the voice recorder is identical to your phone's