Topic: Please confirm... Is this cell phone static?

[xFILMERx]

Last night I filmed Aaron Lewis at Mohegan. Playing back the video, I have static at spots throughout the recording.

At first I thought I blew out my camcorder mic at sevendust the night before.
Now I'm thinking it was the kid next to me texting the entire night.
Please let me know what you guys think... Also if anything can be done to fix it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=943f8da2c0e742e3d0d290dca69ceb5ce04e75f6e8ebb871

[jacobmyers]

Bummer about your recording.

It definitely doesn't sound like any cellular RF interference I've ever heard. It does seem to happen when the sound levels are highest. I'm on the wife's computer, so I can't see the waveform. Have you inspected it for clipping?

Barring that, it could be a physical defect. That's what it sounds like to me. A loose solder joint (or loose connection of any kind) could be the problem. Perhaps the high SPL of the show the night before vibrated the connection loose. Or, if the SPL was high enough, it could have physically dislodged the microphone. But it does sound more like a loose connection to me.

Forget about trying to fix it the recording. There's no "plugin" that I'm aware of that would do it. Working with a "pencil tool" would be time-consuming at best and would likely sound "wrong" when you were done with it. Good luck!

[xFILMERx]

Thanks for the reply. I just confirmed it wasn't a cell. Apparently I had the audio levels set to manual, and
way to high...

fuck.

[digifish_music]

Thanks for the reply. I just confirmed it wasn't a cell. Apparently I had the audio levels set to manual, and
way to high...

You know, with the application of some declipping technology you can recover most of that recording...

For example

www.digifishmusic.com/public/sounds/TapersSection_clip1_declipped.wav

www.digifishmusic.com/public/sounds/TapersSection_clip2_declipped.wav

www.digifishmusic.com/public/sounds/TapersSection_clip3_declipped.wav

...at least it is listenable. Sounds slightly distorted, but nothing too nasty. What is unexpected is that while it is digitally clipped, the max level is -11 dB. What else were you doing that is odd?

digifish

[xFILMERx]

Hey fish. Thanks for the reply.
Can you tell me what program you used to clean up the recording?

That is the first time I used manual audio settings for a concert,
because sevendust the night before was slightly distorted.

The weird thing is that for aaron lewis I had the levels set to less than half.

Testing it out later with manual settings the clipping came back just
recording my tv in my bedroom, and switching to auto the clipping stopped.