Make sure there are no bubbles or seams in the edges of the tape that might leak higher-volume sounds, and experiment with different thicknesses of tape (duct, masking, paper, etc) until you find one that works best with your phone and environment. Good thing Scotch tape is all you need to address this tricky situation! Just place a small piece of tape over the microphone hole(s) on your phone and it will reduce the amount of sound that’s able to enter the mic, often giving you a much better result. Given most smartphones aren’t so flexible with setting custom gain (and distort easily at high volumes), there’s not always a great solution in your phone’s software. At best, it sounds like somebody turned on a fuzz box at worst, it’s a totally inaudible mess. Unfortunately, the ambient audio in the room was too loud for the gain on your camera, and it clipped your recording levels. So you’re at a loud concert or dance club and everything you shot has an audio track that sounds like static. Big productions generally use a clapper board, but a simple, loud, on-camera clap can give you the same visual (and audio) cue you’ll need to align your smartphone audio track with the raw video tracks later. To make it easier when cutting everything back together, don’t forget one of the oldest cinematic tricks in the book: Have your subject clap his or her hands loudly once everything’s recording, then wait another second to start talking. Then just overlay or mix the phone track onto your video track later, and reduce the volume of (or delete) the original audio track.
Usually it’s just a distance problem: When you’re far enough to get the shot framed the way you want it, the camera mic isn’t close enough to pick up a good, clean audio take.īut you don’t need a microphone and boom to solve this problem. Grab your smartphone, hit record, and then set it just out of frame, close to your subject-and start recording. Many times the shot you want doesn’t make for good audio. And when using consumer cameras, you’re often stuck with a less-than-optimal microphone to begin with.īut if you have a reasonably modern smartphone, you have all you need to record great audio on location.
There’s an old saying: Nothing ruins a great video like lousy audio.
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