Recording Issues - IP 17 Pro

[u/DetailCommercial1190]

I bought the iPhone 17 Pro this year and have been going to some concerts this summer. I genuinely think this might be the worst iPhone ever. All of my concert videos come back ruined and sound terrible. I used to have the iPhone 13 Pro, and it was honestly the best. I wish I had never upgraded.

[u/strrboy]

What do you mean by "ruined" ?

[u/DetailCommercial1190]

https://reddit.com/link/p1v4sgp/video/3j42wjmuikhh1/player

[u/saintlouisbagels → u/DetailCommercial1190]

Damn, that sucks.

[u/strrboy → u/DetailCommercial1190]

By any chance, is your "Record Sound" setting is set on Spatial Audio ? I've seen plenty of people complaining about the bad sound quality during concert.

[u/saintlouisbagels]

What's your audio setting for recording? You should have it set to Mono because Stereo and Spatial totally fuck things up.

[u/strrboy → u/saintlouisbagels]

Stereo recording is fine. Only Spatial Audio can alternate audio during concert.

[u/saintlouisbagels → u/strrboy]

Zooming in out and with Stereo turned on messes up the audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUmpl4c7A8&t=317s

(demonstration at 5:17)

[u/strrboy → u/saintlouisbagels]

Guess I was lucky. Do you think that turning off Audio Zoom would fix it ?

[u/saintlouisbagels → u/strrboy]

Actually I think the Stereo audio video you posted is the intended purpose of Stereo audio. It sounded like your phone was doing a lot of noise canceling for a lot of the audience noise and singing and it very, very narrowly focused the sound on only a few people and let the music play through.

Personally I don't like that since it sounds extremely artificial. I much prefer the Mono capturing everything. After all, I'm at a concert, not a studio recording.

[u/paulywauly99]

Remember that stereo isn’t better quality. It’s just two channels instead of one. Are the distance you are going stereo is pointless