NYMorningstar
Recording Modus Operandi
I know it depends on the individual mixes but are there starting points and ranges for volume, eq and compression for audio/video that will ultimately end up streamed to cell phones?
Hey NY, I've never actually mastered audio for mobile video, but I have written the audio portion of a few mobile games and other apps that have sound components to them that should sound good and its been my experience that people expect the audio coming from their phones to sound basically exactly like CD quality when they use headphones or run the headphone out into a line-in on something and the hardware in the phones will apply eq and such to the signal when the little speaker is being used (they generally assume its a CD quality signal and adjust for their particular speaker). HTH
Here is a good article which can give you some ideas...
Thanks man.
I have an mp4 video from a tv telethon that when played on a cellphone isn't loud enough to be heard from youtube. On a DVD player or computer the volume is ok, definitely not squashed. Do you have to max volume from the source for cellphones? So there is no special eqing to do because the hardware in the cell does it for you, nice.
I'm the guitar player in this. The monitors were 15' out ahead of us and they had a humming problem from the piped in electric for the tv lights so the tech couldn't/wouldn't turn them up loud enough for us to hear them well. While playing I was listening to a mix from the acoustic and monitors which had a little delay out and back. The video was recorded to a DVD recorder and then rendered to an mp4. My drummer has CP and is a grad from the Disability Center. He played Stevie Wonder so well the radio hosts thought he was blind, lol.... The speakers aren't loud though, of course, so if you like to have quiet mixes that would be a problem on some (or probably most) phones. They perform and sound acceptable with "typical" sources, I guess id say (ie...yea... Loud). They're (almost certainly) engineered to be most audible with loud, smashed, commercial stuff. I feel like im saying things you already know, lol. Do you have a link to your vid?
Yeah I noticed that too but thought it was lag, lol, I'm totally new to video. I guess it's something to do with the way youtube handles mp4's. I just edited it with youtube's stabilize button and it seems better but it takes awhile for the edit to get posted.The audio sounds fine now BUT seems a little out of synch.