Thursday, October 18, 2012

Humanwires - Lunchtime (The Nokia 808 Garage Band Challenge, Part II) @ Tampere, Finland

We also wanted to find out how well the Nokia 808 performs when the whole band is playing. This is, of course, a bit more challenging situation since there is a lot more happening and everything is recorded to the same audio track.

We think the phone handled all the sounds pretty well. We didn't hear any distortion in the original audio track and all the instruments can be distinguished from each other (although the drums dominate a bit but that's not the phone's fault). Compression was added to the audio track afterwards but nothing else.

The awesome explosion animation in the intro is fromhttp://wrathgames.com/blog

The Nokia 808 Garage Band Challenge, Part I: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFETuFL6iG4

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Humanwires - Silence/Noise (The Nokia 808 Garage Band Challenge, Part I) @ Tampere, Finland

When your band consists of two soon-to-be engineers and one wannabe-engineer experimentation with technology is inevitable.

We wanted to know how well the Nokia 808 Pureview can handle loud sounds in a not-so-friendly sound environment (also known as a garage), so we took one of our songs and recorded every instrument individually with the phone and compiled the audio tracks together. The result is yours to listen. The only processing we did to the audio tracks was compression and a low cut EQ to the vocal track which means that what you are hearing is pretty much as it was recorded by the phone.

We also put a short clip of the studio version of this song about half way through the video so you can hear what the original piece sounds like. It is, of course, quite a bit clearer since it was recorded in a controlled environment with professional studio gear.

All in all we think the result is pretty good considering the fact that it is recorded with a phone. Our curious minds would like to know what kind of results one could achieve in a professional studio environment with this thing. Maybe there is some brave studio engineer up for the task...

The Nokia 808 Garage Band Challenge, Part II: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdbvO1zFBCg

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Hoedown 10th anniversary concert @ Poselli, Rauma, Finland 17/10/2012

Technical info: video recorded with Nokia 808 cell phone (in very dark conditions :) Handheld, image stabilization by Youtube video editor. :) 720p/25fps to save some space.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Jorma Kääriäinen & Band - And I Love You So (Elvis cover) @ Hotel Kimmel, Joensuu, Finland 12/10/2012

Kaunis rakkauslaulu.
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Poets of the Fall - Illusion and Dream @ Hotel Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland 12/10/2012

Poets of the fall 12.10 Vantaan hotellilla.
Kuvattu Nokia pureview 808 kameralla.

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Poets of the Fall - Signs of Life @ Hotel Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland 12/10/2012

Poets of the fall 12.10 Vantaan hotellilla.
Kuvattu Nokia pureview 808 kameralla.

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Jorma Kääriäinen & Band - Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis cover) @ Hotel Kimmel, Joensuu, Finland 12/10/2012

Suomen Elvis. Lopuksi karatea ,niin kuin Elviskin esitti konserteisaan.
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