Thursday, April 25, 2013

Flute of Shame - Have You Ever Seen The Rain (CCR cover) @ Cafe Jazz, Pori, Finland 11/08/2012

NOKIA 808 PUREVIEWFlute of Shame is made up of three friends that met at The University of Hull, Scarborough Campus in 2005. The members Koop Arponen, James Lascelles and Dane Stefaniuk have been involved in a range of musical projects from an early age.
Flute of Shame was involved to the New Wave Song Contest final in Jurmala, Latvia 2011, where Koop and Flute of Shame won the Alla Pugacheva Golden Star Award.

Koop Juho Alexander Arponen (guitar, keyboards, vocals) was born in Finland 20th April 1984 to a Dutch mother and Finnish father. Koop Arponen is a Finnish singer/songwriter and Idols Winner in Finland 2008. He reached the finals and scored a massive 70,3% of the public vote, after singing 4 songs including Neil Young's Old Man and CCR's Have You Ever Seen The Rain.

Dane Michael Stefaniuk (bass guitar, vocals) was born in Manchester, United Kingdom on the 28th September 1984, where he lived until 2005. His musical roots lie within blues, soul and hard rock. He began composing at an early age shortly after joining his first band at school. 

James Stephen Daniel Lascelles (solo guitar, vocals) was born in South London, United Kingdom on the 13th November 1983 and grew up in Hoddesdon, a town in South Hertfordshire. His passion for music started at a young age, playing music regularly with his father on the guitar and learning how to sing at school. At the age of fourteen James began writing music in a range of styles whilst learning to play drums, synthesisers and gaining skills in recording and mixing his own songs. He particularly took an interest in modern progressive and hard rock, (for example: Tool, A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains) eventually leading him to fuse these influences to form the band Cassini with musicians Simon Lascelles and Mark Coleman.
(source: http://www.fluteofshame.com andhttp://www.kooparponen.fi/

Recorded with Nokia 808. More Nokia 808 PureView Music Concert recordings: http://nokia808recordings.blogspot.fi/
byTainasVideo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7vVy1GYqY

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

HTC One with Nokia's HAAC mics vs. Samsung S3 with nonHAAC mics - Audio recording comparison

HTC One has inside illegally Nokia's HAAC (High Amplitude Audio Capture) microphones which they must change to nonHAAC mics, because Nokia has been granted 22th April, 2013 a preliminary injunction by the Amsterdam district court concerning the technology HTC used in its current flagship HTC One. HAAC microphone technology is the result of several years research and development of Nokia. So the microphone manufacturer STMicroelectronics (company registered in Amsterdam) can't sell HAAC microphones to other parties than Nokia anymore, until februari 2014 that is. For every microphone it will sell to HTC or other parties, it has to pay a fine of €50.000, with a maximum of one million euro. 

Here is a audio comparison Nokia's HAAC microphones of HTC One vs nonHAAC microphones of Samsung Galaxy SIII.
byMaik Reifschneider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaL87kEqZ4Y

Tuesday, April 23, 2013