The Best Audio Recording App For Your Android Smartphone And iPhone [UPDATED July 2022] - How To Use Dolby On: Record Audio & Video

Many times we are required to record quick audio for some work or need to do a basic voice-over for our college or office presentations. Content creators have to deal with audio-visual files each and every day to keep up with their work.

In all these situations, good and crisp audio is always necessary to take our work to the next level. While working on audio and video files, many editors have to deal with the bad sound quality of the basic mobile phone recordings which are done using the normal inbuilt microphone on the phone. Though the microphones on newer mobile phones are of great quality, they still lack some low or lower mid frequencies while delivering high-quality crisp audio for our recordings.

Here comes the role of third-party apps like Dolby On to deliver us what we need the most, a good quality sound recording. As the name suggests, Dolby On works on making our Audio and Video files sound and look great. This app is developed by Dolby Industries Inc. and the recording app is available for both Android and iOS devices. 

With over 4.1 stars and 4.8 stars on the Google Play Store and The Apple App Store respectively, Dolby On: Record Audio & Video app emerges as one of the most popular audio and video recording apps available in the market. Dolby On uses Dolby's cutting-edge audio technology to clean and process the audio mix and provide us with the best-sounding audio recording. This app stands out from other audio recording apps as this one also comes with the feature of live streaming directly from smartphones to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook that to in lossless audio formats.

Dolby On provides you with these features :

• Dolby's state-of-the-art sound equalizer and dynamic EQ.
• Spatial Audio 
• Diverse export options including the lossless WAV audio format.
• Loudness Normalization using advanced techniques like de-essing.
• inbuilt fade-in and fade-out options for smooth intro and outro of the audio recording.

As sound is processed differently on every social media platform whether it is Youtube or Spotify, Dolby On assures proper and equal loudness across all platforms. The inbuilt audio editor is helpful to trim the audio recordings for any abrupt pauses in between the audio recordings.

To record audio using Dolby On, follow these simple steps.

1. Download the Dolby On: Record Audio & Video app from the Play Store or App Store.
2. Set up your app by signing in using any of your social media accounts or create a new account using the signup option.
3. Once the app is set up, simply click on the record button to start recording.
4. Make sure to wait for 3 seconds at the start of the recording. This helps Dolby On to check for any background noises and the app tries to reduce it in the post-processing of the audio mix.
5. After the recording is over, rename the track name.
6. Click on the track to open the audio player. Here, you will find diverse options in the tools section.
7. One can select the style of recording. The Dolby On signature curve styles includes Standard, Natural, Thump, Amped, Lyric and deep sound presets to make our audio recording sound appropriate to the desired situation where the audio needs to be used.
8. Noise reduction levels range from 0 to 10 where 0 level provides Gentle and 10 level provides noise Strong noise reduction.
9. The Tone tool provides the option to change the Treble, Mids, and Bass levels of our audio recording and solves the issue of dull and flat sound.
10. The Boost tool provides the choice to increase or decrease the overall audio levels of our audio recording. It comes with -20 to +20 levels with -20 being the light boost and +20 being the highest boost level for the recorded audio.
11. The trim tool is designed with so much detail that it provides the opportunity to trim the start and end of the audio segment up to the accuracy of milliseconds as well. 

Using this method, it's honestly a piece of cake to get high-quality audio using our smartphone microphones. Dolby On also provides the option of recording the audio through an external microphone.

To shoot high-quality videos using the Dolby On video recorder, follow these simple steps.

1. Click the video icon on the Dolby On app to switch to the video recording mode.
2. Make sure to place the mobile camera on a smooth surface.
3. Start recording the video.
4. Even if the external microphone is being used for audio recording, Dolby On will receive the audio from it and record the voice in lossless audio format.
5. To further edit the audio, the tools mentioned in the earlier segment can be used.

To live stream using the Dolby On audio and video recording app, follow these steps.

1. Select the live stream option on the app.
2. Select the platform you want to stream to (Eg. Facebook, Twitch, YouTube). You can even use a custom URL to stream to a particular website or social media site
3. After selecting the streaming site, Give the necessary permissions to access the channel name, streaming details, etc.
4. Once the stream is ready to go live, click on sound check and do a quick test of audio levels and background noise. The background noise detected during the countdown will be considered unwanted noise and will be removed during the live stream.
5. Select stream options and put the required title and description for the live stream and the sharing options (Public, Private, Unlisted, etc).
6. Now click Go Live to start the live stream.
7. Comments, reactions and other feedback can be obtained through the regular PC, laptop or mobile setup as well.
8. once the stream is over, click End stream to stop the live stream.

Using this method, it is effortless to live stream directly from our smartphone setup.

Some disadvantages we found with this app.

• Even though the audio levels for the first person are usually good, when multiple people are speaking, it tends to cut the voice which is not at the forefront by assuming it as background noise.
• YouTube live stream is not supported sometimes. You have to manually go to the YouTube dashboard every time you have to live stream to allow the necessary permissions.

F.A.Q.

1) Is this app available for Windows ?

No, this app is only available for mobile devices through platforms like Google Play Store and the App Store.

2) Can this app replace my professional recording setup ?

Though this app is a good alternative to regular smartphone audio recordings, in no way it can completely replace a full-fledged sound recording setup.

Conclusion

While comparing it with other audio recording apps, we found this one to be the most efficient, lightweight, fast to load and universal app to record voice. So, do give it try and let us know in the comments how it helped you achieve your sound goals.

To know more about this topic, make sure to watch this - Record your voice and video professionally on your phone (Without any external microphone) | Dolby On Full Tutorial

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