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On the difference between microphones…

A short update about this interesting video shared by @EasycapExpertti‘s on his excellent blog Nokia808Recordings. It’s a painful example of what the microphone Nokia developped is capable of in HTC’s One – compared to a non high-quality microphone as found in Samsung’s Galaxy S3 (and absolutely not able to handle high volumes). So it’s between

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Venus (Shocking Blue), Nokia 808 PureView

You probably do know the song, but you don’t know it’s of Dutch origin. Venus by Shocking Blue (original videoclip here) was a giant hit in 1969 and once again in 1986 after Bananarama covered it. Sung by the late Mariska Veres (who died of cancer in 2006) Venus probably is one of the most succesful

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My best concert recording with the Nokia 808

Yesterday evening, the mrs. and me visited a concert of a local celebrity in the Netherlands, a female singer who ended second in the TV contest The Voice Of Holland. Meanwhile, it looks like she has more success than the actual winner has since then, but I didn’t follow the contest that close to be

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Mumford and Sons in Rich Recording. Again.

It’s not the first time to feature a Mumford and Sons recording here at the PureViewClub. The first one was a recording made close to the stage on the Dutch festival Pinkpop last year. On March 30 this year, the group visited the huge Ziggodome in Amsterdam, and Corina Maaswinkel brought the Nokia 808 PureView

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Nokia 808 PureView captures Asaf Avidan

You may never have heard of the Israeli singer/songwriter Asaf Avidan, but he had a world hit with One day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix). Recently he gave a concert in Einhoven in the Netherlands, and Jurgen Thysmans attended it. Jurgen is my friend from Belgium, in fact he’s the first human being I personally know to

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Great stereo Rich Recording on the Nokia 808!

This music video was shot by @chanimehro, my PureView friend from Mumbai.  First I thought it would have been more fun to watch when she would have walked around the musicians – but that would have changed the stereo as well, and – as she explained – it would have distracted the audience as well. That’s

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