Reduced sound quality in sound recording

[PopeUnleashed]

I have a Z1 and the camera films with great sound quality but the sound recorder sounds horrible, how can I solve this?

Thank you for helping

[PopeUnleashed]

I experience a slight delay when recording sounds. This results in not being able to use apps like Loopmash effectively because the tracks become off beat. Is there a way to solve this or is it a hardware fault?

Thank you for helping

[Uliwooly]

have you tested other apps? I don't know if this settings will apply to sound recording 

settings > call settings > microphone noise suppression 

[PopeUnleashed]

Yes, the same reduction of sound quality applies to apps such as LoopMash. Changing noise suppression didn't help. The delay also still persists.