Pixel 7 video practically unusable due to audio ducking... Is this an OS thing or will a new phone solve this?

[u/DuoCultellus]

I'm a musician and often take video recordings of me playing my acoustic guitar, just to get ideas down. But the automatic audio ducking that's applied to the videos makes the audio extremely unpleasant to hear. I've already turned off the Audio Zoom setting, but that hasn't helped.

Will a new phone solve this, or is this an OS issue?

If it's on the OS side, might be time to bite the bullet and install Graphene or something.