Reduced sound quality in sound recording

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

have you tested other apps? I don't know if this settings will apply to sound recording 
settings > call settings > microphone noise suppression 
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