How's the audio recording?

I'm a journalist, so the quality of audio recording is really important to me. I need to be able to hear indivuals speaking, even if they're in a relatively noisy environment. I've had an iPhone for about a year now, which records audio very well. I'm interested to jump back into Android and the OP3 seems like an all-around great phone, but I did hear that audio in video recordings is pretty bad.

Is this something that has been fixed? Is it an issue that only impacts the audio in video recordings? Also, if you have an anecdotal comparison to an iPhone or HTC, that would be amazing.

Thanks!