Uploading to YouTube--sound quality loss?

[cassius987]

I am trying to make some demo videos of a couple of basses and it's proving hard. I can't get the sound qualtiy to jive with what I'm hearing on my laptop before uploading. Is there a secret compression event going on when you upload?

Here's the first quick attempt as a test, I used a small file size (2 MB).

test video 1 - YouTube

Don't even ask me about the weird "seizure" effect at the end. Then I noticed the sound was thin so I uploaded this higher quality version:

test 2 hq - YouTube

Somehow, it's only "hearing" my internal mic now! What the eff...

Any help recordings experts?

[OldDog52]

Listening to the first video on good headphones, it sounds pretty good to me. The second video seems to have been deleted.

YouTube re-encodes just about everything. There have been serious YT audio quality issues in the past, but these days they're doing a pretty good job. I don't hear any problem with your video. *shrug*