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09-22-2007, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ST Pete Florida | | | We Suck
Well after almost a year of playing in this garage band. My wife comes over and shoots a video. Now I know it wasn't the best of our nights due to the fact we havent all played in a couple weeks. But this video sounded awful. I really hope its the acoustics and the way the equipment is laid out in the garage. When we're playing I can usually tell when things aren't quite right. But all three songs she recorded really sucked. I may have to rethink this whole thing. |
09-22-2007, 10:54 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Montreal,Canada | | | good luck |
09-22-2007, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saratoga, CA | | Post it so we can laugh at with you. 
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09-22-2007, 11:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | Or use it as a learning tool. What sucked? Can you do things better?
Maybe you should start recording all your practices? |
09-22-2007, 11:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | Sometimes we're our worst critics. What you may think sucks may be viewed a week from now as avant garde!
Or you may just really suck! 
Of course I'm kidding. |
09-22-2007, 11:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | And sometimes the condenser in the video cams are pretty crappy also! |
09-22-2007, 11:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | Were you allowing the video cam to pick up the audio?
Most of those things have a hugely crappy compressor built in. Next time, do a few room mics to a board and compressor and run a line audio into the camera. See if it makes difference, I have never heard a camcorder do a good job. Even if you have to Radio Shack it up to get some adapters and use a footpedal compressor it will make a world of difference.
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09-22-2007, 11:51 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | no video. No proof. |
09-22-2007, 01:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | I have 20 years' experience as a videographer, and I wouldn't judge ANY audio by what a camcorder captures. They're made to capture video and sound is only incidental. You absolutely CANNOT judge music by what is captured by any camcorder. I wouldn't even judge it by a $1500 mike on a $50,000 professional digital camera. If you want to evaluate audio, capture it with quality equipment - run by someone who knows how - in an acoustic environment that is appropriate for musical recording - and then make a judgment. And don't forget that you probably practice in a site where the acoustics stink for recording. That camcorder tape is meaningless. |
09-23-2007, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by kevbassman  And sometimes the condenser in the video cams are pretty crappy also! | +1 |
09-23-2007, 05:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Austin TX | | | Pilgrim said: I have 20 years' experience as a videographer, and I wouldn't judge ANY audio by what a camcorder captures. They're made to capture video and sound is only incidental.
Hanson says: Now if you LOOKED bad, that's a different story!!
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09-23-2007, 01:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | OK so, where's the vids? You said it sucked and it better suck.
I could use a boost right about now.
Fujifilm digital cameras have an amazing ability to record loud live music well. For about $150 and the size of a pack of smokes. |
09-23-2007, 05:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin' Hanson Hanson says: Now if you LOOKED bad, that's a different story!! | But I'll bet they look marrrrrrrrvellllous!  |
09-23-2007, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ST Pete Florida | | | Well thanks for the positive feed back every one. as for posting the video...I am an idiot as to how this site works for that. But I think I will take this all as a "learning tool" and work on the things that I know were off regardless of whether it was from crappy acoustics or a cheap camcorder
Thanks again |
09-23-2007, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Arlington Heights, IL | | | You could post on YouTube and link to it . . .
Of course that'd show it off to everyone else, buuuut . . .
My gf's small Sony digital takes surprisingly decent audio. |
09-24-2007, 03:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada | | YouTube is your friend 
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09-24-2007, 04:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ST Pete Florida | | | If I did that my band friends may get upset with me and then you tube would be my only friend
Hey look I'm laughing about it now |
09-24-2007, 05:18 PM
| | Registered User | | | | What? you're not going to post the suck?????
I hate to do this but.... I double dog dare you!
It's either that or stick your tongue on a frozen flag pole. |
09-24-2007, 05:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ennui, IN USA | | I call custard!
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09-28-2007, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ST Pete Florida | | | Well tonight is band night. So let's see where it goes from here. I will see if tomorrows videos turn out better. I'm gonna ask the keyboardist to bring his MP3 recorder to see if the sound is any better... than I can overdub or somethin. If I get any thing thats worth posting I will tell you wheret ofind it on youtube. Be it worth posting because its good or so awful it turns out to be my farewell cruel music world letter. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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