Mobile Phone Videos

vonLayzonfon

Dreadful, aren't they?  Especially when viewed on a mobile phone.  At best they're scratchy and thin, at worst they're distorted beyond recognition, or they can even make your performance sound out of tune.

So what do you do?  Never post any video clips to social media (a policy which is popular with the rest of my band), or just accept they're not a particularly faithful reproduction of the live experience and slap up the least painful ones you can find?

In the past I have spent time tickling up the audio track as best I can, but it's time consuming and I can't help feeling it's not worth the bother.

Do you think people accept them for what they are, or does posting poor quality mobile phone video clips just give you bad publicity?

Lestratcaster

Hate it when you got audience members singing along out of tune or clapping out of time too.

Danny1969

I tend to use about 12% audio from the phone and the rest from the mixing desk. Using 100% desk audio sounds too sterile, the small amount of compressed phone audio adds a bit of realism I think. The video is all phone and generally taken by audience members and which I then nick on Facebook

Here's a typical example, video nicked from someone who posted it on FB, I changed the URL to M prefix which enables me to download it then load it in video pad along with the quality audio from the desk and you get something that sounds a bit better than a typical phone vid


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lK-6wiCUws&t=27s


Another example 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78V-cDxCZ4I

We have got a fair few wedding gigs from videos posted on Youtube ....everybody wants to look a band up in this day and age so you kind of need something

vonLayzonfon

Lestratcaster said:

Hate it when you got audience members singing along out of tune or clapping out of time too.

Yeah. I recorded my step daughter doing an acoustic set a while back and some pillock was tapping the table and singing along...erm...that would be me, then. 
At least I was on time and in tune (and mostly on the left, so a mono mix sorted it). 

vonLayzonfon

Danny1969 said:

I tend to use about 12% audio from the phone and the rest from the mixing desk. Using 100% desk audio sounds too sterile, the small amount of compressed phone audio adds a bit of realism I think. The video is all phone and generally taken by audience members and which I then nick on Facebook

Here's a typical example, video nicked from someone who posted it on FB, I changed the URL to M prefix which enables me to download it then load it in video pad along with the quality audio from the desk and you get something that sounds a bit better than a typical phone vid


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lK-6wiCUws&t=27s


Another example 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78V-cDxCZ4I

We have got a fair few wedding gigs from videos posted on Youtube ....everybody wants to look a band up in this day and age so you kind of need something

I've been thinking of looking into recording the desk but the drums might be an issue as they're not mic'ed at all. 

munckee

I bought an external microphone for my iphone, only a basic one, £60, I think its an improvement over the phone mic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BtdFpw9-Y