Eh up.
I'm toying with the idea of doing some gear demos, because Youtube clearly needs more of this ;-)
Nah, just for fun really.
Anyone do this and have any learning points to share?
Staring at the beginning of the chain, my preference would be to capture room sound rather than close mic - I've seen more demos where the sound left me cold that were close mic'ed than was the car for room recordings.
That being the aim, what's a decent mic to look for? One of these Blue USB things or something else?
Something as simple as the newish Sonicport with miss built in, or not enough low end response on something like that?
The benefit of an option like that would be I don't need a separate interface of course.
If that's likely to be shit, any suggested interfaces? I have a PC and a MacBook Pro - I'd lean toward being able to use the Macbook, but that's not essential.
Video-wise I'd probably use an iPhone on a mount.
Anyway, be keen to hear others' setups and experiences.
Tim
Red ones are better.
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One clip is here (apologies, it's an ad, mods please feel free to delete, etc)
As PolarityMan says, acoustic noise can be an issue. One clip was of the 0.3W amp cleanish and you can hear the strings being played, especially if you listen on headphones. The recording approach I used previously was a Palmer speaker emulator (zero room sound), but just for making audio clips. I was very happy with the sound captured by the Q3HD's mics. There's also a line in, so I could use the Palmer with the Q3.
Might try that next. The reason I want tostick with the Q3 is that I want to avoid any latency/sync issues, so I favour getting the Q3 to do all of the audio and video recording work, and then editing on PC. (FWIW, I was amazed how long it took me to edit/annotate - even this little clip.)
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