Demo video, tonal advice & help!

Myrddin

Guys I'm looking for some input here

Below is the roughest youtube video you'll ever see/hear, but I had to start somewhere. It's done via a digital camera & its inbuilt mic - with a backing track behind it (volume far too low - recording technique needs work). The errors didn't matter to me as it's only a technical excersise for now.

What I need help with is where to progress from a digital camera The tone of the guitar is mostly lost recording this way (as is the complete range of sound ), so I'm looking for a way to loose the least amount of tone as possible. I'd rather not go direct from the amp to pc, but instead use a mic (as the speaker in the amp is lending it's voice too).

I've heard of the m-adudio usb thingy, would that be recommended? Just something basic, that I can use my XLR mic to my pc and keep it as lossless as possible. I'd appreciate any input

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkC3xIUEWI

Alanstrainor

REVERBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!

Anyway, I got one of these yonks ago Thomann, it's very cheaply made, but it still works. And i bought this sennheiser mic. For recording my videos on youtube.

Clean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jHGK0zg_I

Very slight bit of overdrive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu9ZcHkySM

Myrddin

Ah Alanstrainor...with skills like that you shouldn't be giving me the time of day man Your very skilled, bonified guitar guitar fingers too!

Anyhow, with regards to what your hearing in the room & whats recorded and played back, do you think they're a close match? I know it will never be entirely accurate, but that sounds very very well to me.

Edit - the reverb is actually somehow not as prominent normally, the good old digital cam is mushing it all together.

Myrddin

I went ahead and ordered that little xlr-usb thingy from Thomann, for the price it seems very reasonable. And without a doubt the recording quality will be an improvement from the muck above

I'll record again when it lands, hopefully I'm happy with the result. What do you use for video recording Alanstrainor? Then I'll face the challenge of somehow mixing a backing track, a video stream & my audio recording all together...sounds painful :pac:

darrenw5094

EnterNow wrote: »

I went ahead and ordered that little xlr-usb thingy from Thomann, for the price it seems very reasonable. And without a doubt the recording quality will be an improvement from the muck above

I'll record again when it lands, hopefully I'm happy with the result. What do you use for video recording Alanstrainor? Then I'll face the challenge of somehow mixing a backing track, a video stream & my audio recording all together...sounds painful :pac:

Interesting to hear the difference between the two.