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  • 30-12-2010 06:08PM
    #1
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭


    Guys I'm looking for some input here :o

    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 :o 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


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #3
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Ah Alanstrainor...with skills like that you shouldn't be giving me the time of day man :p 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.


  • #4
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭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 :o

    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:


  • #5
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭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 :o

    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.


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