Breakthrough

Today a breakthrough happened: After several tries I found a practical solution to record my little Who-project properly. The sound of the AKG C-1000 was too thin and harsh. At last I placed my cheap Ribbon mic in a slight angle between me and the foot-percussion. One side of the mic points to my head and the other side towards the percussion. The result is very warm and old-fashioned sounding. I like it and will go further this way.

Recording problems II

Meanwhile I have found a way to go: After some experimentations I think, that the best position to record is close to the singer with a cardioid microphone pointing directly to my mouth. At all other positions the vocals are overpowered by the drums. I will try first the cardioid mic (AKG C-1000) and as second choice a bi-directional ribbon mic.
Approximately I will record in Mono to make it not too complicated.
Using an adapter I could set the camera and the mic on one stand, but I want to record the video from another position, so I have to use two stands.
I have found a free software to convert the mts.-files of my Panasonic. With handbrake you can easily convert to mp4 and you can also remove the audio-part of the video-file.
At last I will attach the audio-recording to the video using imovie.

I hope that this will become a big improvement of my recordings.

Recording problems

After I have recorded now four songs I am still not happy with the sound of the videos. It's not a wonder, because I used just the internal mics of my digital cam, a Panasonic DCM-TZ10. While the guitar and percussion sound acceptable, the vocals are sounding very weak, maybe because the cam was placed in front. I have experimented with other angles, but the results are all not convincing. So now I will try to record the audio with a good microphone using my Boss BR-600 and at the same time the video with the Panasonic. After that I will try to combine audio and video. It sounds not so hard, but I have made bad experiences, when I tried to work on mts-files. Probably I will need additional software.
If there is still time I will try it today ...

Eyesight to the blind (The hawker) from "Tommy"

"Overture" from Tommy by The Who/ Pete Townshend

Shakin' all over by Johnny Kidd and the pirates

Amazing journey by The Who