The trial was serious and there was a videocam recording audio / video from a tripod plus the computer was capturing the audio from the mixer. The reason is the latter is always cleaner than the camera can deliver. If the trial had any future beyond validation, it might be worthwhile to use the audio from the camera for room ambience when used in combination with the mixer audio track.
The recording ran for fifteen minutes and the audio / video did not get out of sync. The approach was different in setting the base track from the video and then adding the standalone audio from the mixer. Sync would be lost before ten minutes doing it the other way around and eventually must find which knobs to twist to prevent that. Meanwhile, this works.
There needs to be work on balancing the vocal. I'm not dogging it but the result isn't captured very well. The mike is ultra-hot and it may be better to back off with that so I can shout at it. Doing that will have some physical limitations but that will get whatever trials are necessary to get that balance down. Working up the stones to sing something is highly pointless if you can't make out the words. So ... fix that.
Somehow the voice changed on the synth and I think I did that by putting the iPad on top of it. The random voice turned out to be a harmonica which was way past useless. That blew it for trying to do any kind of a unison with the keyboard and the guitar but that's only a problem for the final recording so it behooves me to find a better way.
All in all, a satisfying test. There's an accomplishment buzz and that's balanced by a recording never being as good as you hope it can be. You've got to live with the last part but that's alright, it's all part of it.
The Mystery Lady could so murder this song. This one I have to do myself but I can hear her singing it and, whew, sit down guitar guy, just listen to this.
Yes, this was a dodge to avoid picking up the soda cans in the studio. It did not work for that, tho.
The recording ran for fifteen minutes and the audio / video did not get out of sync. The approach was different in setting the base track from the video and then adding the standalone audio from the mixer. Sync would be lost before ten minutes doing it the other way around and eventually must find which knobs to twist to prevent that. Meanwhile, this works.
There needs to be work on balancing the vocal. I'm not dogging it but the result isn't captured very well. The mike is ultra-hot and it may be better to back off with that so I can shout at it. Doing that will have some physical limitations but that will get whatever trials are necessary to get that balance down. Working up the stones to sing something is highly pointless if you can't make out the words. So ... fix that.
Somehow the voice changed on the synth and I think I did that by putting the iPad on top of it. The random voice turned out to be a harmonica which was way past useless. That blew it for trying to do any kind of a unison with the keyboard and the guitar but that's only a problem for the final recording so it behooves me to find a better way.
All in all, a satisfying test. There's an accomplishment buzz and that's balanced by a recording never being as good as you hope it can be. You've got to live with the last part but that's alright, it's all part of it.
The Mystery Lady could so murder this song. This one I have to do myself but I can hear her singing it and, whew, sit down guitar guy, just listen to this.
Yes, this was a dodge to avoid picking up the soda cans in the studio. It did not work for that, tho.
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