Good Quality Youtube Posts With Cheep Kit. OK - not super cheep but not blowing a £1000+ on a super camcorder either.
My aim has been to get up to 720p with good clear sound and an easy to watch video quality for frequent and informative youtube posts. This proved to be more challenging than I had expected. Low cost super handy video microphone trick. Have you ever wanted to record one thing whilst having a directional mike pointing in a different direction?
I need this for recording the screen whilst doing voice over. Here is a super low cost but effective trick to doing this. This is also a big experiment for me because it is the first bog post completely created from my Sony S1 tablet. I found that dolphin browser is able to cope with the blogger interface where the default android browser is not. Back to the trick: What I needed was a highly directional microphone which is very small, will just plug into the Panasonic camcorder and could be easily and stabilly pointed at me when the camera was pointed away. How I Shoot Review Videos. I started trying to shoot reviews a few months ago.
Now I think I am just starting to get the hang of it. Here is the settup I use and some tricks. Shotgun, cardioid, omni - not death but microphones. AKG 702 - First Impressions. Well - I did it, I bought my dream pair of cans.
OK, there are better cans out there (for another digit on the price) but these are like having your ears reborn. 50 Hour Review. After 50 hours of burn in - just how good are the 702s?
Little Dot MkIII Valve/Tube Headphone Amp. The headphone amplifier does matter.
It might seem daft - but a chain is only as good as the weakest link. With the recent purchase of my AKG K702 reference headphones the limitations of the headphone amplifier I was using became apparent. AKG New And Old. Behringer UltraFex Pro EX3200 - Give Life To MP3s. This cheep, discontinued piece of kit is by far the my most loved processor.
MP3s aren't great. The compression takes life out of sound. Reverberation For Spatial Widening. "What an odd little machine " the Etek Opera, nothing special apart from an excessively realistic reverberator.
I found - by accident - this makes it really good for spatial widening of headphone listening! So what is reverberation and how can it help? The idea of reverb' comes from the way sound behaves in a closed space. It does not produce a simple echo but many echoes which interfere with one another and then from their own echoes. However, the early technologies for achieving this effect were very far from a realistic modelling of such echo effects.
These electron-mechanical systems made some amazing sounds, but were not very realistic. The very act of separating recording into tracks in this way forces one to remove natural reverberation from the recording because reverberated sound is bound to be a mixture of all the instruments and different sounds from each instrument (including singers as instruments here). All of which takes me back to the Opera. Behringer SX3040 Review. Equal And Just - Temperament Demonstrated. "All people are born equal and deserve fair and just treatment.
" Off The Chart Epic Sound. YES!
Been struggling for some time. IKey M3 Review. How To Record Acoustic Guitar At Home. It is all very well talking about recording with baffles, expensive software and a full 'home studio'.
How can you lay down a good acoustic guitar recording in a normal home? Having given this a load of thought and quite a bit of experiment the technique I found which worked really well is and XY stereo recording using a couple of instrument dynamic microphones. Yes - I did say dynamic. Condensers might be 'better' but are expensive to buy and work with.Do not go buy new cheep dynamics. Get amazing ones second hand for the same money.Do record using a USB sound interface or even better a digital recorder. Using The Internet Archive To Store Podcasts. Nerds Central. VSTHost as ultra-powerful, real time audio processor - FOR FREE! VSTHost is free and lets you put together amazingly complex real time audio processing chains which replace hundreds or thousands of pound (dollars?)
VST & DirectX Plugins. Distant And Ancient - Wonderful Effects With A Behringer Virtualizer. Rs-met.com. Strobe Tuning Instruments For Free WIth Audacity. In this post I will be showing how to tune musical instruments using audio processing. It was my great pleasure to work on this with my brother-in-law Nick Pope, who is a tremendously skilled instrument builder. Whilst tuning string instruments like guitars is fairly simple using an electronic tuner, there are some significant limitations to this technique. The basic one being that a normal electronic tuner will only 'pick up' a sustained note. During the constructions of a musical instrument, there is a requirement to tune the individual components (sounding board etc). A normal electronic tuner will not achieve this because the tone produced by these components is not sustained.
The perfect example is the sounding board of a guitar or octave mandolin. Traditionally complex and dedicated piece of electronic wizardry called a 'strobe tuner' would be used. We were using the following piece of software: Audacity 1.2.6 2) Make sure the sound source is set to microphone (as shown). VST plugins [slim slow slider presents] Audacity: Creating Drums From First Principles. Ambition realised - direct podcast recording without post processing. The more podcast recording I did the more I noticed how the post processing sapped creativity.
But recording directly at a quality good enough to publish, creativity can be maximized. I have finally achieved my aim with a fairly good hardware signal processing chain. The side benefit is that it works backward (with the help of a 300watt PA amp) to make for an amazing music room! [In the picture: front - netbook, left and right AKG D190s, box with '124' on it is the Etek, above that the gate then the Phonic Optimizer (with the rows of red and green lights as it is working hard on some dub-step), above that the equalizer and Behringer effect unit, on the right bottom is a psycho-acoustic processor and on top of that the power amp.
The Behringer C3 condenser mike is above this image on the stand which is partly in the extreme left of the image.] Kill Echo In Audio Recording Without Rebuilding You Room! I am big into recording podcasts. A large amount of what I do has, for logistical reasons, to be done outside of a sound damped environment. Here is a trick to substantially reduce echo in voice recordings. It does not require sound blankets, egg boxes or old mattresses! The idea comes from stereo recording. Podcasts - The Easy Way To Empower Internal Organisation Communications. Embrace Podcasts As The New Approach To Spreading Knowledge: Writing documents and 'company communications statements' which no one will read and are as dry as the Atacama is far to much like hard work and does not produce the cohesive organisational feel that is needed to flourish in the dynamic and challenging 21st century world.
De-essing: What Is It And How To Do It By Hand (audacity) De-essing is quite important to make speech singing sound good. Some people and some microphones pick up the sibilance of the 's' sound in an unnatural sounding way. Voice Filtering With Audacity. Behringer C-3 Large Diaphragm Capacitor Microphone - First Impressions. November 2010. AKG D190E Review. I was lucky enough to pick up a pair of beautifully maintained AKG D190E vintage microphones the other day. These are simply a work of art and also produce the most pleasing rounded sound of any of my dynamic mikes. AKG D900 Review - Initial Thoughts.