A Unique Youtube Setup

[Rick Shepherd]

I wanted to share this setup for recording video and audio. I used a Sigma fp camera with a Zoom F3, along with a pair of Gefell M300's. I sat about 5-6 feet away from the camera and mics, which are mounted to the camera cage with the Zoom F3. The Zoom F3 output goes into the camera mic input. Seems to work pretty well.



Best Regards!

[gfirob]

Lovely playing. Regarding the video, nice composition, nice background, but your foreground lighting is too flat and the exposure is too low. The shot should be about the foreground, so more care in the lighting on you is advised. Much nicer video than most though, congratulations.

[Rick Shepherd]

Originally Posted by gfirob

Lovely playing. Regarding the video, nice composition, nice background, but your foreground lighting is too flat and the exposure is too low. The shot should be about the foreground, so more care in the lighting on you is advised. Much nicer video than most though, congratulations.

I agree!

BTW, I do prefer to record better audio and sync it up.

Thanks!

[Rudy4]

Nice job overall, Rick.

Is your methodology to try to avoid separately syncing your audio and video?

[Rick Shepherd]

Originally Posted by Rudy4

Nice job overall, Rick.

Is your methodology to try to avoid separately syncing your audio and video?

Yes, but then I sacrifice sound quality.

[keith.rogers]

Why so distant from the mics when you're feeding that to the camera? You can get them closer and still keep them out of frame, if that's really critical. It will sound better.

And, yeah, video is all about lighting (ok, and framing).

[Sasquatchian]

My first impression was that visually the video was pretty flat and too dark, but since video is not color managed generally, it might look fine on your screen on not on my calibrated monitors. That tonal correction is a quick fix in most video editor applications - DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, or even iMovie and you could easily snap that up and by adding contrast it would also add saturation at the same time.

I'm in agreement that it might sound better with the microphones closer to the guitar but you'd have to try that out and see if you like it better or not. What I did notice is that your overall volume seems a bit on the low side. When you Control-Click in the YouTube screen and choose the Stats for Nerds option, you see that under the audio section, you're at -9.8db, which means that you're almost 10 decibels below youtube's -14db normalization target, or -23.8 db. You don't have to have solo guitar riding all the way to -14, but splitting the difference might give people on phones or tablets a bit more volume. But overall, the guitar and the playing sound great.

[dnf777]

So help this perennial noob understand. Youre using the F3 not so much as a recorder, but an interface to allow stereo mics to feed into your camera’s mic input?

That was the first question.
2. Are you using the simple headphone out 3.5 jack?
3. Does this capture stereo on your camera’s card? Or does it get combined into a mono track?

I have a Nikon Z-30 Im wanting to capture A+V with nicer mics than the hot-shoe Rode it came with, but not sure how to get an XLR mic into the 3.5 mic in on the camera. (And deliver phantom power). Im going to try the R4 in between, as I think you did.

[Rick Shepherd]

Originally Posted by keith.rogers

Why so distant from the mics when you're feeding that to the camera? You can get them closer and still keep them out of frame, if that's really critical. It will sound better.

And, yeah, video is all about lighting (ok, and framing).

Ya, true, tried something different.

[rick-slo]

The lighting is not an issue IMO. There is plenty of light on you and the guitar. The distance encompasses you and the guitar nicely to see all that is going on.

[Rudy4]

Originally Posted by Rick Shepherd

Yes, but then I sacrifice sound quality.

I posted this topic as one of the many ways to deal with that problem.

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[Rick Shepherd]

This post was kind of on impulse, just messing around. I should have mentioned this initially. I am fully capable of making a much better video and recording. I do appreciate the comments. Sorry for not mentioning this before.

Rick