I am going to be recording the show i am going to tonight. Ive tried before and everytime the video is perfect but the audio quality is very distorted and you cannot tell what the band is saying nor hear the instruments. Any advice other than professional equiptment? I am working with a canon powershot A530 and a DV520T flash camcorder. Thanks
2007-10-04 05:58:57 · 5 answers · asked by holdinstix21 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Camcorders
The audio is too loud. If possible, lower the levels on your camcorder, or as a cheap and low quality fix, you could either move very far away from the action, but limiting your video, or use something to muffle the mic. The second option, if there is enough muffling, will reduce the distortions, but also reduce your quality and treble ranges. To counter this, you could always increase treble when editing, but other than getting another camera with manual audio controls, you're out of luck. Hopefully this helped a bit.
2007-10-04 10:43:20 · answer #1 · answered by evilgenius4930 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. In theory it should since there is a lot more that you can control about a studio setting than you can in a concert setting. However, this is why music is an art rather than a science. While studio recordings, should, in general be better than live ones, there is something magical about live music that often makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts. And when this is captured from a live performance, IMO, there is nothing more beautiful. But you do have to take the bad with the good which is why you sometimes see / hear musicians quite obviously miss notes, be out of tune, off of the rhythm. Etc.
2016-05-20 23:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really get a huge difference on audio quality with an external Microphone. Sold at Bestbuy, circuit city etc... I have one for my Sony Camcorder. Before it, everything seemed dull and distorted. After, it seemed like everything was much improved. It is only around 25 bucks... hope that helps
2007-10-04 06:10:22 · answer #3 · answered by CJ S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect that these two devices compress the audio. miniDV has the same problem if run in the 12 bit atrac mode. if that is the case, using another mic won't help. atrac type compression can not handle live performances where the volume level changes dramatically.
2007-10-04 08:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-10-04 07:55:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋