I like to use my sopranino when my brother and two sister’s are playing their violins. It’s the only recorder which I can hear while playing with them. No matter how loud they play, even if they throw a piano in, I can still here it rising above the chaos. I don’t think the neighbors have complained yet…lol.
As for Audacity, I use a computer mic,which as you can imagine doesn’t sound very good. You can record something alongside an earlier recording, then save it as an MP3. But unless you use earphones you get a double of the first part, which makes one part sound too loud and solid, if ya’ know what I mean…I’m planning on getting a good mic soon, then I’ll post some stuff on here.
Kypfer is right about Audacity, it’s strictly for sound. I don’t have a good camera at the moment so I’m reduced to using Audacity. The only camera I have right now is a really old digital camera that barely works and doesn’t even take sound vids!
I don’t have much patience for computers and technology though. Will I be challenged, trying to use it?
Wonder if it’s easier just to get a Sony handcam or something that I can just plug in the datacard and upload straight away…but is the sound quality up to it?
I like to use my sopranino when my brother and two sister’s are playing their violins. It’s the only recorder which I can hear while playing with them. No matter how loud they play, even if they throw a piano in, I can still here it rising above the chaos. I don’t think the neighbors have complained yet…lol.
That’s quite a challenge!
Nothing against violinists - I love violins … but anyone less than a Grade 8 violinist sounds like torture to me. I couldn’t play anything with that kind of racket going on! There are some instruments which are just really painful to listen to whilst the player practices!
I don’t have much patience for computers and technology though. Will I be challenged, trying to use it?
VirtualDub is no more difficult to use than Audacity. VirtualDub will incorporate a new audio track into an existing video … how well it synchronises is entirely up to you. You’ll need to play the new track EXACTLY like the original … if you’re that good, or are used to using a metronome, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem, but the odd variation here or there, or slightest variation in speed, will become very apparent when watching the dubbed movie … fingers moving before or after the note etc, especially towards the end, when any slight speed differences will have had time to accumulate.
The sound quality on many modern cameras can be suprisingly good, provided you don’t overload the microphone by playing too close! A few practice runs will soon establish a reasonably optimal distance to work from.
Is it possible to record on 8mm video and upload onto computer
… yes, if the camera has an appropriate output, most likely would be FireWire, for which you’ll need a FireWire socket on the computer, else you can take the analogue video & audio outputs from the camera and play them into a TV or video-capture card in the computer.
This is awful. I don’t have one on my current computer, and the other ones I have all seem to be dead.
I’ll have to figure out what outputs I have on the Sony 8mm cam when I find it. I hope it’s not too much bother. Then I’ll upload some images of the recorder in action
