You are being too kind. I know I usually take hours of recording to get one good take, and this was just what I could bag in one. Don't know whether I'll manage hauling in more material these days. At least this recording was so bad that Youtube's AI did not recognize anything worth flagging as copyrighted. My accordion orchestra uploads (sorry, I have no permission for showing an example) have a hit rate of about 80% of copyright flagging instead.
I just compared the sound in this recording with the frontal recording from the video cam, and it would appear that even the natural frontal balance would be better than what I presented here taken with separate mics. And that's frontal rather than with the treble somewhat towards the audience, an orientation that one would prefer for solo. I probably should rebalance the audio to do my instrument better justice. Mic kind and placement and gain here were all different, so it's not like what one hears in this recording is representative for anything but my sloppy workmanship. Also the bass mic placement and kind here catches a lot more room reverb, so one likely should give the treble mic an artificial boost in that category. I'll reprocess the audio and swap it out: that should be possible without reinvesting the hours needed for AV1 video encoding on my 11-year old laptop.
Already did and edited the link. The video is now exchanged, but description and everything was a copy&paste job, so it looks identical. Exporting just the audio stream from the video editor with "Disable Video" is much faster (for this 5-minute clip, about a minute instead of 5 hours for the video in AV1 encoding), and using ffmpeg to swap the audio streams without reencoding takes less than a second.
Definitely, also because of the particular arrangement. Not that it would incentivize Piazzolla to more pieces, though. And the "but he was motivated for his heirs" excuse is pretty thin as well since Piazzolla did not really actively plan for the Internet. The system is broken in my opinion, particularly with rules like "90 years after the death of the creator". It's rather unlikely that the creative motivation are unconceived descendants.
It was just for internal distribution of a concert cut under orchestra members: we have some that are peculiar about public viewing and I have to go with that. But even unpublished videos get flagged. All of the flagged material (typically arrangements of popular music) was correctly pointing out the original music, though going through Youtube's own monetizing schemes would definitely have left all arrangers out in the cold.
The system is very much tilted towards claimants, particularly large music rights holding companies. Part of the reason is that the money flowing from such organisations to lawmakers is deliberate, while the larger amounts of regular pay flowing from voters to lawmakers cannot be contested.
I more or less did (treble mic is pretty close, cardioid, bass mic is an omni on the floor) and the tracks are pretty well separated (if you check both channels independently, like on a headphone, you'll hear what I mean). I then checked the audio, found that it overemphasized the bass side, and moved the balance control to emphasize it even more. Duh. Fixed now.
Well, I have to work on my face to look desperate rather than infuriated. A combo setting allows for delegating expression to the lead instrument and everybody else staying in background. With something more homogenuous like an accordion ensemble, that does get trickier, I agree.
Hey, I know that. I just have too many other things on my mind. My usual remedy is to just keep the recording equipment running and fill a time slot (cameras being able to operate on power supplies help). After a few days, you resign and stop caring about the regularly occuring blunders. You just have to avoid panicking when miraculously you get through 90% of a piece pretty well and suddenly think "this could be the one".
Yup!!!! You got it. Problem is you always want to record the new stuff, not the old stuff so ingrained in your muscle memory you never falter. I’ve given up on the 100 takes to get one perfect. Look at my recent “St. Anne’s Reel.” One mistake is so glaring to me but most people won’t notice it. It’s different recording and performing. Recording you worry that the mistake will live forever. Either way the only solution, imho, is to learn to keep moving, hoping people listen for the soul of the tune, and get into the flow, rather than the notes that are a key (button) or two off. Looks like you got it down pretty good. Good luck!!!!!!!
The sad thing is that this is the old stuff. I am just not enough of a player to have "you never falter" material. My idea here was to pin down that Oblivion version I should have properly memorized long ago while I work through several others to come up with one of my own. Kölz, the arranger for this one, does pretty good work with the chords and rhythm on the left side. I have a few other variants that use straight chord/bass combinations and partially straight rhythms, and that feels like seriously lacking something. I'll likely round up one of the simpler ones of those in a while (no-one including Piazzolla appears to have anything like that fast intermezzo in the Kölz version, though). I am still rather fuzzy about what can/should sensibly appear in the left hand even though I have the ability to play single notes on my instrument. But I am not yet in the "this is it!" realm.
January this year I finally completed an important part of my setup that is *way* better than before and permits me to stop thinking about other things and I can concentrate just on the take.
Haha... that is what we always hope for, at least I do... LOL!
Well, I still have a 15m audio snake hooked up to the mixer in a separate room, but my laptop is silent enough these days that it is overkill. I used to roll it out from there. The advantage, of course, is that there is a docking station for the laptop and the big mixer, so I can set up everything there in a minute by plunking the laptop in place. I use a headphone extension back: if one wanted to do that right, one would use the backfeed of the snakes and a headphone amp (several small audio interfaces have a standalone mode that would work for that at the cost of a few milliseconds of latency because of digital mixing internally).
I got a KVM extender for that purpose but never actually used it. What I did use is a small USB MIDI controller ("nanoKONTROL 2") from Korg for starting/stopping recording and not much more (one could use it for more, but it hasn't made it into my workflow). I like working with that better than with a mouse. Matter of taste.
Deleting imperfect takes before one has better is bad karma.
Yup, but you won’t remember if that “almost good to go” take was number 37 or 63! Plus the fact that it’s a pain in the neck to cut out the good part of a multi take file. I almost always start recording again every take, which is a pain, but easier to deal with when I get a “good” one. Good luck!Blending audio is easy. Blending video not so much. I've considered running several full-size perspectives in parallel: then you can blend over from one into another occasionally and have a good place to hide actually blending between different takes.“Deleting imperfect takes before one has better is bad karma.”
Actually, there is always time to do many takes, and if none are to my satisfaction, it’s not bad karma to erase the 1TB from what I do not want (this has also never happened, but no biggie for me), and it is very east to identify the “better” takes by just saying so verbally, the audio on the video camera is always on and I comment with things like “check this one, just 1 mistake here” or “use this take”, 99% of the time it is the last take for me anyway, and syncing the audio from the camera to the higher quality audio from the mixer is a 5 second process on a bad day.“Deleting imperfect takes before one has better is bad karma.”
My video editor does it on its own, if necessary very slightly modifying the video speed. It does take longer than 5 seconds on my laptop, but it's not me that needs to wrack their brain for it. If an orchestra video has been taken from a balcony with zoom from 100 feet of distance, you might (after everything is synchronized) be tempted to bump the audio another 100ms earlier in order to match the visuals better than the video camera did from that distance.syncing the audio from the camera to the higher quality audio from the mixer is a 5 second process on a bad day.
Interesting. What is the name of your video editor, I use Davinci Resolve Studio.
