some questions

rikki

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hi everyone.lets say i want to record a video when playing a song using a video camera while playing a backing track on my speakers,
where do i put my amp and my speakers?cause the last time i tried,it was the backing track was too close to the camera and i couldnt hear myself playing.please enlighten me.
 
wah, confusing at first. had to do word by word reading..

1) you wanna record video
2) a video of you playing a song's guitars.
3) while you're playing a song on the guitars, your speaker plays the bass/drums (I think thats what you meant by backtrack right?)

in this case, lets seperate these into pieces :
1) basically the camera has to get a decent angle of you and your guitar playing.

2) the video camera acts as a microphone. gotta record fine, but recording audio best avoid clipping/overload.

3) your speakers is overpowering uranus , I mean your playing.

solution : you can't simply strum so hard that you play louder than your speakers, you didn't mention what instrument though, electric guitar? acoustic guitar? electric guitar at least you can jack up your amp. but the louder your speakers + the louder your guitar amp = the microphone recording might distortion. so why not try place your speakers further away. or lower the playback volume?
or put the camera as far away as possible from the speakers but closer to you?
slowly find a balance heheh. cheers.

30¢ worth.
 
Well, I presume that you wanna shoot a simple music video of your own, I supposed so. This is how we does music video for people. And in fact, this is the way how music videos are made. But you would need some equipments and software to do it.

First, settle the audio. Playback the drums track and whatever necessary backing tracks in an audio recording software while you plug in your guitar via an audio interface into your computer to over-dub your guitar into the backing track. Mix-down and you are done.
Next, set up your video camera to whatever angle that you want but do not turn on the mic on the camera. Just shoot image without audio. Then, playback the backing tracks or the mix that you've done with whatever music player that you've got, while you strum along with it so that your footages captured in the camera is in sync with the music. Now, import the mix of the music that you've previously done, and footages from you video camera, into a video editing software. Sync image with mix and you're done.

In this way, you can turn on you music player as loud as you want without the fear that you video cam mic didn't capture a balanced the audio between your own guitar and the music player. Furthermore, with this method, you can even shoot different angle of you playing the guitar and simply edit and place them in sync with the music in a software.
 
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