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Im finally getting started with a series of video demoes for t he whole BJF line... and then Ill start in on Pedalstacker vids etc....

What is helpful to you in a vid and what would you rather do wtihout

well since recording, processing and playback can have so many variables, sometimes exact tone is hard to hear.

comparisons of vol, gain, voice, etc are easier to distinguish.
so if someone had one of the pedals in comparison, they could get a good sense of what the other one could do. that is sometimes most helpful to me.

Also running thru the extreme settings is helpful to get idea of the range.

I would say do what you normally do!

It's difficult enough to hear/feel the sound even if you use the best of mics when recording, if you're lucky you may get a clue though. With that said, I think I also said that the mics in camcorders should be avoided. Or, try to use both, the camcorder mic for speech and the "real" only for the music.

What's also important, in the end, is how the video is rendered and presented. Most vidoes are compressed to the max (depends on how you set it up) - to get the file size down - and of course this also leads to poor audio quality. IMO the absolute minimum quality for MP3 audio or similar should be 128kbps, but preferable 192kbps (or more). I guess how good you ever will get the result in your computer, or on tape, this quality will be destroyed in the same second you decide to upload the finished work to Youtube or similar. So this case is not easy to solve

I hope you got some help of what's said above, and hopefully it wasn't totally out of the blue.

Good luck, Donner, you're doing a lot of good work!

I'd say that capturing the sound accurately is most important to me. While I can't say I'm much of a professional in these matters, would a thought of miking the guitar cabinet with a measurement microphone be a ridiculous one? I think I read about using the Behringer's (for the inexpensiveness) ECM8000 for purposes a bit like this. At least it's frequency response should be linear. A decent preamp and A/D converter (sound card) to complement?

The YouTube (re)compression is a bit uncomfortable for sound, I think. I wonder if there are other similar sites, which offer a bit more space for less compression. I think the bitrate of ~192 kbps is quite all right - or just LAME encoder with variable bitrate and -V2 --vbr-new flags.

Well, that's just my two cents.

thanks guys, all good info.....

Yeah Ive started using an SM57 and mixing it into a little board witht he camera mic and that is better ...

and also found some plug ins to get trid of the treble distortion....


but yes once it goes to YouTube it gets whacked a bit also.... I put some up on Revver, and they sound better but are slower to load and these smaller sites no one really sees or searches them, so yes better quality but much smaller audience......

all things to be weighed.....

keep em comin.....