Quality Audio Recording for Video

Like the other video of supercap, (Stop yelling at the camera!) XD

Ryan Witt

Sounds weird without your echo

Another side you may want to discuss is a good quality cardio pattern mix. They are often used for live stage recording. (Along with pzms, which wouldn't work well for you). They lack the shotgun problem of limiting mobility, but allow you to get great sound. They will get all noise in the room, so if you have loud neighbors, it won't work. You also likely need a sound board for this option because they need power, and the good ones are phantom power, not battery. Bit yeah

Alia

I actually don't mind when YouTubers have some room character in their audio. It makes it more personal, I think. It makes your room sound like my room and makes you sound more "accessible." By switching to a lav, you lose that. So I wouldn't feel too bad; I think your videos sound great! If you want voice training on how to be loud without yelling, the acting world has been doing it for centuries! There's probably a YouTube channel for that...

Daniel Laughland

I'm not sure that would improve the quality much, a tube like that would echo and reverberate a lot. I imagine it would sound a lot like if you stuck a straw in your ear, it might be more directional but it wouldn't sound "normal" hence a lot of shotgun mics have slots in the tube and also place the capsule at different positions within the tube, to change the characteristics of the sound so they don't sound like you're listening to everything from the bottom of a well. Just my thoughts, I'm not an acoustic engineer.

It be fun to watch you make your own system. With Bluetooth not requiring the kind of licensing that UHF does, you can find some "ok" short range wireless kits if you look for the 2.4ghz systems. Keep in mind though your work with a Tesla coil and other things can make the wireless system unusable depending on how much EMF radiation is in the spectrum you're trying to use.

This was a really interesting video and helpful to newbies like me on this stuff. As for wireless mic, maybe something like two xbee or something? I think the hard part with wireless is going to be finding a good compromise between audio compression for speed and quality, though if you have enough bandwidth maybe just do it raw? I’m just spitballing off the top of my head

Maybe I should have watched the whole video before commenting eh! ????? You could make a radio (laypel) mic very easily with minimal components, but a good mic circuit would need more components to be better at attenuating background noise.

ALSO, you could open the camera and fit a mic socket so you can use other mics. ..... Or you could solder a capacitor across the internal mic.

You could build a circuit that goes between your mic and the camera, sort of like a small equaliser. ..... If your camera has an input for another mic, this should help, you can attenuate the frequencies causing the hiss, and background noise. OR, buy a small equaliser and use that. ..... You could try a small piece of tube and stick it over the mic hole and direct it toward you, this should (depending on the length), reduce background noise a little.

You could use some small diameter tube, by sticking the tube over the mic and aiming it at you, it becomes a directional mic which will pick up your voice much easier. Not a straw, but something a little bigger.

:) Yeah I thought some people may like it when they notice the video actually took much longer to record

ElectroBOOM [Mehdi Sadaghdar]

In your video it sounds like the audio is muted between your words when it is silent. Is it a feature of the microphone or is it post process? When you talk I hear a bit of low frequency tone.

ElectroBOOM [Mehdi Sadaghdar]

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rode-VMGO-Lightweight-Microphone-Super-Cardioid/dp/B00GQDORA4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511574180&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=rode+go+mic" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Rode-VMGO-Lightweight-Microphone-Super-Cardioid/dp/B00GQDORA4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511574180&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=rode+go+mic</a>This shot gun mic works suprisgly well, on my sony nex i get almost no noise. And have a good 10ft freedom of movement. With fixed gain on. If if you whisper it picks up sound very well. Hears an example i did with rode go mic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEY4tpnMzPg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEY4tpnMzPg</a>

Travis Kneale

I had to watch your video a second time. For some reason I was watching the clock behind you. I was enjoying seeing the time jump.

Maybe the problem is the buying cheap shit. Good video, this is useful all across the internet. No explosions.

King Parker

Good idea, but is a pain when it comes to editing

You are a genius, obviously! ;) just recorded a video of me talking and because of the same issue with auto gain i'm left with crap audio !!!!

Depending on what you use to edit your video, you may have an auto clip sync that will synchronize your clips based on their audio. With that you can record normally on your camera and record your primary audio on a separate recorder. Use the audio from the two clips to sync the tracks and then mute the audio on the video clips. That said, I very much look forward to the next video.