Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller)
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Nice... very smooth!
Fast comment... Piotr, I know why you wear the big ugly headphones, and I see that your editing ends up blacking out a lot of the frame, focusing a lot on one side of the accordion and that this may be your style, if so, then I apologize.
But if you are doing this perhaps thinking that there is no other choice and are hiding them like this, and have internal mics on that accordion, you shouldn't really need to.
If you look at my last video, I do not wear anything *and* at the time that I am making the recording, I am listening to the backing track over speakers and there is nearly no bleeding through of those speakers in to the acoustic mics of my recording track of the accordion side (I can hear the bleed through only in the beginning silent portion of the song and I have to turn up the speakers to 65% of maximum! The bleed-through is 100% hidden once the tracks are all assembled).
But... you may say that you perhaps are using external condenser mics, and those things are super sensitive and can pick up a mouse fart at 20 meters (lol)... and that would be true!
However, there is a solution to that too, if acceptable for you. In my "Pretend" video I was using external condenser mics but no headsets. There I am actually cheating a little, I am wearing good quality Sony ear plugs and routing the wire over my ears and down my back, then routing the cable all the way to my DAW. Because of their size, they are nearly invisible in the video, unless you are specifically looking for them.
So... just saying that if you feel that you NEED to wear them and hate that look in a video as much as I do (lol)... there are easy and effective alternatives and you don't actually need to anymore.
But if you are doing this perhaps thinking that there is no other choice and are hiding them like this, and have internal mics on that accordion, you shouldn't really need to.
If you look at my last video, I do not wear anything *and* at the time that I am making the recording, I am listening to the backing track over speakers and there is nearly no bleeding through of those speakers in to the acoustic mics of my recording track of the accordion side (I can hear the bleed through only in the beginning silent portion of the song and I have to turn up the speakers to 65% of maximum! The bleed-through is 100% hidden once the tracks are all assembled).
But... you may say that you perhaps are using external condenser mics, and those things are super sensitive and can pick up a mouse fart at 20 meters (lol)... and that would be true!
However, there is a solution to that too, if acceptable for you. In my "Pretend" video I was using external condenser mics but no headsets. There I am actually cheating a little, I am wearing good quality Sony ear plugs and routing the wire over my ears and down my back, then routing the cable all the way to my DAW. Because of their size, they are nearly invisible in the video, unless you are specifically looking for them.
So... just saying that if you feel that you NEED to wear them and hate that look in a video as much as I do (lol)... there are easy and effective alternatives and you don't actually need to anymore.
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Piotr
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Thanks.
Jerry, I only have large external condenser mics
There is another possibility too. I can play a backing track and use wireless headphones.
But then you have to mix it well in your DAW.I do that sometimes, but it's a bit more work.
Jerry, I only have large external condenser mics
There is another possibility too. I can play a backing track and use wireless headphones.
But then you have to mix it well in your DAW.I do that sometimes, but it's a bit more work.
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Nope... my SUGGESTION is that you can wear small earphones and cover them with a touch or two with a comb to cover the wires, then route the wire down your back. The first time I tried it, it looked good, but I had them going down not up and behind my ears and they were a little more visible than if I had done it right.Thanks.
Jerry, I only have large external condenser mics
There is another possibility too. I can play a backing track and use wireless headphones.
But then you have to mix it well in your DAW.I do that sometimes, but it's a bit more work.
Example:
In the above video, the wire falls down and behind. In the future videos if needed, I route them up and over the ears, down the back and with a cheap ($5) extension I made, go all the way to my mixer and I can hear everything, backing track and accordion very clearly. The ones that I will use now are from my last trip to Europe. Air Canada handed them to all passengers out for free and they have the soft silicone inserts, small and thin wires, they work very well (these are the ones you can find in near any dollar store for $1).
With condenser mics, the only thing you will have to test with your setup is the volume of the earphones, unless you like loud backing tracks in the earphones and don't have the kind that seal perfectly in the ear, you could potentially bleed some backing track in to the accordion mics and that might be heard in the start/ending or quiet portions of the song.
Now, please hear me, I am not stating everyone should do this, everyone is free to do what they feel is best, but you know how I feel that it looks and how it takes away from your videos, as good as they are... and its an easy/cheap fix (and if I really wanted to get super picky, I could paint the black parts to a color closer to my skin... lol).
You are the boss of your videos, I am just making a suggestion.
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Piotr
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Thank you very much for your suggestions.
I must admit that I like studio headphones and I don't see anything wrong with showing them
Besides, I don't have small headphones with a long cable, and the Bluetooth one is out of the question due to latency and I don't know how to connect it to a mixer without BT. I use Allen&Heath ZEDi10FX.
I must admit that I like studio headphones and I don't see anything wrong with showing them
Besides, I don't have small headphones with a long cable, and the Bluetooth one is out of the question due to latency and I don't know how to connect it to a mixer without BT. I use Allen&Heath ZEDi10FX.
