YouTube Audio Quality

[bpassman]

First, let me start by saying I love you guys and what you're doing and that I love the YouTube videos. Since since this is Audioholics, can you guys pickup some lavalier (lapel) mics and simple 2 ch mixer for the camera? Especially when you guys are both in Gene's room with Tiberius and Spock, there is a lot of echo and loss of your high quality voices.

 

[gene]

Yea I know we've received about 50 requests to improve our audio in the last 2 weeks. The last round of videos we shot were done with our external mic accidentally turned off so you were hearing the mic from the internal CAM 15ft away. We will take more care to improve this in future videos.

If you have any recommendations on mics and mixers, shoot me a link. thx.

 

[agarwalro]

I'm fairly confident that someone who works in trapping echos is quietly chuckling to themselves.

 

[bpassman]

Yea I know we've received about 50 requests to improve our audio in the last 2 weeks. The last round of videos we shot were done with our external mic accidentally turned off so you were hearing the mic from the internal CAM 15ft away. We will take more care to improve this in future videos.

If you have any recommendations on mics and mixers, shoot me a link. thx.

I'm used some shotgun mics and lavaliers from B&H like below. The shotgun would be the cheapest route, and the connector type will depend on your camera's audio input type.

Shotgun
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1017550-REG/rode_videomic_go_on_camera_shotgun.html

Dual Wireless Mics
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1029607-REG/azden_wdl_pro_dual_wireless_bodypack_kit.html

Hope these help, and looking forward to seeing more videos and reviews.

 

[gene]

I'm used some shotgun mics and lavaliers from B&H like below. The shotgun would be the cheapest route, and the connector type will depend on your camera's audio input type.

Shotgun
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1017550-REG/rode_videomic_go_on_camera_shotgun.html

Dual Wireless Mics
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1029607-REG/azden_wdl_pro_dual_wireless_bodypack_kit.html

Hope these help, and looking forward to seeing more videos and reviews.

I have the RODE VideoMic actually but I made the mistake of putting it towards the ceiling so it wouldn't show in our view so it just got lots of reflected sound. I will move it close to us in the next series of videos and bump the gain up on it. If that doesn't satisfy, I will get lapels.

 

[gene]

I'm fairly confident that someone who works in trapping echos is quietly chuckling to themselves.

Maybe but I'd take a room that you can have a normal conversation in any day over an anechoic environment just to shoot better sounding videos

 

[highfigh]

Maybe but I'd take a room that you can have a normal conversation in any day over an anechoic environment just to shoot better sounding videos

Why not put up temporary panels out of the camera's view? Studios use goboes for blocking sound all the time- it doesn't need to be anechoic but it doesn't need to be perfect for listening to music or watching a movie since that's not what you're doing at the time, either. The partitions used for office cubicles would be perfect and I would thing you have a place that sells them near you. A lot of voice-over work is done in small rooms that are acoustically dead, or they use something like this-

http://www.dv247.com/assets/products/200177_l.jpg

Parts Express sells one and it's not terribly expensive- it would be great for the videos that you narrate, off-camera. For the others, you just need to re-create the effect of a screen- If you only place the panels behind the camera, it should improve the sound.

If you decide to build some kind of booth for making the videos, you could wear in-ear monitors and add a bit of reverb to the monitor send, so you don't hear yourself without any ambience- having been in an anechoic chamber, I completely understand not wanting to record in one.