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Comment by Mike Grieff on August 13, 2010 at 6:49pm

A very, nice song, Gil. It sure, sounded great goin' through my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Sound Card and comin' out of my M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 monitors. ... someday, I hope I can learn to play guitar like the rest of you fellas, and make the beautiful music you all do; insteada' jus', bein' a 'dumb strummer'. - Mike

Comment by Gil on August 13, 2010 at 6:25pm

Latest remixing/remastering effort. Going for a natural sound. Beggining to think that when it comes to solo acoustic doing less is more.

Comment by Gil on August 11, 2010 at 8:49pm

Edward, lol! Thanks but I'm a master of nothing and just a blind goose in a hailstorm learning by trial and error.
I have now completely changed my mixing and mastering technique due to listening on an ultra high end stereo and hearing the mistakes I have made revealed clearly.

It's frustrating but I am learning a lot and always happy to pass on anything I know (which is not much). I don't even own any recording equipment! I make do with what I got.

Comment by Mike Grieff on August 11, 2010 at 3:19pm

Edward, I was just, reading Gil's post. I have seen several of Gil's Videos; he is very, good; as an artist and at making those videos.
Gil and I have already, met ... Hey, there Gil. Hope all is well. ... We came up with different ideas for a song about the Gulf's Oil Spill, almost simultaneously; it was almost, spooky.
Thanks for the insight, Gil - Mike

Comment by Edward Sparks on August 11, 2010 at 1:15pm

Jeeze! Gil, I know you are a master of this..I should have remembered that and gotten you involved earlier...sorry! hey Mike, Gil here is great at this and has posted many videos to prove it...check out his "stuff!" Edward

Comment by Gil on August 11, 2010 at 12:28pm

The videos I make are of me actually recording the audio.
I call them recording session videos because that's what they are.

Audio is recorded to a Sony ECM-MS907 stereo mic plugged directly into a Soundblaster Xtreme Music sundcard (set on audio creation mode) and always recorded at 24 bits/ 96 kHz. This gives me a good raw recording to start mastering from. Always keep the raw untouched recording in your archives though. Save any mastering to another file.

For video/audio sync its easy for me since they both are recorded at the same time. All I do is trim the audio and/or video until the vocal sounds like one person singing with no echo and I'm synced. Then I urn the video audio off and make my video.

For mixing and mastering I use a combination of Audacity, Nero Wave Editor, and the Creative Media Source recorder. It's quite involved with a lot of back and forth. I monitor through real stereo speakers through a Luxman amp (160 WPC).
I've learned about speaker calibration as well. First I played CDs from bands I like and adjusted my tone settings so they sounded good to me in my room. Then I use those same settings to listen to my own music as I master it.

I used to use headphones but find they are very deceiving and my music did not translate well to real speakers. I still use headphones as part of my process but only for noise reduction detection to pick up anything you normally can't hear in speakers. But real speakers always determine the final outcome.

I'm no expert and have made my share of mistakes. My biggest handicap is no recording equipment at all other than a mic.
I use NeroVision to make the videos. It allows fine trimming in .03 second intervals.

Comment by Mike Grieff on August 11, 2010 at 8:34am

Thank You, John. - Mike

Comment by John Gundrum on August 11, 2010 at 8:26am

Mike: Acoustic Guitar Mag just had an article on recording video and the way to sync the sound to the video is to make one clap at the very beginning of the recording. What you do then is sync the audio and video audio using this one clap. When it's synced, mute the video audio.

Here's a link to a discussion about video recording in the Portable Recording forum: Video Recording Advice?

Here's a link to the AG article on recording video: Recording YouTube Videos

Comment by Mike Grieff on August 11, 2010 at 8:00am

That's what I'm talkin' about! Robert, Edward, you guys are helpin' me a bunch, I appreciate it, thanks!
I completely, understand what yer sayin', Robert, yes, the Toneport is plugged-in via USB. I have always been a bit confused in the 'correct' set-up using the Toneport; there seemed to be a few, too, many ways available to get audio input. I have always felt the scenario you described was the way to get, and monitor, the truest, audio, but at the same time thought I should use the laptop's soundcard, too ... I guess.
As a matter of fact, possibly, why I asked all this here in the 1st place, the last time I did record some audio, I did exclusively, use the Toneport, recorded with Live4 and monitored the audio via the toneport's headphone output.
I did not 'render', or 'save' it as a 'wav' file, I recorded and didn't like what I had done, put it away and walked away, thinkin' I'll get back to it sometime.
Ya know, there are so, many volume options; the Toneport's headphone, output, (I set it at 50%, thinking this will give me an idea of getting consistency, not over recorded, and room to 'turn it up' in the final, mastered, audio file), the Gearbox software's tones, settings and amps and volume, the volume in Live4, it all gets overwhelming sometimes. ... whew!

Comment by Robert Hancox on August 11, 2010 at 7:45am

Mike, I think your confusion is that you view MovieMaker as a recording tool. It's just a tool to put the audio and video together. I'm sure you can record with MovieMaker, but that's not it's purpose in what I do and what you're ultimately trying to do. I think you're making it more complicated than it really needs to be.

Anything anyone of us can do to help, your beckon is our call.

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