[Scott Dorsey]

Mr Soul wrote:
In the past when I've recorded audio for live video, I have carted my
DAW, audio interface, monitor, etc. to gigs and recorded it in 8
tracks. I then sync the audio up to the video and viola - I've gotten
pretty good results. I can certainly do this again.

However, I'd like to see if there's some easier way to get reasonable
audio for a video shoot. Alternatives I can think of:

Video of what? A band? A talking head? Something else?

- just shoot the video and use the audio from the camera's mic
(easiest)

This is very bad.

- run the board and/or AT4050 mic into the camera (in stereo)

This can work but unfortunately most consumer cameras have nasty AGC that
cannot be disabled. If you have a decent camera you can run an ambient
mike and a board feed into two channels and mix later on.

- record using just the AT4050 (I would need a phantom power source to
do this.

The 4050 is not what I would choose as an ambient mike and I suspect you will
be disappointed with that.

- get an portable, digital recorder and record with that
- bring my DAW

Both of these are fine ideas. If you can live with a final mono mix, you
can probably survive with just a mike feed and a PA feed and mix in post.

The better the PA quality, the easier it is. The worse the PA, the harder.
--scott
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