> Chel van Gennip wrote:
>> For all the video's on my son's website I use a double system. It is
>> better to asume the audio in camcorders is bad. Bad microphones, bad
>> preamps, bad AGC, bad AD converters, etc. The chances you find anything
>> decent are minimal. If you record music, the "sync clap" is not really
>> needed. It is not to difficult to match two audio tracks. I normally
>> first take the video, ad some titles, and save the result both as video
>> and as a just audio track. After that I go to my DAW, import the audio
>> track as a guide, and align the audio from the audio recorder to this
>> track. The advantage of the DAW is that alignment can be more precise,
>> video software often is frame based, so you only can shift audio whole
>> frames. On the website http://www.serg.vangennip.com/www/video.html you
>> find a lot of results. Even in long pieces, like the 30 minute
>> Mussorgsky Pictures sync is not a problem. You find a seperate short
>> (5min) sample in high-res at
>> http://www.vangennip.com/Serg_van_Gennip_Appassionata_3mvmt.html
>
> Thanks for your input and for sharing the very nice performance by your
> son. (Beethoven sonatas are some of my favorite solo piano music.) There
> is a nice subtle stereo effect on the recording but I only see one mic.
> Did you record with multiple mics or achieve this in post?

I had failed with open air concerts before: rain, wind, churchbells, piza delivery etc., so I used 2 PZM's (Crown PZM30D) inside the lid of the piano: http://www.vangennip.com/grachtenconcert.jpg

-- Chel van Gennip Visit Serg van Gennip's site http://www.serg.vangennip.com