Im new to the board, and relatively new to taping. I film live music, mainly Funky type Jam music.
I started off simply by using a Zoom Q3HD, which made things very simple, but clearly the video quality is not great there.
I am currently using a Canon Hs21 (
http://tinyurl.com/8xq98yw) for video with a Rhode SVM Condenser Mic (
http://tinyurl.com/76szhjl ) that Ive adapted to fit the mini hot shoe on the camera for Audio.
For the most part this setup does well for quieter shows, but that is often not the situation. In loud and very bassy situations, the audio just doesn't come out up to par. The recordings seem to lack a rich low end and the bass seems to distort the rest of the audio clarity when things get really loud. I almost prefer the audio from my old Zoom Q3hd. My Canon has a convenient audio level control knob but it seems no matter how i set the audio in really loud situations, it just cant handle audio that well.
I dont know a whole lot about audio equipment, and its hard to tell what may work for me, so Im desperate for experienced suggestions.
My priorities are something that:
- is not to large, nothing larger than the rhode.
-could be mounted onto the top of my camera (i have a mini hotshoe to tripod adapter)
-is good on battery life.
- sounds god
- easy to set and forget
- can run into my mic input on the camera
I did a lot of poking around and see a lot of people having good results with the Sony M10, but im curious if omni-directional microphones would be good in a concert environment (crowd chatter) where im in the back of the room. My other concern is it would be very difficult to monitor the audio level since it would be on top of my camera almost 7 feet in the air.
What other options are there out there like the rhode but of higher quality? I like it because I can just plug the line into my camera and watch the audio level on my cameras rotating screen.
Sometimes I just wonder if Im being overly picky on my sound. Here is an example of one concert where the bass starts to break up the audio a little bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQAgkp7GWrUAny advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.