conky wrote:I posted the other day that I picked up a Zoom Q2HD for recording practice. Tried it out last night. Pros: Sounds great. The audio isn't as compressed and shitty. Our practice space is so loud though that the signal clipped a little bit but it picked up everything clearly and the low end was nice and fat and the cymbals cut through but were not harsh. Cons: The video quality is supposed to be 1080i but its kinda shitty and the files are all Quicktime based and can't be used with windows movie maker. When recording video, you are only able to record 17 minutes before the included 2 gig card fills up. I put a 4gig card in it and got 35 minutes worth. When recording audio only you can get about 2 hours worth on it though. The biggest bitch on this thing though is the battery life. I recorded about 15 minutes worth of audio, listened back to it two or three times and then had it connected to my computer for about 15 minutes and the batteries died. Fucking sucks. I don't know if I'll end up keeping it or not but it did work pretty well for recording audio for practices. I might take it back and swap it for an audio only recorder or maybe one of those Tascam video recorders.
Just thought I'd post my findings in case any of you guys were thinking about picking one up.
I thought I remember you buying it already, so ignore my comment if you did. The Q3HD might have been better for you, then, because you can power it with a DC plug. I'm not sure whether the video formats are the same.
I'll definitely be picking up something like the Q3HD because of how handy they are, but it doesn't compare to a proper HD video camera and a couple of dedicated microphones into a good quality preamp.
Grrface wrote:Most people hate the sound of their voice. The inside of your head reverberates or something so you sound bassier. It's one of those weird things.
Even worse? Watch video of yourself. I was interviewed a while back, and I couldn't make it more than a minute into watching the interview.
I kind of actually like hearing and seeing myself on video. It's nice to know what everyone sees, because our own perceptions are usually rather warped. Whenever I "sang" in my old band Poor Reeves, I usually screamed in a weird kind of way, so you couldn't tell it was me. When I sang when I studied Sound Engineering in college, that was difficult because it was studio quality recording and I was trying to sing properly, and I'm not the best.
chillerthanmost wrote:Doesn't almost everyone hate their voice recorded? It's easily the most uncomfortable part of mixing/editing when recording with the band for me. I feel like I let everyone down or ruined what could had been decent if I sounded better, haha. I love being a three piece but I still haven't adjusted to enjoying the sound of my own voice on record.
I also picture everyone by their avatar, even though I look nothing like the handsome Mr. Bill Murray. I sometimes wonder meeting up with a few members and how I would look for their avatar picture when looking out for them if I've never seen them before. I'd have to ask a secret question to verify they are who they say they are because THEY ARE NOT THEIR AVATAR IN REAL LIFE!
Yeah, I mean, I love boobs and everything, but I don't talk about them all the time or anything. I'm usually quite sensitive about that kind of thing, because I don't want to give the impression that I see women as objects, but I know who I am and I know that it's all done in jest. I'm just messing about. My avatar is not a reflection of me in any way, even if I do like boobs and black and white photography.
Actually, though, the original photo that was cropped due to sizing issues was about loving music, and I do love music.
Ancient Astronaught wrote:skullservant wrote:I work on the phones all day, I end up getting called ma'am at least once or twice a week. Apparently my customer service voice is an octave or two higher than my normal voice, that or I just sound like a woman for real
While your voice isn't very bass heavy I couldn't see you getting mixed up for a female. But the frequency filtering of most commercial phones makes people sound very different so who knows.
My voice changes, normally its not very bass heavy unless I try. Thanks to the metal plate making up half my sinuses and constantly being congested I feel like my voice is more nasally than it used to be. But get a couple brews in me, or some mixed greens and my voice drops down and the bass comes in, its the weirdest thing but people have been telling me for years that they know I'm inebriated when I start sounding just like Patrick Warburton
I have sinus problems as well and always sound nasally, especially when I try to sing, or maybe it's just more apparent then. I have a decent voice, but that constant congestion in my head ruins it.
