[Carsten Radke]

Thanks! I guess it’s much more complicated than I can work out right now. But I’ll just give it a go. There’s no tutorial yet for the stuff I’m working on, so any material will be an improvement 😉

[Carsten Radke]

Thank you, Ty, for your swift answer; very kind.

The (a)-type recording is for a tutorial on learning to play capoeira instruments, i.e. I want to record Berimbau, Atabaque (barrel drum) and Pandeiro (tambourine). Also the accompanying voice-over. It’s a personal project for now and funds for a ‘professional’ mic like the Countryman E6 is sadly not in the budget. Would the Rode VM Pro (on a mic-stand near the source (instrument or speaker) give an acceptable result? (Ok, what does acceptable mean… 😉 Or would another mic in the price-range give such better results that I should chose that one forego the video-mic functionality of the Rode?

For the live music situation, it’s mainly for recording capoeira roda baterias, i.e. 3 Berimbaus (one string bows), stand-up drum and tambourine. Mostly in academías (training gyms) or public places. The loudness is medium – it being non-amplified acoustic instruments. With sometimes ambient noise (mostly people). But maybe the important information here is that I would think that the recording material is, independently of what mic is chosen, in any case not suitable, i.e. good enough, for “musical” use, e.g. on a CD. So, these recordings would mainly be for documentary purposes – to re-record the songs later, preserve the lyrics or as the original sound of video footage.

This purpose (original sound for video) might call for a stereo mic – but I am a musician, not video artist, and currently I need the video for the tutorial project. This project is the one at hand for which I would need an ‘adequate’ setup.

Thx again and kind regards,
carsten

[Carsten Radke]

Hi Ty,

I have tried to find an answer to my question but did not find one. My dilemma is that I have two situations where I will need a microphone to record while filming:

(a) for a DVD that accompanies a musical instruments learning course, i.e. one person playing instructive (music) samples on one intstument –> for which I would have chosen the Rode Videomic Pro

(b) for recording live music from 5-6 musicians –> for which I would have chosen the Rode Stereo Videomic

As the quality for the DVD might be more important than the live samples, I might have gone with the VM Pro. Also, does a mono recording of live music sound really bad? Or is there a way to alleviate this?

Been brooding over the question for two days. Would greatly appreciate a tip. Kind regards, Carsten