Stuart Allman
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I guess I have a set of less grim suggestions.
1. Make friends with an audio junkie and get him/her excited about this project. Be prepared to buy a meal or two. Being able to use all their fancy, expensive gear makes audio junkies feel all warm and fuzzy inside. How do I know this? …no comment.
2. Talk to the FOH person. Sometimes these people have their own gear and like to make recordings of the live shows they mix. I know of at least one venue in the San Diego area that makes cheap recordings of live shows available to the amateur musicians as a way to make a few extra dollars. You can always re-mix it in post. Just make sure you capture a set of stereo placed room mic(s) so you can get the live venue sound in post as well as everyone on stage mic’d. The only thing you’ll probably have to watch out for is drum mic’ing, but you’ll see what I mean quickly. In fact, a couple cameras placed stage left and stage right with on-camera mic’s would probably get *you* close enough to the room tone.
A good live mix isn’t easy. Please don’t try to do it in FCP. ;-( See solution #1 above.
S.
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24″ monitor: I have an HP LP2465 at work and at home. It’s a professional graphics monitor hidden as a “business” monitor. The HP model has a SIPS display, as opposed to a MVA or PVA (i.e. Samsung LCD panel) like the Dell. Note that the high-end Eizo’s and LaCie’s are SIPS based. If you can’t afford a professional monitor like an Eizo, I would highly recommend the HP. I guess it really comes down to a decision based on whether or not you need your LCD for HD studio monitoring as well.
Audio: I use the Adobe Audition tools. Although I find their software to be incredibly buggy, they did a good job of providing a well rounded set of audio cleanup options. The caveat is that you need to know what you are doing with Adobe’s clean up tools. The “auto” cleanup options in this software rarely work well enough. Other people I’ve talked to use and like Sound Soap.
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I’m using the JBL 6328’s, which I don’t think are made anymore. JBL now has new digital input, network-able versions. These are pretty much true reference speakers with no coloration. I can clearly hear the difference between a good and bad mix on them.
I wasn’t too enthused about the KRKs when I A-B’d them with the JBLs. …sorry Walter, just an opinion. I’m an audio guy who is just getting into video rather than the other way around.
Stuart
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I’m not sure if it’s compatible with the JVC version of HDV, but I have a Sony HVR-M15U listed on the classified ads section of the forums and it’s about the same cost as a firestore. It does HDV, DVCAM, and DV with mini-DV and full size DV cassettes.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/38/859163
Stuart