What’s your favourite PRO LEVEL camera for high definition video AND audio for guitar?

dsouza

dsouza

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Anyone use any advanced cameras with pro level audio built in good enough for electric guitar? You just point, shoot upload in high video audio 4K and mp4 straight to YT or Twitch for live streaming ? No daw is needed. No editing software. It’s all built into the camera. No direct recording. Recording of live tube amps.

Here are some I’m considering:

Zoom Q8n-4K & Q2n-4K (Best for "World Class" Audio)

Not sure if the above would come up with any better Audio than an sm57 into a focus-rite into a daw like Live 10?
 
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Do you mean recording a cabinet in the room with the mic built into the camera?

To record video, your camera needs to be some distance away from the speaker. Which means it will record a lot of your room, so things will be muddy and reverberant.

Not to mention there’s a reason people use mics like the 57 to record guitar, they have coloration that is commonly desirable.
 
At least on my Sony cameras, you can attach an external microphone to capture audio with an external mic while shooting video. I think something like that would be your best bet. I haven't seen any pro level camera with builtin great audio capture facilities builtin but something like Sony's digital shotgun mics attaches to the hot shoe and lets you capture 4 channels at once and that's probably going to work well. But that's capturing the room so not going to sound like a closed up 57 as vangrieg pointed out. For that, you could run the 57 into something and into the camera, but typically with youtube you'd want to not just have the guitar. You likely want to talk to the camera as well so now you're either doing room audio or you have two mics and you'll start running into further issues with that because they will both capture the guitar and you'd need a mixer to separate them and mix them depending if you're talking or not.
 
I am wondering if it's best just not to talk on youtube and use an SM57 now.

It seems on my marshall amp my SM57 seems to have an almost washed up, faded, dead-duck sound. On the vox it comes alive.
 
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Possibly depends on what tone you’re after and what really is your goal with those videos. High end camera microphones are usually pretty „bad“ because for professional filming you have way more people on set, especially dedicated sound guys with field recorders and boom mics. Many cinema grade cameras don’t even have internal mics because no one would use that microphone for professional video production anyway. If at all, it serves for automatically syncing video footage with external microphones by auto aligning the wave form of your external recordings with the one from your internal microphone but even then professionals usually rely on timecode instead.

If your goal is to just quickly film a single take video while micing an amp, get a dslr or mirrorless camera, a hot shoe mounted mic preamp with xlr and hook it up with a guitar mic of your choice - but raw guitars usually need a bit of polishing to really sound good. Most lads on YouTube record the guitars inside their DAW, double track it, process it to make it sound better and then film multiple angles playing to that recording. It is rarely truly „live“. If you want to have a streamer setup with multiple mics for your voice and guitar, things get way more complicated… why exactly do you need this setup? Maybe people can give better recommendations then
 
M@ out. You lost me as soon as you said "No direct recording".
Also, no disrespect but I'd be SHOCKED if Zoom or Focusrite were even close to "best for world class".
Check out Dweezil's video studio if you want to see world class.
 
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I think a better recommendation is to:

a) improve technique
b) learn about recording

To record anything half decent from a distance in a room, no matter with what mic, the room itself needs to sound good.

Heck, I can’t even do zoom/teams calls further than a foot away from the mic because of all the reverberation from the drywall (and that’s with a decent Rode shotgun microphone).
 
there is no magical "one thing does it all" solution. this seems to be a trend in your recent questions.

you gotta learn the guitar parts. play clean. dial a good tone. then mic it up, then put the camera in the appropriate place.

SOME of the things you're watching are not live in the room, and it's mime'd on video, and properly mic'd and recorded first.

your previous videos are a good indicator of the level you're at currently, and there's nothing wrong with that. "better" comes from personal improvement in those areas, that's all it is.
 
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