FromTheWayside
Well-known member
Hey UU'ers -
I have a tech question I was hoping someone on the forum could help me answer. This question isn't stictly a uke technical issue, so if this thread needs to be moved, by all means. Anyway, here's the actual question:
I have recorded a few videos and put them up onto YouTube. In general, these have been done using a "FlipVideo" camera or from the iSight camera I have (the old-school external kind, not the ones that are built into newer macs). I also have a MIDI keyboard / recording device (a Line6 KB37). I thought it would be cracker-jack to be able to record reasonably high quality video from the iSight, and great quality uke / guitar and vocals through the KB37. Initial tests with my guitar were very promising - it sounded good and there was no background noise because it was feeding directly into the computer. When I tried to record vocals as well, though, things went down hill. The KB37 was obviously receiving input (I could tell because the levels were changing as they would if I was recording normally), but no vocals appeared in the video. Has anyone else run into this problem? Does anyone have a solution handy? I would love to be able to more high quality videos of me playing and singing (especially with an acoustic electric uke, once that arrives) using something more than a FlipVideo, but if there's no work around for this, I'll do what I have to do.
I hope that made at least some sense...if anyone has any questions / tips / recommendations, I'm all ears. I'm going to go and tool around on YT again to see if I can come up with something.
Thanks everyone!
I have a tech question I was hoping someone on the forum could help me answer. This question isn't stictly a uke technical issue, so if this thread needs to be moved, by all means. Anyway, here's the actual question:
I have recorded a few videos and put them up onto YouTube. In general, these have been done using a "FlipVideo" camera or from the iSight camera I have (the old-school external kind, not the ones that are built into newer macs). I also have a MIDI keyboard / recording device (a Line6 KB37). I thought it would be cracker-jack to be able to record reasonably high quality video from the iSight, and great quality uke / guitar and vocals through the KB37. Initial tests with my guitar were very promising - it sounded good and there was no background noise because it was feeding directly into the computer. When I tried to record vocals as well, though, things went down hill. The KB37 was obviously receiving input (I could tell because the levels were changing as they would if I was recording normally), but no vocals appeared in the video. Has anyone else run into this problem? Does anyone have a solution handy? I would love to be able to more high quality videos of me playing and singing (especially with an acoustic electric uke, once that arrives) using something more than a FlipVideo, but if there's no work around for this, I'll do what I have to do.
I hope that made at least some sense...if anyone has any questions / tips / recommendations, I'm all ears. I'm going to go and tool around on YT again to see if I can come up with something.
Thanks everyone!