Have you ever tried to record your acoustic guitar adding percussive slaps and found it impossible to avoid clipping? Obviously, a compressor/limiter on the front end could mitigate this, but in my current setup, I didn't have a way to add one in line. So, the solution was to position the X-Y Mic above my head about 3 feet away. This allowed me to increase the mic sensitivity to the desired levels without clipping every time I smacked the guitar. I hope this isn't too obvious to be helpful. Here are a couple of examples I was playing around with to fine tune the video and levels. I've seen and heard some pretty bad acoustic guitar videos and always try to maximize what I have if I'm going to share something. I researching webcams that offer 60fps this year as 30fps still makes fast right had parts blurry. What have you found that works? Feel free to leave a comment, thanks!
Mic and video test #2
I'm using the Zoom H4N with stereo X-Y mics. I like that it has a monitor mode where the mics are always on. I don't have to press any buttons to have it detect audio and be ready to go. Also, it has many accessories such as: mic stand/mount, pop screen, remote, etc. I also appreciate that I can keep it out of the videos.
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