(second try, fixing the link)
Here is my version: Audio Link #2
Sorry for being MIA, a little busy with Passover, family, work.
You know, life: This thing that gets between me and my bass…
Haven’t had a chance to read the thread or listen to any of the posts. Had to put the kids in front of a movie so I can go record, but I don’t want to fall behind on the challenge.
Still haven’t figured out an easy and fast way to remove the lag from video so audio it is for now. (Been trying OBS and Lightworks but I just don’t have time to fiddle)
Cheers, and I hope to get more involved again soon.
Very nice @Mike_NL,
Right on point👍, the mix was very good.
I like the way you really focus on emphasising the notes with your fretting hand, it really makes the notes clear.
My bass teacher taught me the same way, it’s a minor thing that really has a big impact👍
Cheers Brian
Did you use the same backing track that was shared here? It sounds like a slightly different recording of the song. I like it a lot better!
Love the video, LOVE the tone!
You feel a bit ahead of the beat at times, that’s all.
For sure this is your setup, the delay is consistently there and you look way to relaxed and in the tune for this to be you.
I gave up on recording video for the time being because I can’t get the delay under control, so I am using Audacity for audio only. I have the one track for the backing track, and one audio track taking the input from my DAI.
Check your monitoring setup. I found that if I set up the software to monitor my bass through the computer sound output the delay is too great, so I use the “direct monitor” on my DAI to monitor the bass, and the software is set to send the backing track to be monitored via the DAI as well, so I hear both from the DAI monitoring output.
The simplest way I can get this to work for me is to record the audio into the DAW (in my case Garage Band) and run my Iphone to record the video at the same time.
I then import the video file and sound file into Imovie and drag the sound file around until it somewhat syncs up with the video. I reduce the sound from the Iphone movie file to zero so I don’t get any delay / poor audio from the tiny in built phone mic. I’m sure there’s a more efficient way but it currently works and I can spend more time playing and less time learning software.
I do want to get the video going, as I like seeing everyone playing and I think there is a lot of input I can get from others about my technique that you can’t without video.
Hi @Barney,
If you are using GB, you instead of recording using your phone use photo booth to record video then drag the audio and video into iMovie and do the syncing in their, that’s how I record all my covers,
Cheers Brian
Sounded like the original to me. No video. Did you just play the original song for us to fool us?
Just kidding.
Really well done on this. Good job for squeezing the bass into life when you can. It can be tough for me sometimes too. All you need to do is become a professional band with your family and then you have family and work and bass all at the same time.
This is exactly what I did on the last video after spending hours in OBS trying to sync a live recording and banging my head against the wall.
Not sure it matters any, but you can actually just split out the audio from the video and delete the audio track. Not sure that gives any benefit over just muting the audio in the video track though. In fact, might be better to maintain the audio track just in case.
@TNKA36 - When you say you use photo booth to record video, are you using a laptop camera or some external camera? Or did you mean on your phone? I think if I could use Photo Booth with an external camera that would be ideal.
Yeah, that works, if you can get the built-in camera in the right position, but I’d like a bit more flexibility with an external camera. Sounds very convenient though!
In IMovie I use the audio waveform under the IPhone video to give me a quick visual start point to my playing. I drag my audio from my DAW to match and then I drop that audio down to zero and fine tune the sync.
It’s just a fast way to roughly get to the start point.
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