CrazyTechie
Well-Known Member
Hi all, at one of the school's I work at we're working on planning out ways to do a "virtual concert" for our performing arts classes. The plan is to record each class performing a song or two and then put it online for a period of time for parents to be able to watch.
The thing I'm trying to work out with all of that is recording the sound. We have a camera (Canon Vixia HFG20) that has the built-in stereo mic plus an inexpensive hyper-cardioid interview mic mounted on it. We did some test recordings last week and they sound...okay.... There was some slight background buzz/noise on both which might be fine for the production quality we're aiming for with how many recordings we need to do.
I'm wondering if anyone has any microphone recommendations specifically for cameras that we could look at to get a little bit better audio quality without much effort. The camera has a 3.5mm input jack for external line-in or a microphone and a mount on top that a microphone could secure to.
I'm wanting to keep this as simple as possible so adding a sound board or other gear to get a line-in mix is something we want to avoid for portability and ease of use.
Thanks!
The thing I'm trying to work out with all of that is recording the sound. We have a camera (Canon Vixia HFG20) that has the built-in stereo mic plus an inexpensive hyper-cardioid interview mic mounted on it. We did some test recordings last week and they sound...okay.... There was some slight background buzz/noise on both which might be fine for the production quality we're aiming for with how many recordings we need to do.
I'm wondering if anyone has any microphone recommendations specifically for cameras that we could look at to get a little bit better audio quality without much effort. The camera has a 3.5mm input jack for external line-in or a microphone and a mount on top that a microphone could secure to.
I'm wanting to keep this as simple as possible so adding a sound board or other gear to get a line-in mix is something we want to avoid for portability and ease of use.
Thanks!