[sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman

[Barry Klein]

Hi Aaron,
That's cool.  I've thought some about it and I think the awesome video
resolution had us expecting just as good audio quality.  Now that you
explain it was a spur of the moment thing and a oneshot deal with the Target
recorder we all let go a collective "oh, well then, that's different".
Unfortunately it took like 10 hours for us to find this out so the
discussion continued spiraling out of control like most have in the last
several months.



Barry



-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Aaron Lanterman
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 6:00 PM
To: synth diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman

On May 7, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Barry Klein wrote:

> Why is the audio crappy?  Was it the hardware used or a file conversion
> artifact?  Bad audio when you are trying to demonstrate...audio...
well....


It's because I took it with a $99 camcorder from Target that I just happened
to have in my laptop bag, that tend to blow out the microphone when the
person holding the camera speaks, which I remembered I had and grabbed when
I got the idea to try taping these. I took quite a few videos before looking
at them, and on later ones I tried talking softer, but that didn't work too
well. It just seems to overload from sound from immediately behind the
camera.

When I got the idea to tape the demos, I'm sorry I didn't have all the
students stop while I went to try purchasing a more expensive camera with an
external audio input and perhaps some lapel microphones, and I didn't go
home to get my mixer, and spend a lot of time setting up a professional
recording session covering the particular moment I was checking off a
student project and telling them to go build a final version. I'm sorry I
didn't take the time to stop and review the video and reset speaker levels
for a better mix, when there were five more students - whose circuits
*weren't* working yet - waiting for me to help them. Oh, and I think I
checked off the first one around midnight, so I'm not sure where I would
have gotten a camera then anyway...

Perhaps I should have left the camera in my bag; perhaps I shouldn't have
bothered posting them at all, once I noticed the clipping. Perhaps I should
have spent a few weeks loading these clips into ProTools and bought a CEDAR
plug in to try to fix the clipping. Perhaps I should put a disclaimer on
each one explaining what I just explained so I don't have to explain it for
the nineteenth nine. Perhaps I should just go take the videos off the net
altogether.

- Aaron

P.S. Barry, I'm not venting at you in particular... but after two dozen
posts like this it is getting tiring; your post just happened to be the one
I was reading when I decided to vent. I have been spending days and nights
in lab helping students get their project works and am quite fried.
_______________________________________________
Synth-diy mailing list
Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy