What is the best camcorder to record instrumental performances?
My husband likes to record himself when he practices percussion instruments. The problem is we need a camcorder that has good qual ity picture and can record the sound as
it is. Some camcorders have an autoadjust in the sound so if a sound is too quiet it will make it louder and viseversa, we do not want that. We have looked at product descriptions but it didn’t say that much about sound and if it does we have no clue what it is saying.
What camcorder would you suggest for us?
You need something to control the audio levels.
There are a couple of Sony (HDR-HC7, HDR-FX1, HDR,-FX7 and Canon (HV20, XHA1) to identify a few – but as you will find, they are higher-end camcorders. But all of these camcorders have manual audio control.
Another way is to control the audio externally, but this does not work quite as well – and will require in investment in external microphones in addition to the external control. Specifically, If you were to use a camcorder with a mic-in jack (like all those above or the Canon ZR800) and use an XLR adapter (like those from BeachTek – I wold suggest the DXA-6vu so you can see the audio being sent to the camcorder)… and mics that use XLR connections, then you would be OK.
The last option I can think of is to use a “field recorder”. Several companies make them (M-Audio, Marantz, Fostex, among others). They have built-in mics or can connect external mics, they have manual audio-in level control and they typically record to some sort of memory card. When the video is edited in your computer, you set the audio from the camcorder video to zero and add this external audio on top of it.
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, SAENA – A quiet path, percussion Tombak
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