paradoxtma 3Speak Podcast: Recent Episodes
Eric Atwood
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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/uncqlhgi
Nature conspired to stop me from getting this video posted this weekend, but I have prevailed. Not as prevalently as I would have liked... I really wanted to do some multitrack audio for this one, but alas, I'm out of time.
Like other videos, I'm just using multiple video recording sources, then syncing and blending them all together. For this one, I have the old Sony Cybershot camera, an LG Rebel4 phone, and a Motorola E6 phone.
This is my newest recording, and originally was meant to get a lot more attention, but I've had a touch of the 'rona, and after 3 takes, I decided my vocals just aren't good enough right now for an 'official' cut. For my first 'official' recording, I think I'll use this format, but instead of playing and singing all at once, I'll do the music and vocals in separate videos.
The biggest problem I had to overcome this weekend was resurrecting the old desktop. For reasons I still haven't determined, the newest linux kernel update broke my Ubuntu system on the old frankenstein build, and I've been sampling linux distros ever since, looking for something that plays friendly with my 12 year old hardware. I've also been updating firmware, adding memory, replacing my mouse...
Once I finally got something working, I decided to try the latest version of OpenShot, and it had a cool new feature for tiling all of the video streams on one screen, which is why we have the cool new look.
This video sounds kind of awful, but I'm trying to keep a schedule, so here it is anyway. I hope you manage to sit through the whole thing!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/occidqjq
Hello again, Hive, I hope everyone is having a fabulous Saturday!
Today, I'd like to share with you another one of my rough recordings with the fancy mic setup I used in Rough Cuts #2. I was able to get the room mic up high enough that it was off-camera for this recording, and I think it did a better job of capturing the sound overall, but the vocals had a bit less pizazz in the midrange.
My little knock on the guitar, which I usually cut from the videos, is a trick I use to make it easy to synce the video with the audio. The knock makes a nice little peak at the beginning of the track, which makes them super easy to line up:
I'll edit a screenshot in here later, still struggling with the posts on 3Speak...
It seemed weird to cut the messed up beginning after leaving in the knock, and this song still comes in under 3:30 with the mistake left in, so...
Besides, these are supposed to be rough cuts, aren't they?
Hope you all enjoyed! I'm nearing the end of these early videos that I recorded, and can't wait to get to work on something even better to share!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/wxixuvxr
Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another installment of my rough recordings!
This one is really rough, as you'll see. I recoded this using the 'fancy' setup that I described in #2, and of all my rough recordings, I'm most pleased with the sound quality of this one. Of course, that makes it easier to hear all my little vocal mistakes...
Those vocal mistakes are one of the reasons I quit my job in blacktop. Breathing the various forms of dust all day would REALLY mess with my ability to sing (and breathe), as well as causing me some other various health problems.
This is another tune I recorded while home on a lunch break, and it is, as I stated, REALLY rough! You'll notice a cut I made with a dull hatchet, followed by a similar brain fart to the one that caused the cut, at around 4:00. If you listen extra close, you'll also notice that I miss a few chord changes. It isn't perfect, but it still felt good enough to hold on to, edit, and eventually post.
If anyone knows of a Community on Hive where these rough videos would fit in, please let me know! Since I'm not putting these up as contest entries, and don't want to do a 'posted exclusively for...' intro at the beginning, I was asked not to post these in Hive Open Mic, and they're not going to be a good fit for Vibes either.
Is there a Hive Community for posts that are just barely good enough to not throw away? Until I find it, I'll still keep posting these to my blog until I run out of old videos.
In the future, I'll make some with a little more care and polish, which I will then post to Hive Open Mic again.
Thanks for listening, see you all again next week!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/lglemdzh
This is pulled from the same recording session as #1, as you may be able to tell from my look and attire.
I don't have much more to say about it, other than this is one of my favorite songs. Leonard Cohen was an amazing writer, and the world truly has no idea of the depth of our loss without him.
This performance is more in the style of Concrete Blonde, who did a great cover of this song for the "Pump Up The Volume" soundtrack. Great band, great movie. Check them both out if you haven't before.
I hope you enjoy the show!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/dywaodlx
Another quick video shot with 2 cameras, an old Sony Cybershot and a $20 LG Rebel phone.
This is how I would still record, if the Sony camera hadn't died. I really like the audio quality I got from this set up.
I stuck with the video that goes in and out of focus, because the video from the other camera was out of frame.
This was recorded about a year and a half ago, during a lunch break at home.
Linda Perry of the 4 Non Blondes is one of my favorite song writers and performers. I hope you all like my very tame version of one of her most moving songs!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/uzyiqdwr
This was one of my first recording attempts, and by far the most involved.
I used a cheap large diaphragm cardiod condenser mic on a boom (that you can see some of in the video) to record vocals, and also recorded the guitar directly.
In this video, I blended the audio from the video recording along with the direct audio recordings, slightly out of sync for stereo/reverb effects.
I wasn't super happy with the recording, but I didn't hate it. It wasn't good enough to keep going through all the trouble of this set up and mixing. Not only did it take over an hour to set everything up and take it down, but it left practically no room to move around.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/looeasoi
Greeting Hive and 3Speak!
I'm not exactly new to this space, but this will be my first upload of me singing and playing.
I plan on posting a series of videos that I made while trying out different setups for recording audio and video in my office space.
This video and audio was recorded with an old LG phone and an even older Sony Cybershot camera. Blending audio from the two yielded acceptable, but obviously not perfect results. I enjoy the fades from one camera angle to another, but I really need to find someone to run a camera for me at some point.
I like this recording this way because it is quick and easy for me to set this up and start recording. Editing is also quite a bit quicker and easier than when I record separate instrument and vocal tracks.
It isn't great, but it will do. I hope you all enjoy it, because I have several more videos like this (bad recordings of old songs you forgot) to release over the next several weeks.
Follow me or mute me, either way I'll know you watched ;)
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/rbbywqwq
I recently repaired these adorable ornaments, and wanted to post a video of them in action.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/iebrrfdf
Some clips from my first home-heating sized rocket stove build, with hard coded descriptive subtitles.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/atumqfzm
The new hens are growing fast, and becoming a bit more friendly.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/mfzlqwbk
Second and final video on how to process brassica seeds.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=paradoxtma/ymtfinzv
A short video on how to process seeds from brassicas and similar plants. My apologies to the Hive for this duplicate video.