From the course: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
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Recording a musical performance
From the course: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
Recording a musical performance
Now when you're recording a live musical event, the first thing that's very important that you do is show up early. Make sure you get set up, hook up all of your equipment. A big concern with these type of events are buzzes and hums, weird audio things, your line levels may not match. If there's going to be a problem when you're shooting an event chances are, 80% are greater as far as I am concerned, that it's going to be an audio problem. So you don't want to show up 10 minutes before a show and hook everything up only to discover that you have a crazy buzz or something else going on that you can't correct, so that's the first thing. Engineer just showed up, the musical guy setting up inside, and we went to go plug in and we discovered, for whatever reason, the signal coming out is not working properly going into our camera, so we're getting a lot of buzz. The only thing he's got out is a little quarter inch to XLR and it's not really working for us. So we're going to have to…
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