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Author: Topic: Camcorder for high quality music recording?
Ekko
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Posted: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:41PM
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Hi

I'm a musician and I want to do produce some high quality sound and vision of myself playing. The idea is that i would set the camcorder up on a tripod and record my peformance. Then I would transfer the result to my computer (Mac) to edit sound and vision.

I have some profedssional qualtiy mics, so I am looking for a camcorder with an external mic input (ideally XLR).

I don't necessarilly need a lot of fancy gimmicks (I would sooner pay for better recording quality than gimmicks I probably wouldn't use).

Price range up to about £1000, but obviously i want something as inexpensive as possible provided it can produce high quality results in a user-freindly way.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Author: Topic: Re: Camcorder for high quality music recording?
nickscale
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Posted: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:11PM
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There aren't many (at least I don't know of any) camcorders sub-£1000 with XLR inputs... Anybody?

However there are adaptors available to plug XLR into 3.5mm-style mic socket. But you then lose the balanced signal.

Once inside the camera, most cameras record audio at 48kHz so there's not much difference between them there, however some storage formats compress it more than others.

The pro solution is recording to a separate DAT and sychronising in post.
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