Hello and welcome to how to record better sound at concerts
all right, so let's dive right in so if you ever filmed a
concert life music or any type of loud sound with your cell phone or
point-and-shoot camera
You probably noticed that the sound isn't the best so I'm going to show you two ways to
Get better sound and the first way is very simple
so as you see here what I have set up are the things that you're going to need so persisters some tape and
an old t-shirt or
any type of light fabric will work and
This will work for cell phones too, but for this example. I am showing you a
Point-and-shoot camera, so what you want to do is on the point of shoot camera or your cell phone
Locate where the mic is
So it's usually a couple of holes or one hole depending on
What type of device you have your pointer shoot or your phone?
for this camera
There right up at the top so once you locate that what you want to do is you want to take a
Piece of cloth that you're going to cut out take a pair of scissors
And you just want like a little a small piece something small just to cover up that hole
And you can use any type of light fabric you don't want something, that's too thick
So what you want to do, let's take a very small piece like this
Okay, so once you have it. I'm gonna take a piece of tape
Okay
Now put the tape on the cloth
Now what you want to do is you want to block off those three holes
Like this
Okay, so essentially this is what its gonna look like
And that should
Give you a better sound
Right away because it's gonna block out a lot of the low frequencies, and then you kind of win. It's not the best option
And it's not gonna be the best sound you can even adjust it further into an editing program
But it will be better than just having the mic wide open
Okay, so that was
part one now
We're going to go into part two and get a little bit more detailed
Which sound?
method number two
involves
Getting a camera that lets you adjust the audio in this case. This is a Canon t3i
and most Canon DSLRs
If you're kind of purchase one will give you the ability to adjust
Sensitivity of the mic and you can do this if before you purchase a camera
Sony Panasonic
Higher-end DSLRs will give you the ability to adjust a mic level
Alright for this example. It's Canon t3i, so let me show you how to get in there so if you're going to record a concert
This is how you set up the sensitivity of the mic
We're gonna go right into the menu system
It's on the back turn on the camera
Okay, just ignore that this is for the somewhat using the lungs comes with the camera
So here we go
I'm going to go into menu
It's now that you're in a menu system, I'm gonna scroll over
All what you want to do, also is you want to you want to be on your dial
On your dial you want to have it set to to the movie
icon so or the little camera icon
You want to set that to the camera icon alright?
So once you have it set to that I
Want to go into the menu
You want to find
Sound-recording
Manual
Hey, you're gonna push set
Again that opens up this
Dialog right here, so you can see
It's actually showing you
the mic level
So by default that's gonna be right in the middle so if you see that what you want to do is you want to?
Scroll down with this key, so you're gonna go from manual and bring it down here. Okay, so once you have it down here
You want to set it so that it highlights it
So once it's highlighted now. You can start bringing down the level now you're gonna notice how the bars are gonna get smaller and smaller
So you keep pushing that pushing that?
Until you get ideally what I test it out with when I'm shooting concerts
When I go all the way down to the end at the end knowledge you're completely silent so you want to bring it up to
Not so you're gonna. You're gonna click twice and you're gonna set it all right so once it's done
It's set it goes back to that now you see the level has gone down quite dramatically
Now for concert this will help out the sound a lot, so you actually get yes
You're gonna get decent sound if you set it like this so if the sensitivity all the way down to one or two
And that'll make a big difference
Alright so if you want to get even more advanced with your sound although
Bringing this to a concert it's going to be very visible, but you could add a microphone
so if you bought a camera
It has a mic input. It's even better so let me show you how to set this up for
Your Canon, so we've been using that once as an example
Okay so on the cannon
You have is the side
Down here's where you're gonna find your mic, and it's even labeled on the bottom says mic so what you want to do
This is me. It's made for a hot shoe. So you can just fit it right in here on
The top, and you just want to
Plug your mic
Right in there like so
So this is what it looks like on the top
Okay
It's plugged in
Then you want to turn on the mic
So turn on the mic
Okay, and the same method applies you have it on the movie setting movie icon
It's the same same thing I'm gonna go into menu
And - sound recording
Okay, so as you can see it's picking up
See the little screen that's picking up my my voice
So what you want to do go to manual?
go down to
recording level
and recording level
All you want to do is
Bring it down down down down down
Now with a mic external mic now you can probably get away with leaving it at like three
so you leave it at three and you're ready to go obviously this is more expensive way and it actually adds a
little bit more weight to your camera
so it's a little bit more advanced, but the same met that applies to
your recording
So that's it those are three ways to
Get the better audio at concerts or in Lao situations I
Hope this was helpful, and if you got any further questions
Feel free to comment or send me a private message, and I'll be happy to help you out
Thanks a lot for watching this and I appreciate all your support