Hello to all,
I've been trying to record myself playing my new Doubler. I'm wondering if anyone might have some advice for making these recordings. I originally just used my laptops recorder. Terrible sound quality! It's just a Flat sounding , with too many squeaks and squawks, performance. I'm thinking - I know that it's been a long time, but do I really sound that - Monoptone??? It doesn't sound that way to me as I play it. So I went out and purchased A.) a Sony IC UX570 voice recorder. Then I purchased B.) a "blue snowball" Mic thinking that the internal mic may not be cutting it, but that added no improvement.
I DO practice in a small room with rather low overhead - a semi-finished basement room. I'm wondering if that may be adding to the problem??
Another thing I tried is to use a digital camera I've got - a Sony 20 megapixel (not sure of the model) This probably added the best quality I've been able to manage, but still not what I was expecting to hear. I guess recording equipment could add up to $$$$. I probably won't go there .. the whole music hobby is becoming quite expensive for a retiree as myself.
Maybe I'm just hearing a better tonal quality than what I'm actually producing- the old ears don't work as good as they used to either!!
Joe
I've been trying to record myself playing my new Doubler. I'm wondering if anyone might have some advice for making these recordings. I originally just used my laptops recorder. Terrible sound quality! It's just a Flat sounding , with too many squeaks and squawks, performance. I'm thinking - I know that it's been a long time, but do I really sound that - Monoptone??? It doesn't sound that way to me as I play it. So I went out and purchased A.) a Sony IC UX570 voice recorder. Then I purchased B.) a "blue snowball" Mic thinking that the internal mic may not be cutting it, but that added no improvement.
I DO practice in a small room with rather low overhead - a semi-finished basement room. I'm wondering if that may be adding to the problem??
Another thing I tried is to use a digital camera I've got - a Sony 20 megapixel (not sure of the model) This probably added the best quality I've been able to manage, but still not what I was expecting to hear. I guess recording equipment could add up to $$$$. I probably won't go there .. the whole music hobby is becoming quite expensive for a retiree as myself.
Maybe I'm just hearing a better tonal quality than what I'm actually producing- the old ears don't work as good as they used to either!!
Joe
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