recording?

[mudmovers]

Hi all,

I'm new to the V drums, drooled after them for a long time now. Been playing drums for about 12 years now. I'm average I would say, not a phenom like some... I just love to play. I play for the band at our church and love it, and for bascially all of those years my kit has been at the church, and I've only been able to practice when we're having our actual practice, so not a lot of time to play to just play around. I finally got a set of V drums for home, and now get to practice when I can (2 kids..lol!). So my question is this,

How do you guys record yourselves? Does your kit have a line that goes into your camera? I see a lot of computers next to the kit sometimes, but the audio is usually not the best on those, so I'm curious how you guys do it. I would love to record myself not only to share with friends that we don't see often, but also to be able to hear myself and what it sounds like so I can evaluate and get better. I have only heard myself once and that was a pretty crummy recording. (we don't mic the drums at church, so the playback has everything from the sound system except me!).

Anyways, thanks for any input on how you do this. I appreciate it, and really enjoy hearing your guys drumming... Its inspiring.

Take it easy!

Jon

[mdadmin]

Hello and welcome!

I recorded the V-drums out to the computer while recording the visuals with the camera (which also caught audio of me hitting the pads). I then used Windows Movie Maker to import the video. Next, I muted the audio track that was part of the camera and added another audio and imported my V-Drums audio to it. Then I zoomed up on the audio and moved it around until it sync'd up with the video.

The next step was more painful as I tried to convert the video into a reasonable format to work with YouTube.

I've only done it once, so I'm sure the other folks will have some tips. If I do another video, I'd probably end up buying some decent software or something... I just didn't find Windows Movie Maker to be very good... it was slow and painful.

[toekneebullard]

I spent two weeks trying to video tape and record separately, and then match them up.  Everything works fine until I compress the video, and then the audio goes out of sync.  I think I've given up on trying to make a video.

As for recording yourself to audio, This forum is a pretty good place to figure it out: http://www.minusdrums.com/smf/index.php?board=10.0

[davegoode]

I use a laptop with sony Vegas pro 8 for the audio and if I'm doing video I just sync it up(after importing video to laptop) with the camera audio
and mute or lower the levels of the camera audio at mixdown.The converters are decent in vegas ,so my main problem is having the time to bring my playing level up to Tony and Ken's tunes....Just for recording for your reference you could get a
minidisc recorder or digital recorder and a stereo mic and small line mixer and do some decent live recordings.

[griever]

Yeah I made the video's like Ken.  Although I used Sony Acid to record.  Put the minusdrums song into acid, play along to it and record while having a digital camera record me.  Put both the mixed mp3 and video file into windows movie maker and synch it up.  I use the cymbal hits as an indicator where to synch the video and music mostly and it seems to work pretty well.

[mudmovers]

Cool, thanks for the replies guys... (sorry it took me so long to reply back, its hectic at home with two kids under 4 yrs old!)  It sounds complicated, but not impossible. My wife has a digital camera that can do video, so I just need to look into the software to put on my computer to record the audio out of the V drum module, and I have widows movie maker so that part shouldn't be too bad. Thanks again for the input, I appreciate it!

Jon