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Live recordings?

Discussion in 'Tilted Entertainment' started by genuinemommy, Jan 27, 2025.

  1. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    The Livestream broadcasts of the events that I have sung are all terrible.
    Perhaps I need to be better at using a microphone?

    I just... Wonder what I am doing wrong.
    As I listen to various artists some live performances are amazing while others are terrible, for the same individuals. Starting to realize the sound engineers behind the setups and recordings make a massive difference. I should know this already because I have worked lighting and sound for events... But yeah. Didn't expect it to impact my self confidence so much as a vocalist.

    I thought everything sounded fantastic from our most recent event. Our blending was great in person. But listening to the recording it's just not there.

    This is mostly me rambling. But maybe there are tools or tutorials folks can point me towards so we can have better recordings.
    Maybe there are post production processes that we could use from existing footage?

    Thanks for commenting.
     
    Last edited: Jan 27, 2025
  2. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    Though I’m not an expert on livestreaming such events, I do know that the quality of the audio on the stream often doesn’t represent the audio as it sounds live. Aside from the microphone and sound mixing, the equipment used to broadcast, the upload speeds available (due to internet upload speeds, equipment limitations, and streaming service capabilities/settings) all have a huge impact.


    It is quite possible that you sounded delightful in person, but there were limitations in equipment, uploading, or the streaming service, that throttled back the quality of the sound for those on stream.


    I say this because I’ve experienced it many times. Since the pandemic we’ve seen a lot of folks stream weddings, funerals, and other events. We’ve attended quite a few virtually. Often the sound available on the stream was limited, while friends we have that attended in person said it sounded great for those in the room. Perhaps that is what happened here.
     
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  3. pig

    pig Slightly Tilted Donor

    I concur with @Borla on this - when it comes to live music, mixing and engineering is pretty tricky but y'all probably sounded great.

    Translating that to a recording is a whole different issue - I put together a very basic home recording thing at the house and it's astonishing how hard it is to get decent sound out of the mics. I run them through a rudimentary mixing board that I push to my laptop running Audacity. There are video analogs of Audacity out there, and in mac space I've been told Garage Band works really well. I've never been able to really get the hang of it.

    How did y'all record it?
     
  4. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    I have not seen the computer running the Livestream. It's in a room that I don't have access to. I should look into it. They stream it to YouTube.
     
  5. pig

    pig Slightly Tilted Donor

    Ah! So y'all played and it was streamed to youtube and that stream didn't sound correct. There's so many things in there that could mess it up it's hard to say.
     
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  6. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    most AV stuff in churches are very bad for music because they are cheap and meant for speaking amplification not singing and music.

    what I noticed is that most churches are just using different mics for the streaming audio instead of passing the soundboard to the stream.
     
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  7. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    My wife directs a children's school choir (that sounds much more Ooh! than it really is) & sings in another church choir. I wonder how much she knows about how they stream the performances?
     
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