Hi folks,
I hope the good people of the mandolin cafe are keeping well and managing life ok in these challenging times?
I'm really missing playing with other people as I'm sure many others here are too. The only collaboration I've done since lockdown was a couple of weeks ago, when a project that I'm involved with ("Mirk on the Irk", a fusion of klezmer and Irish music https://www.klezmerirish.com/) decided to do a recording.
It was really great to do this, a friend lent me a zoom h5 to record the sound as my results on laptop weren't great. I was really pleased and inspired by the results and the quality/simplicity of zoom products. A few years ago, I flirted with the idea of getting a home studio, but as I use a computer all the time with work, I decided that I preferred my music hobby to be as "analogue" as possible - all about wood, strings and friendship, not "techie" stuff. The home recording people that I knew were all into getting obscure bits of equipment, and that world doesn't appeal to me.
Since lockdown, I've seen people putting up videos with multiple tracks recorded independently, and the recent recording has inspired me to try and give this a go and put some mando/guitar duets with myself and any other folks who want to on t'internet. I don't want to get loads of fancy gear, but I've bought a zoom q8 audio/video recorder which I'm optimistic will allow me to do this fairly easily.
My problem with this is that whilst I can create single videos of me playing, I'm presuming that I need some kind of editing software to be able to mix the sound of two recordings and video together and thought that this would be a good place to ask if other people have experience of this and could recommend simple software/tips to be able to do this effectively?
Thanks for any suggestions, and I will post the results on mando cafe when they're done!
cheers,
Paul
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