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With your budget, I would suggest investing in a few basic lights and decent audio recording equipment.
While a second camera is nice to have, creating production value with the non-picture parts of your films will make them a lot better. If you need to get second or third angle, just move the camera for a closeup and re-run the scene. Sure, it may take ...
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You could try Ableton Live. I have heard of many people using it for live performances. It can play back MIDI and recorded audio, does looping and many other things, so it should meet your needs.
If you are on a budget, you could try Reaper.
Both programs have a free trial, so you can try them both and see which better fits your needs and style.
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THE open source DAW is ardour. It is built on jack, a low latency audio driver daemon, and it has all stuff that you expect in a DAW, multi-track recording/editing/mixing. No windows support though, which shouldn't be a pain for open source enthousiasts, as jack offers support for most well-known audio interfaces.
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To do this properly, you will need the frequency response curves for both your studio monitors and your subwoofer so that you can get the crossover frequency right:
In the above graph, the red curved line is the subwoofer frequency response. The green line is the frequency response of your studio monitors. The crossover frequency is the point where the ...
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As sound waves travel through bone as well as air, of course you will sound different to a recording. When you play back a recording you just won't get any of those sounds transmitted through your skull.
You will be able to approximate the sound by using an equaliser and boosting our cutting frequency ranges - trial and error is your best bet here, as ...
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Score Editors
Free: Muse Score and Denemo are fantastic score editors. windows/mac/linux. They both are good lilypond front-ends. They produce beautiful sheetmusic.
Budget: Harmony Assistant / Melody Assistant (windows/mac)
Audio
Reaper is an amazing DAW. You can record & mix audio and midi. Piano Roll view for midi. no score editor.
free: ...
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I use the Shure SM58 for basically everything at the moment, it's a real versatile mic and would be great for your podcast. Use a wind protector as well though. I've used it for recording voice auio (like a pdocast, some radio tags), micing up bass drums and amps for live shows and even recording samples from randm household objects! It's a great quality ...
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This may sound really obvious, but the main constraint will be how you like your music to sound. If you try to drop a particular frequency range it will change how the music sounds. For example if you roll off the high frequencies it will start to sound like you are muffling the music with cotton wool. Possibly not the effect you want, so the simplest way to ...
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I recommend the Creative Cow web site, specifically, http://forums.creativecow.net/adobeaftereffects. This will serve your need for getting help on AE, but this is not a site for posting to find some one to do the work for you. Hope this helps.
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If you want to detect from where in a room a sound occur you will need to use a technique called triangulation. This will require optimally three microphones which you record calibrated with the same lag (or a known lag, or you won't be able to calculate the accurate position as in a small room as this occurs within a millisecond).
You then use the relation ...
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Radio output in general will be compressed to within a millimeter of its life. With multi-band compression in particular you can boost the loudness a hell of a lot and everything will sound very full.
But, as with everything, it depends:
What you want it to sound like
What the actual requirements are (anyone need anything specific?)
What the source ...
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It comes down to how much control you think you need and how many inputs. If you get a Marantz 660 or Zoom H4n style recorder you get two XLR inputs and control over the levels. If you need more inputs then you need to put a mixer in front of it. Another thing to consider if if you need phantom power to your mics, or if you even need mics and want to use ...
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I can think of three different configurations. Which one you settle on will depend on how often you use the Yamaha and how you use it. Spend a little time searching Google's image search to find some ideas.
Keyboard and mouse in front of the Yamaha on the same surface.
This is a simple and common configuration. It works good if the Yamaha is only ...
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Go old school if possible. These things were indestructible.
I bought a newer version a few years ago but it quickly broke.
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None of us hear our voices as they are. As Dr. mayhem pointed, you hear your voice through bones (and skull is a pretty complicated system with lots of small resonating cavities) and through the air. Have in mind that your ears are behind your mouth so the air part that you hear is mostly reflected around. All that is then filtered by the brain (which is, if ...
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Okay - the one essential our core techy (my lead singer) has bought is a wide range of compressors. Maybe 12 high quality rack compressors now, and he swears by them - they make life a hell of a lot easier when recording, and they are independent of your DAW, which software compressors aren't.
I wouldn't worry about effects until you either find one you ...
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The usual reason for these being external are:
No conflict with internal devices
Size and heat requirements
Requirements for multiple interfaces: midi, spdif, line-in, mic etc
User interface requirements - mixer controls, EQ etc
Occasionally power requirements - an externally powered sound card can provide a lower noise floor, higher quality and dedicated ...
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The GoPro is really more designed as a small, rugged, action camera. It really isn't designed for recording a theater production and you would be able to get much better quality out of any number of camcorders in that price range. You really want something with an optical zoom on it.
Either something like a Canon T3i or T2i would probably handle what you ...
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The biggest trick you will run in to is the 4GB file size limit and the 30 minute record time limit. You will need to monitor the recording and resume several times or use a third party software like Magic Lantern to overcome the limitations. As for battery, there is a DC adapter available that you can buy if battery life is a concern.
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It is actually preferable to record separately, however many bands don't like to do this because they may feel disconnected when recording the first few tracks. A way around this is to record with an area mic with the full band and then begin laying down real tracks off of that. The idea is that each performer will be setup one at a time and then play ...
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The ART SLA4 should meet your needs. Not the cheapest amp around, but it fits in one rack unit and is of high quality.
If that is too expensive for you, just plug in whatever amps you like that aren't. You don't need to run all four channels in one amp.
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Linux... keyboard and mouse... newbie...?
I'll second ananth.p's suggestion to try a tracker -- one of the easier computer music tools. It's essentially a standalone sampling synth / drum machine program with an old-school interface (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_trackers for screenshots and more info). Try MilkyTracker for starters.
If ...
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I used a combination of Audacity and a Samson CO1U USB microphone when I started. From a hardware perspective, that seemed to do the trick. Arranging a useful recording area is vital though, and takes a lot more effort than you might realize. I had success with the Samson, though I noticed that the recording level would vary according to which USB port of my ...
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I think your trouble is partly related to using the overloaded, usually inappropriate word "pro" instead of "broadcast". Marketing departments love using the first word, but when you think about it, that word doesn't describe the type of work, nor the level of quality.
The rest of your trouble may just be unfamiliarity with this kind of hardware, which is ...
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Most stores and malls will use an inline array running at 50/70/100 Volts with a VERY bandpassed signal (probably 300Hz-8kHz, not that much more than the audio bandwidth of a telephone call). This allows the signal to be more easily amplified but sacrifices a good deal of fidelity - the speakers will be designed to reproduce the same frequency range for ...
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I'm assuming that this MacBook does not have a firewire port, so you're limited to USB.
An external soundcard for recording is usually called an audio interface, and you may have more luck searching using this term. I usually start with major site known to carry them, such as Amazon, Musician's Friend, Zzounds, or Sweetwater. There are many such sites, but ...
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I am not certain I understand why you need to shoot a scene for longer than 10 minutes.
Most of the movies I make are under 4 minutes and include up to 30 or more shots some lasting less than a 1/4 second while others may last a minute. I only mention this to give you an idea what I am used to. I have both a camcorder that can shoot as long as there is ...
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As far as I know the Canon 650D is the only Canon DLSR that has full auto focus during video recording. Not sure about the face recognition though.
Do some research on it. If you really like the DSLR look then I think this is the camera for you... especially as you'll be able to use your 85mm and 35mm lenses.
I don't know too much about other camcorders ...
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The 650D (Rebel T4i) does autofocus in video mode, but only with the STM lenses. Currently, there are only 2 STM lenses, a 40mm STM pancake and a 18-135mm STM. I haven't used them, but tests I've seen online show that they have decent autofocus in video mode, but still not up to par with an actual video camera.
This is a good video showing how well the ...
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The answer to where you should start depends a lot on what you mean by "music production." You mention recording, which is one half of the equation. The other half is mixing. Mastering is another option, but is an expensive field filled with experienced professionals doing their magic which even many professional audio engineers don't fully understand.
If ...
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