Beyond Two-Four

I have for a few years had difficulty finding a good way to record my drums and sync the audio with good quality video. I have a Kodak Zi8, which for about $150, produces good quality HD video. But its sound quality is lacking, so it was either settle for lower quality sound or take a lot of extra time and put the video and audio together on the computer.

Neither option was attractive.

Finally,  there’s another alternative: the Zoom Q3 HD, a pocket video camera that combines both HD video quality and high quality audio that follows in Zoom’s line of pocket audio recorders. It’s the next generation of the blue Zoom Q3, which did not offer HD video.

This device, so far, seems to provide the answer to doing the videos that I like to do: drum samples, lessons, etc.

Here are a few videos — click below for the next page — where I took all my (current) Ludwig snares, each with similar head combinations. Please let me know what you think. I’m posting them all at once, all under the same conditions (room, temperature, mood, lighting, etc.) so you can hear for yourself what each Ludwig snare sounds like. (more…)