Here is the second product from our recent recording session Tainted Love.
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This is the one song that we attempted to video in the recording studio.
It is fair to say that we learnt from this that if you want a quality video you need someone else in charge of videoing. You can’t play instruments and video a recording session at the same time. It also needs a lot of time that we did not have as we were always clear that getting good recordings to showcase our playing and repertoire was the priority. And we think we have achieved that.
It is also not a good idea to think that you will get decent video without having at least some lighting when you are in a somewhat womb-like recording studio. You also need a very fast and powerful PC to edit so many tracks of video, otherwise you lose sync between the sound and picture when you edit.
It would perhaps be giving too much away to explain all the tricks we used to try to salvage the video, in addition to some miming after the recording session that we always knew that we would need. After all there is nothing wrong with a retro Top of the Pops vibe!
But while you can do that easily with vocals and the bass, it doesn’t work so well with drums where we had the worst camera failure in the studio. So the video concentrates more on the vocals and horns and rather neglects the rhythm section.
And while we planned to do it in black and white – to match our band photos – giving it a creamy film noir treatment has also helped hide some problems.
But having broken the cardinal rule of band PR to be always positive and upbeat, we think it’s come out OK.
After all the important thing is the music and we are very pleased with these recordings – the video is always a lower priority.
There are three tunes to come which we are busy mixing.