Hey guys. Just an update. I've been back and forth to the chiropractor the last little while trying to fix an issue with my upper back. Apparently I have bone spurs in my neck and a slipped disk applying pressure to a nerve, which is causing shooting pains and numbness down my left shoulder and arm. I normally wouldn't even mention it but it keeps lingering and I don't know how long it'll be before I can make my next video. In the meantime, I'll be laid up taking meds for the pain and applying ice packs and heating pads, watching the news about this helicopter crashing into an airliner, which is looking more and more deliberate with every new camera angle. I guess things could always be worse. Counting my blessings.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
