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While I was on Samui I shot a video — a full circle around the island. About 50 km. I sped it up to 4 minutes. This is what came out :)

I finally edited the video from my February vacation in Thailand.

It was fun :)

On March 16, Kirpichi celebrated their 18th anniversary at Aurora.

I tried editing a short backstage clip from the soundcheck. I shot 10 minutes, but in the end cut everything down to one minute. Anton, our lighting designer, did a really cool light show at this concert.

The Diablo Swing Orchestra concert from Sweden at Aurora on February 23 was unexpectedly great. Based on the description «metal, operatic vocals, orchestral instruments», I expected some gloomy Scandinavian death metal with summoning Satan. But the band was a very pleasant surprise.

Something very strange happened with the sound, though. It recorded only into the left channel, so I had to fix it, although I checked the gear and everything seemed fine.

Today (well, already yesterday) I filmed The Ghost Inside from the States at Arktika. Surprisingly, the camera microphone held up. The sound on stage is of course completely different, but the result turned out dynamic.

I got back from Thailand. On the way home I had to wait six hours at night at Phuket airport before check-in for my flight started. I was really counting on the Irish pub at the airport, but it turned out it was open only until 11 pm. As a result, everything at the airport was closed except the flight check-in counters. During those six hours I explored all three floors of the airport, shot some video, and even found a power outlet to recharge.

Shot another short video from backstage — the very end of the show. More of a memento really, the gig was great.

It’s been a while since I last shot anything at a gig. Last Friday Italian band Vanilla Sky played at Aurora. The show turned out to be fun. The evening too, but that’s another story :)

With tired, shaky hands, not even seeing whether I’m in focus. Just for the memory :)

Over the weekend I dug up some footage from a year ago. I was filming Sasha Salmin while we were on the road to Moscow. He runs a project called [uho], and I tried to make something in a similar vein — wanted something a bit unusual, as the saying goes. He’s also the host of Record Dubstep on Radio Record. Edited it into a little art-house piece.

This Saturday Delfin played at Cosmonaut. They let me shoot whatever I wanted, wherever I wanted. It’s great when all the photographers get kicked out after the third song and you don’t. They played some rare songs — Door, Hope and Toys. I finally heard Toys live. Twice, even, including soundcheck.

Elysium again. The only band I’ve filmed more than them is probably Delfin. They might be our record-holders for number of shows at Aurora. Although I’ve also filmed them a few times at Orlandos.

The first video is the song «Fly Away» — our lighting guy said it was one of the songs that was going to get the best lighting. Came out pretty, I think :)

First gig video of the season. A great show by Valentin Strykalo.

Video from my July holiday. The route was Saint Petersburg — Riga — Berlin — Barcelona — Porto — Lisbon — Barcelona — Saint Petersburg. Riga and Barcelona were just stopovers. In Lisbon there was the Optimus Alive festival. Music — Slugabed; performances in the video — Zola Jesus, Tricky, The Cure, Radiohead.

Went through the footage from the Est Est Est show on May 25 at Zoccolo. Got 5 full songs out of it. The Reflection video is above; below the cut are 4 new songs (Squirrel Island, Victory Day, Morgunchik, The Parfenovs) — some of which will be released this autumn on an EP, the rest in the spring on a new album.

Dimmu Borgir — a Norwegian band playing symphonic black metal. Hellish stuff :)

The foreign ones really know how to put on a show.

Finally sorted through everything from Royal Hunt.

The crazy, awesome, cheerful Za! from Barcelona. The most memorable performance at the whole SKIF.

A birthday present for @theproof from Dasha and me. I put a lot of effort into it: ran around, made arrangements, tracked people down, and laughed myself to death while editing. Happy birthday, Vanya :)

The idea was simple: birthday greetings for Vanya from his favorite musicians. By coincidence, it was he who introduced Dasha and me to the music of all the musicians who took part in the video. With the possible exception of Psikheya — the credit there goes to @stay_positive. I was really glad that the guys who appeared in the video so readily agreed to participate. They are all listed in the credits. Hooray!

I should stop recording audio through the camera's microphone. It really doesn't come out very well.

Finally got around to the video. It was a great concert.

Elektricheskie Partizany, Brigadny Podryad, F.P.G.

I am not going to record sound near the stage anymore. Especially when there are live drums. I tweaked it as best I could, but I still do not like how the sound turned out.

An insanely awesome concert, tons of positive energy, a very cool musician :)

Rock and roll from Deep Purple's vocalist (more precisely, he was the singing bassist). The last song has audio from the built-in Canon 60D microphone with the recording level limited. It does sound rough, though, because I was filming at stage level from the side — there you get hammered by the drums from the kit itself rather than from the speakers, and everything else comes from the monitors and amps.

That was a great concert. At the time it seemed to me to be one of the best ever held at Aurora.

This weekend a friend asked me to come down to a studio and help shoot a clip for her university project. The theme — travelling. It’s something like a promo for their exhibition. The original idea didn’t work out, so in the end we just shot whatever was around. The result turned out funny and amusing, and the music was picked on my suggestion. I should shoot more. Result:

Camera: Sergey Armodin
Editing and post: Nadia Silver and Kira Kornienko
Music: Clint Mansell (Moon OST)

My Rode Stereo VideoMic couldn’t handle loud gigs and was clipping the sound. On Tuesday I became the proud owner of a great little device, the Zoom H4N.

I won’t bother describing what’s great about it — that’s all over the internet. I’ll just say the recording quality is excellent. And, most importantly, it copes brilliantly with concerts. To put it through its paces I went straight to a show at Orlandina, where the German band WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER were playing yesterday. They play heavy stuff, so the recorder was thrown straight into the deep end of a loud, heavy gig.

In the recorder’s settings there’s a COMP/LIMITER option — as I understand it, that’s a set of presets for recording. I shot a video at the show with audio from the recorder. It’s in two parts. The first I recorded with the LIMIT2 (CONCERT) preset and a manual recording level (level 8 out of 100). I’m not too happy with how that came out. The second part used the LIMIT3 (STUDIO) preset — even at home it makes the sound cleaner and more pleasant. I left the recording level on AUTO. I like the result much better.

Either way, the way the audio came out at a gig like that is a strong sign that the device records very respectably. I think I’ll stick with it.

From the start of the video up to 9:43 it’s LIMIT2 (CONCERT) and recording level 8; from 9:43 to the end it’s LIMIT3 (STUDIO) with auto recording level. Result:

Tried a bunch of different mic settings at a show. The best combination — the -10 dB switch on, with the foam windshield fitted (turns out it doesn’t just protect from wind, it also helps against overload). Sadly, I still couldn’t get perfect sound, even though the gig was pretty loud. But it’s a lot better than the first attempts. The drums still get clipped in places.

I also lowered the recording level on the camera itself in the settings. Around 50% gives better sound. Going lower just makes the final video quieter without removing the clipping. Here’s the result:

I’ll keep filming at other gigs and figure out how to better isolate the mic acoustically so everything records cleanly.

Decided to get an external microphone for my Canon 60D DSLR, to record video at concerts with decent sound. After a bit of googling and brainstorming with @theproof, the focus settled on RODE products.

The mic is for a DSLR, so it has to have a hot-shoe mount to clip onto the camera. We figured: if we’re buying a mic, get one from a company that specialises in them, which RODE seems to be. The various Nikon/Sony mics were dismissed straight away. RODE has a fairly broad range. Within budget, the candidates were the condenser RODE VideoMIC and the RODE Stereo VideoMic. From the names it’s clear the first one records mono (and is also indecently long). The second one records stereo, which I like a lot more.

The mic needs its own power from a 9-volt battery, which is more of a plus than a minus — it won’t drain the camera battery. On a 9V it can run for about 60 hours, which is fine unless you’re shooting around the clock.

It connects to the camera via a 3.5 mm jack. It has three switches (it took me a moment to realise they’re switches — at first I thought they were buttons):

The left switch lets you cut the recording level by 10 dB, which is what you want when recording something loud — say, a concert (which is exactly what I’m planning to do). The middle switch is on/off. The right one, when on, reduces high-frequency noise — for example, traffic noise.

It also comes with a fluffy windshield for outdoor use in windy weather.

As usual, I didn’t read the manual or any tips. Just stuck it on the camera and went off to a show. Shot two videos. The audio came out clipped in places — I didn’t flick the -10 dB switch and I didn’t lower the recording level on the camera (recommended is 75%). For the record — it was a gig by two Japanese artists, Tezya and ASAKI. The internet calls it Future Glam Rock — for teenage girls, basically. It was in the small hall at Orlandina.

Resulting video:

Tomorrow I’ll try recording sound at the Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii show with proper settings.