Capture Audio From Other Device

Ron Lucas wrote on 3/18/2008, 8:26 PM

I want to record myself playing guitar while sitting in front of the computer.

I have my camcorder (Elura 100) connected via Firewire, but I want to record the audio from my M-Audio 2496 sound card where I have the guitar plugged in. This way I get cleaner sound without the background noise.

However, I can't seem to tell Vegas Capture to select a different audio source. It always records audio from the Elura 100.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
Ron

Comments

farss wrote on 3/18/2008, 8:37 PM

Unplug the camera, record to tape.
At the same time record the audio from the M-Audio.
Then capture the tape and sync the audio and vision in Vegas.
If clap before you start and when you finish playing syncing becomes easier. Just make certain the camera records your hands.

Bob.

Ron Lucas wrote on 3/18/2008, 8:41 PM

Bob,

I was hoping I could do this by having vidcap select a different sound card and recording the audio from it. Interesting that vidcap lists my sounds cards, but they are all greyed out.

I'll give your suggestion (great one by the way) a try.

Thanks much!
Ron

Kennymusicman wrote on 3/18/2008, 8:44 PM

You could always go outside vidcap to do what you want. FOr example Amcap (free and standalone) will let you do both like you want - then import it into Vegas to edit and tweak and so forth

TGS wrote on 3/18/2008, 10:40 PM

I do it the way Bob suggests all the time. It's the best way for total control. Besides, if you end up doing multiple takes, like I do, you only have to load the good takes from the camera, the audio doesn't take up much space

If you're really desperate, you could run a headphone output of your guitar signal processor to the mic input of your camera. It may take some experimenting to find the right level of output from the guitar processor for the mic input to be adequate without distorting, remembering that the camera will continually over-compress the signal whether playing quietly or loud (unless you're one of the lucky few that can turn off the compression on your camera).

You could also use another FireWire capture device, like Canopus or Datavideo that has both video and audio inputs and sent the camera video to this via S-Video and audio directly from your signal processor to the audio inputs. Although I don't really know if these devices compress or not. It's not something I can readily hear.
I could do this, but I still prefer Bobs way as the best for audio quality. Especially if I want to do an 8 channel drum capture that I can mix down later.