Concert video?

Question

i just went to bamboozle and all my videos sound terrible and my camera just sucks..its a dxg? ive had it forever and i need to upgrade. can someone give some good cameras and some reviews maybe of camera that will take good pics ( with good zoom ) and one that will take okay sounding videos at a concert? im lookinf for anything under 180$-215$ thanks so much

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Answer 1

Sorry to say there is nothing in your budget range that will do what you want.

The reason the audio is so bad is because your camera's built-in automatic audio gain control cannot deal with REALLY loud audio - it clips and sounds muddy.

You need to have manual audio gain control. The least expensive camcorders with this are the Canon HV20, HV30, Sony HDR-HC7 and HC9.

The other option is to get a "field recorder" like those from M-Audio, Zoom, Edirol, Marantz, or Sony (there are many others) and replace the audio from the camera with the audio from the field recorder when you edit on a computer.