Video from tonight's gig

**Gary Blanchard** · 08-15-2010, 03:21 AM

This has been quite a weekend.Three and a half hours at the Westminster Farmer's Market Friday and two hours at Pinecroft Restaurant tonight. This was actually a paid gig.

This video was recorded with my $27.00 Ebay video camera. The vocals are a bit hot. Anyone know how to solve that?

**gibby mcfender** · 08-15-2010, 03:56 AM

How big is the file? I might be able to fix the peaking, but sometimes when audio is recorded so thoroughly peaked, it's not so easily remedied.

Nice playing and singing, Gary! Very pleasant. Side note - that looks like the longest banjo I've ever seen.

**jelloman** · 08-15-2010, 10:12 AM

very nice gary...pleasant, even...

...the vocal peaks appear to be at the same frequecy range so I would say that the issue is with the camera's inability to deal with that freq...

There's a guy I went to college with and worked sound for named Ralph Storm, he lives and works in middletown ny as a violin maker now, who I believe built a banjo for pete seeger...ever heard of him? he does a lot of performing with bluegrass and folk combos on banjo and guitar...

**mosiddiqi** · 08-15-2010, 10:39 AM

Lovely singing and playing Gary!

..sorry, I don't know about fixing the audio, I'm sure the others will though.

**Lino** · 08-15-2010, 07:33 PM

Sweet Gary, I like it

**Gary Blanchard** · 08-16-2010, 01:20 AM

Thanks for the kind words. The camera sat between the speakers, so it may have been too much.

That is a long-neck banjo, first developed by Pete Seeger to allow him to sing more easily in the key of E. The arm does get tired when I do too many songs in a row without a capo.