Christopher Davis

These videos were taken at Grinnell College with their built in video/audio recording equipment.

I. Recitativo

II. Agitato

III. Elegiaco

IV. Con fuoco

V. Arioso

Recording during a chamber music recital on March 2, 2010. You can also check out an earlier recording of this piece.

I. Andantino

II. Valse

Recording during a chamber music recital on March 2nd, 2010.

Or on facebook (which I think looks/sounds better):

From an earlier recording. But this is with facebook video. Seems like the sound quality is much better.

JS Bach: Lute Suite in a-mi (orig. c-mi), BWV 995 (Christopher Davis, guitar) from Christopher Davis on Vimeo.

Recorded today as a practice run, “performing.” I’ll say this: it’s definitely different playing for a camera vs. playing for nothing. There are a few flubs. Overall I’m happy with the tempos and interpretation, I just wish the entire thing was cleaner. About three weeks until concerts, however, so it should be in good shape by then!

I. Andantino

II. Valse

For this round, I wanted to see how useful the three gain settings on the Zoom Q3 (aff. link) are. Low gain, it seems, is worthless.  Too quiet, unless you were recording a very loud rock group or something.  High Gain and Auto Gain are usable, but pretty much the same. I think auto gain picks up a bit less background noise.

Low Gain:

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High Gain:

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Auto Gain:

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Other Settings

These recordings were made on the PCM 96khz/24bit recording quality. They record as .wav files. After I finished I imported them to Audacity to trim the ends and export them as mp3′s with no EQ or reverb added.

I’m going to follow the same process of using audacity to edit for the rest of my experiments.

The unit was placed about two feet in front of my, right in front of the sound hole.

Recorded during practicing to see see what was going on with my Bach presto. Needs more bass! A few flubs here and there as well.