An inventory of this organist's recording equipment

^{The finished product, using some of the equipment below}

Hello Steem friends,

I thought it would be a good idea to share with you the equipment I use to create my recordings. The video above (one of @organduo's compositions!) used three camera angles. I could actually have up to five camera angles, but it creates a lot more work post production and not to mention hard drive space.

Audio Recorder: Tascam DR-05

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I've had this recorder for almost 10 years now. It's a workhorse and very affordable. Although I don't use this when using Hauptwerk (virtual organ), I take it when I record on real pipe organs. You'll see some videos on my blog on a pipe organ and the audio was captured using this.

Main camera: Zoom Q4N

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This is a very good portable camera with excellent audio—though the audio captured very close to the source isn't helpful in terms of pipe organ recording (hence I place the Tascam down in the church nave and sync up later). I turn the microphones in the XY position so it can record my contest announcements clearly (XY means the audio capture is focused).

Secondary camera: Zoom Q2N

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This is the model below the Q4N. I take this out to church services because it's very compact and can run off standard AA batteries. At my home studio, I use it as the pedal camera angle.

Extra cameras: SJCAM SJ4000

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I have three of these action cameras to record angles such as my face, close to the keyboards and audience view. I don't use all three very often because the amount of work that is required to sync them all up in post production. If there was a very special event, I would bring all the big guns out for a spectacular video production.

Microphone Boom Stand

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Not for karaoke but to record an overhead view of the keyboards. Works surprisingly well, cheap and easy to obtain.

Joby Gorilla Pod

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I have a couple of these to use with the action cameras and also the camera used to capture the pedal angle.

Standard Tripod

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Nothing fancy, just a stock standard tripod. Any will do. Also used for the lighting (below).

Power Banks

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I have three Xiaomi powerbanks used to power all my devices. This way I don't have to worry about finding power sockets. The power banks have two usb ports each, so having three is enough. They even power my additional lighting (below).

Additional Lighting

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In some churches, the light is quite poor especially around the organ console. I use these to illuminate the console as well as giving a better recording picture (dual purpose!). The video below is an example of using this lighting.

^{(All product images sourced from Amazon)}

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