G9 audio examples
I spent most of my time the last week and a half covering the Alaska State Fair for the Anchorage Daily News. I used the Canon HV20 to produce four videos but opted to use the G9 to capture the audio for two audio slide shows.
For this concert by Anchorage musician Jared Woods, I just left the camera on the stage in ’sound recorder’ mode and picked out a section I wanted to use when I got back. While the acoustics in the bar were terrible (which you can certainly hear), I was pleasantly surprised at how the mic auto-leveled (Note: I converted this slide show to a .mov using the SoundSlides plug-in).
On Saturday I covered the 4-H livestock auction, again using the ’sound recorder’ function on the G9. Though my initial plan was to use my M-Audio, I forgot my headphones in the car (BAD PHOTOGRAPHER! NO D90!) and the unit is just complex enough that I didn’t have total confidence in it without a way to check sound. So with G9 in hand again, I recorded the auctioneer (through the loudspeaker) and one of the exhibitors. The barn acoustics were much better, which is obvious in the final product.