Settings / equip to record LOUD and DARK environment?

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Hi - I'm an amateur and just learning both the HVX200A and video work in general. I'm recording my band's (rock/blues - it will be loud) gig this Thursday at a fairly large (300 person) venue and was hoping to get some input as to settings to consider... questions:

1. I recorded another gig once and the sound levels (from the built-in mic) were all overdriven. Is there a setting to help this? or something else I should do?

2. Or, is it just necessary that I use a different mic system? I have a nice bode condenser mic I could plug-in via XLR (or a couple just regular Shure mics) if that is better? Do I need something to lower the input volume (like a mixing board) ... which I don't have, I'n afraid.

3. At the last gig, the room was fairly dark but the HVX200A did a pretty good job with the low-light. I specifically bought the 200A over the 200 for this feature set since I knew I'd record gigs. But I did NOTHING to set anything differently on the camera ... should I have? Is there anything I should set in order to help the low light features even further?

Thanks so much in advance...
 
and the sound levels (from the built-in mic) were all overdriven. Is there a setting to help this? or something else I should do?
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NO. not AND have any useful volume as well... you wont get ANY mic thats capable of handling live band sound for less than about $700
i use the shure vp88. its right at about $800.
 
Here is a link to a LOUD concert that I shot with all HVX200s.

http://www.spec-comm.com/eventsSpeaks.html

Sound: We couldn't get good sound with the onboard mics with a show this loud. We tried. No use. We talked really nice to the guy at the sound board and he gave me a stereo feed that I hooked up to the wide camera that was locked down. It worked out pretty good. The ideal thing to do is if the house has a 24 track HDD recorder to purchase the raw tracks from him in the end. You have to work this out in advance but if you're going to do any sort of distribution then you don't want to end up with a live mix.

Look: We set all three cameras shutters to 1/30 and were just carful not to do too many whip pans. If needed, we bumped up the gain a bit too but not too much. It will really depend on your venue in the end though.

Other than that, just have a lot of fun! :)

Andrew Hoffman
 
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