Why spend money on something with possibly sketchy audio. if this is for gigs people will judge you on the sound of the band.
My room is tiny at home and I make video work.
Play the songs a few times each then have the video maker move around doing tighter shots of you all. Video is easy to edit together impressively than amateur sounding audio - not that you are amateurs, but going to this for the first time slightly under prepared.
Alternatively work something out with the practice space audio team.
Points taken, Chris. I hear you, nothing like good professional sounding video. But if the audio is clear and you can hear all the players, isn't that going to be good enough for bookers to view short videos or a reel on Instagram or our website?
As to the choice of rooms available at this studio, the problem is the only room they can do multitrack audio in is really small, 400 sq ft to be exact. There's 10 of us, we've played in there before, and believe me it's tight already. We stand around the walls and face inward, and I can't see the videographer having enough room to maneuver very much.
I would like to do another video in that room later on, and set up stationary cameras in front of each player, and then a moving camera.That approach would work well in the small room. An we could do full 32 track hi-quality audio.
Good news for this Sunday is, I've talked to their audio engineer, and he's working with us to get the best we can out of the situation.
Hopefully I'll be able to come back here in a couple weeks with a video that looks and sounds pretty good. Otherwise, I've got some crow to eat.
