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November 25, 2025<\/p>\n

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Some people seem lost in terms of what size of a space is needed.\u00a0 In my home, I am blessed with several playing locations, but I want to discuss the smallest space, my space where I practice and where I make my little videos for recording Free Bass educational tunes from the Borgstom books.\u00a0 I also want to kind of demo the level of quality that this space give me with some different mic placements.<\/p>\n

The two events (playing educational pieces and practicing), benefit from being recorded and I want to discuss this little dedicated space and how it is set up and used.<\/p>\n

FIrst, the size of the loation… it is TINY, we are looking at a size of 82″ deep by 91″ wide.\u00a0 This width and distance is just enough to take my Sony Handycam and capture a height of my waist to top of my head from a seated position.\u00a0 In other words, There is enough room for me to spread wide the bellows for long pulls and we can see from top of my head to my knees… perfect for that “intimately” close feel if I am making practice and educational videos.\u00a0 If left like this, I can use a 16:9 format from the background, which is incidentally the space occupied by 2 doors and a 21″ separation in between them.<\/p>\n

Is this distracting?\u00a0 For this kind of case use, it is, but only slightly and not mission critical.\u00a0 If I want to improve on that, I have a clever idea in the wings that I can discuss a bit later.<\/p>\n

So what is in that 82″X91″ space?\u00a0 Well, a chair with an accordion on it, across from that is an audio interface who’s headphone outputs go straight in to the stereo mic input of the camera. Since the audio goes straight from the audio interface to the camera, there is nothing to post process and nothing to sync (I touch on this more below).<\/p>\n

The space’s depth is limited because there is a wall with the 2 aforementioned doors on one side, and the back of my main computer desk on the other.\u00a0 On top of that desk on this side is a 32″ Samsung television that serves as my main screen for displaying sheet music from the iPad or some free IPTV for those rare times I need some kind of small distraction.<\/p>\n

A fast little hand drawn floor plan looks like this:<\/p>\n

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The above is the GENERAL idea of the basement floor plan, it is not to scale, but it gives a good idea of my setup.\u00a0\u00a0The area of concernis in the top left side.\u00a0 Given a hand drawn blow up of that area gives some dimensions:<\/p>\n

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A view from the camera side:<\/p>\n

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A view of the camera\/audio interface:<\/p>\n

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What am I doing with this setup?\u00a0 Being lazy… lol.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier, the sound is captured from the mics, in to the audio adapter, shot out the headphone output in to the camera’s stereo mic input.<\/p>\n

The results are not optimal.\u00a0 Even if I set the mic to manual levels, there is no way to 100% disable the AGC (automatic gain control).\u00a0 The best that this camera can do is disable all gain for sounds above -21db.\u00a0 That means my quiet sections are pushed up over 21db and then it stops.\u00a0 NOT IDEAL… but for most of my educational videos or practice videos… I don’t care so it is good enough.<\/p>\n

Should I wish to do a serious recording, I simply press RECORD on th audio interface and record that audio in a much higher and cleaner\/clearer quality that I can post process and sync to the file after working on it in post.<\/p>\n

So, what kind of view and sound can we expect from this setup?\u00a0 It sounds just like this:<\/p>\n