I need to rerecord my comedy set because I’m a little more polished, have updated my act, blah blah blah. I found a couple old DVD’s and remembered why I hate recording. My current DVD (on sale on this site!) is perfect (as perfect as my crap act can be) – good video quality, crowd is great, lighting good. All the other ones before that? Not so much.
My best one previously was recorded at a bar show. The video quality is awful and the server walks in front of the camera four times in 24 minutes. For about seven minutes in the middle, the sound and video are 1.5 seconds off from one another, just enough to be maddeningly horrible. I didn’t catch it at the time, but I’m standing next to a traffic light that changes about every five seconds from red to green to my right. Oh, and I was standing in front of a drum set, no stage. This was the best recording I had until June 25, 2010.
Why is it tough? One time everything was perfect…except no crowd showed up. Another time, I must have known to screw up because I said “like” 15 times. Another show the venue cut my minutes from 25 to 15, which isn’t long enough to record. Oh, and this isn’t counting the corrupted tape and bad cameras that cost me three shows. On second thought, maybe I’ll forget it and go with an audio CD…