flyingveepixie

Don't know if I'm too late in chiming in here but here goes anyway..... I currently have 8 albums on commercial release. Officially they are available on Bandcamp, itunes, Amazon, Spotify and most of the other better known streaming sites. That's all well and good and completely under my own control, however on a quick google search I can find my albums for sale as mp3 downloads on many unsavoury websites over which I have no control and from which I receive no royalties. Most of these I have found to be located in Eastern Europe or Russia - none in China so far - and in spite of my efforts I cannot get them to remove my albums from their websites sites, even using threats of legal action. The truth is that regardless of copyright rules or registration as the owner of a given work, there are people out there who couldn't care less and will steal your music to sell for their own benefit and they know that there is literally nothing you can do to stop them. It's a fact of life which every musician has to put up with. I even have some friends who have self released work on Bandcamp as a free download but have still found their work actually for sale on dodgy Russian websites - truth. My philosophy on this is to simply accept what I cannot change and consider that even if I am not getting the royalties I rightfully should be getting from album sales, at least there are some people out there who are listening to and appreciating my musical efforts. Small consolation in the grand scheme of things but it's all we can really hope for.

Hey Steve, I'm a complete newbie to the video world and I've been trying to get to grips with this too and so far the best I've come up with is to sync my guitar up to Logic to record the audio part I want to play on the video while standing in front of my iphone to record the video. As you say syncing the audio and video parts together is the biggest issue and I've found that the best way (so far) is to find the matching peaks on both audio and video tracks and get them as close together as possible manually. It's not perfect but it works reasonably well and you can see the results on my yuotube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcKFzYcjpntlmURPipH01Ew?view_as=subscriber I think there is probably some way to do it and get the two things in sync using the midi time clock but I haven't figured that out so far...It's a learning curve. Soundwise I don't know how your idea would work out if you're planning on playing over a track which already has an existing bassline in it unless you can somehow get the level of the original right down below the noise floor so that it doesn't come through in your recording. I don't know how you would do that....