losthighway wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:22 am - Are your Reaper bounces of the audio somehow different in length? If I render a song in a DAW and the file is milliseconds longer I'd never care. That could botch a good looking sync with a video.

- IMovie is easy and handy, but too dumb for your technical demands? DaVinci resolve is free, sophisticated, huge learning curve but has an online community, forums and youtube videos to teach us. So kind of like Reaper for video.

benadrian wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:55 am I am one of those guitarists who has turned into an old dude that constantly plays with their volume knob to adjust distortion/saturation. However, I am constantly driven a tad crazy by the tonality changes of adjusting the guitar volume knob. I have messed around with bright cap/resistor networks across the volume pot and they never really help. I have also tried using a volume pedal with a buffered input (or after a buffered pedal), and just never touching my guitar. I'm pretty bad with my feet, though.

Because of this, I'm having some impure thoughts.

Active pickups! Wow, Ben, WTF? Active pickups send a high current / low impedance signal out of the guitar. Generally, the pots are changed for lower values.This results in (almost) no change in tone that would normally come from the high impedance, high pot value, and long cable capacitance interactions. Still, this seems like bringing a flamethrower to an arm wrestling match. So... what else?

Well, how about a buffer? I need to do a proof of concept test, but I believe that a good buffer, placed between the volume knob out and the output jack inside the guitar, could solve the volume-knob-circuit-interaction tone change. Has anyone done this? Does anyone know a good, low current buffer circuit? Is this dumb? Should I just suck it up and realize that no one cares but me?

My next plan, for the record, is to take a ZVEX SHO pedal and hook it to my strap... see if that changes anything.

But I'm listening. Thoughts?

penningtron wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:52 am I've been having issues with video/audio sync'ing lately. Sometimes I'll export the video's audio into Reaper for eq, compression etc and when I recombine them back in iMovie they no longer sync across the whole song. The Thru Zero flange was kinda cool once but it's just pissing me off now.

Is there something about video processing that can alter the time of a file? I can't figure where else it could be coming from.

Owen wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:25 pm I don't have any solutions at the moment, but I want to say, I SO wanted to be a guy that just messed with my volume knob to get the right saturation, but failed miserably and was just never happy doing it + felt awkward on stage. I wanted to simplify, but in trying that I just wasn't getting what I wanted. So now my board is basically a tuner, 3 different gain stages (that are all friendly with each other after a lot of trial and error; one of those pedals stays on 90% of the time, leaving me with only two big foot switches to hit), a delay, and reverb. Here's to finding a solution that works for you!

dfglv wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:15 pm

penningtron wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:52 am I've been having issues with video/audio sync'ing lately. Sometimes I'll export the video's audio into Reaper for eq, compression etc and when I recombine them back in iMovie they no longer sync across the whole song. The Thru Zero flange was kinda cool once but it's just pissing me off now.

Is there something about video processing that can alter the time of a file? I can't figure where else it could be coming from.

i've done some amateur digital video stuff (capturing VHS footage of my dude's [mid 90s] band before the tapes disintegrate) so i don't really know what i'm talking about, and I specifically haven't done anything with video in Reaper, sorry, but I would suggest doublechecking the video media item properties once it's imported into Reaper. Is there any chance it's importing the footage and imposing an incorrect frame rate?

Kniferide wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:24 pm This is endemic across digital video and we can't figure it out. We Record video straight from camera into Atmos Shogun Video recorders and if you take those files and drop them into Premier or Resolve, over the course of about an hour and a half the sync will drift by about 30 frames. Sometimes more. We cannot make sense of it and have not found a solution other than to just take a slate at the top of the take, and the end of a take and use it to sync up the audio in post.

penningtron wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:35 pm

Kniferide wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:24 pm This is endemic across digital video and we can't figure it out. We Record video straight from camera into Atmos Shogun Video recorders and if you take those files and drop them into Premier or Resolve, over the course of about an hour and a half the sync will drift by about 30 frames. Sometimes more. We cannot make sense of it and have not found a solution other than to just take a slate at the top of the take, and the end of a take and use it to sync up the audio in post.

Oh geez, I just thought it was my podunk methods. Guess I might need to zoom in every 30 seconds or so, cut out small chunks of video, and re-sync from the splice spot. Sucks.