Cyber-Acoustics lapel mic.

model CVL-1124R-US

You can get them on Amazon used for under 5$.

Ah, a chance to get in a little payback for your help with that chinrest.  LOL

Just roll with it, Oliver.

Sometimes you find a piece of gear that just loves your instrument, room or voice.  It might not actually even sound good with anyone else's setup.  It is just one of those odd quirks of gear, may as well be magic.

All you can do is smile and add it to your list of good days.  Oh, might want to pick up a couple spares while they're still cheap/available.  Backups are always good.

I use an old XP machine that never sees the net as well, Oliver, but for my digital studio.  For analog recording and etc, I use a bigger newer computer that I built from parts and have in "the music corner" of my kitchen. 

My digital studio is just for the midi and sequencers and etc.  My XP machine there is an old IBM that isn't quite stock though.  It was given to me because it was "junk" somebody was going to throw out.  But after putting in maximum ram chips, making sure it had a good air channel and putting in a quieter and bigger fan, it runs like a champ.  I also put in a modified SoundBlaster card, since it sounded better than the one on the motherboard. 

But the real reason I still keep an XP machine as a separate studio for digital (and mixdown, mastering and post-production) is Cakewalk, Audition, and FruityLoops, as well as a few others.  I paid for that software and it works good, dagnabbit.  It just irked me to lose it and have to buy new software just because it wouldn't run on Vista or whatever.  I also had gotten real sick of removing viruses, so that machine doesn't touch the internet.  I even pulled the modem and ethernet cards out of it.

Like I said, though.. not *quite* stock anymore.  LOL

Oliver: I never much got into adjusting by cents.  I usually just compose in something convenient, then use the midi file to drive samples and adjust the tuning on the samples to whatever I need.  Crude, but it gets the job done well enough for me.  LOL

But even the Audacity can adjust in fractions of 1/100th of a semitone or 1/1000th of cycle per second with just the default version.  So it is certainly possible to at least do it in some way after rendering to wav or mp3 or whatever.

NV: Well, some of the software can take a bit to learn.  But I wouldn't say more than you had to learn to use a computer to be online and getting around, really.

I learned it the easy way.  I took classes in college for both analog and digital studio.  That is another reason I have two little studios instead of one bigger one.  I got used to thinking and working that way.

But just to make things sound better, like the recordings you do for here?  Yes.  Certainly you can.  For example, you could use software (I don't know your computer, so I can't just say which software offhand) to split the audio off the video, and then take it into some other piece of software so you could adjust the eq, add a little bit of reverb to give it a feeling of a room with better acoustics, or whatever else you wanted.  When you have it so you like it better, then you can combine it back with the video. 

Or you might record yourself playing one part of a duet, and then record the other part while listening to the first part that you recorded.  Or even a quartet, if that was what you wanted.

The actual video, I do not know much about editing.  But there is also software for that, it would just take learning it if you decided that was something you wanted to be able to do.

There are lots of things you can do these days.  Almost any computer that people use to be online these days can do things that would have needed a recording studio years ago.  It takes some software and then taking some time to learn to use it.  Sometimes it takes a bit of hardware, but nowhere near what it would have back 20 years or more ago.

In many ways, it is a wonderful time to be a musician.