The DarKside Studio staff took a road trip, Down to the Crossroads, Clarksdale, Mississippi, for the 8th Annual Juke Joint Festival and Frisco and I had a really good time and caught some great video using the Flip Ultra HD. I am getting a better feel on judging the distance between me and decent audio.

The Flip Ultra HD video recorder captures incredibiley good visual. You will see the Flip at it's best outdoors. The sunsets are spectacular and the audio is sensitive enough to pick up a squirrel munching on a peanut from about four feet away, (and not directly in front of the squirrel either).

When filming bands, cymbals are a challenge upclose, but not near as damaging to sound quality as being to close to the spearker system, which, I guess, can be said about any video recorder not specifically designed to capture a live band up close, (such as the Zoom Q3).

Overall, we had a really good time at our first Juke Joint Fest and look forward to making another. Here is one of the videos filmed at, Club Ground Zero. It's Cedric Burnside, and he does an excellent drum solo. I was fairly close to the stage, but behind the speaker system.

CEDRIC BURNSIDE: BITCH YOU LIE (killer drum solo)