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I need to do some home A/V recording. I know that a number of folks here do that very well. I don't want to become an expert A/V engineer, I just want to do some simple recordings. How can I do it?

What I want to do. Someone is sending me several backing tracks. I want to play live to it and record it on audio and video, then send the completed track back to the sender. It's not a professional recording thing, this is just for the purpose of analyzing and discussing the content. So I need to lay down the backing track, the track of me playing over it, and video of my playing over it. Then send the whole mp4 or similar file back to the sender.

What I have. I have a meh AKG condenser mic with XLR connectors that needs phantom power. I have a PreSonus Quantum 2626 interface. I have a MacBook Pro. I have headphones and in-ear monitors. I have Adam Audio bookshelf monitors. As for software, I have a DAW (ProTools) that I don't know how to use, and iMovie that I barely know how to use (Boomer level technical capability, here. Think of your grandmother hooking up a stereo system). I have an iPhone.

What I do NOT have. Other than my iPhone, I don't have a video camera or lighting.

The Big Question Given the above, and given that I want it as plug and play as possible and don't want to have to study for 16 weeks to learn how to do this, what additional equipment do I need, and what do I need to do with it?

Thanks. I'm guessing that the answers will make me want to give up in despair and throw my trombone in the ocean, but I figure it's worth a shot.

Simple solution is to play the backing track on your speakers and play along with it whilst recording it as a video on the iphone . You can improve on the iphone mic by using an iRig Pro audio interface which will power your AKG .It works through the lightning connector on your phone. Results will be affected by your room and how well you can balance yourself and the backing using placement of yourself, the mic and the speakers. It’s a video version of what Sam Philips did at Sun Studios in Memphis. Elvis and the band round one mic .
Worth exploring Garageband on your macbook and your phone as it handles video and will enable you to load the backing track and your playing to make a mix and synchronise it to your video. Steep learning curve but may be easier than Pro Tools . Loads of how to videos. Google is your friend, as my professor of computer science told me when I asked him how to do something . I was a mere lad of 62 at the time.
Getting up to speed with tech is frustrating but nowhere near as challenging as playing trombone.

It looks like you can drag and drop a video, the backing track and the audio of your playing into Garageband then line them up.

You don't have to buy camera lights if you stand in direct sunlight.

This may be more of a learning curve than you're willing to take on but here are some reasonably simple instructions for recording over a backing track using Garage Band:

https://online.berklee.edu/help/en_US/g ... and-on-mac