Yesterday, different to the usual weekly chapel session, I was given a very different task to do. I was told to take part in recording a voice introduction.
I was recording someone introducing a puppet theatre company at a festival. The voice clip was very short, so the recording procedure itself wasn't very complicated or long.
As for the technical aspect, the setting up required more time and I did experienced technical problems.
First, I had to set up a mike stand, together with a condenser microphone. I also had to use something called a pop shield, which when someone says something like "pop" the shield will prevent from the sound of the words being heard too loud through the speakers and in the recording.
Then, it was the time to test the communication between the control room and the recording studio, I was given a set of headphones, when someone was talking to me from the control room, I was told to check the quality of the sound in the headphones. I did experience problems hearing what was spoken from the control room, so I decided to try another headset, however, this didn't work, and I had to try further 2 headsets. After trying all headphones that I had available, and none of them had a full sound quality, I was forsed to go with the flo and use one of the headsets despite the distortion in the sound coming from the control room.
However, the recording went without any problems at all, after the levels were set, the recording started, it all went fine, and the person who was being recorded was satisfied with the recording.
wow hubert that is a really good blog. its really informative and very interesting. cant wait to read more of your blogs
ReplyDeleteHi Hubert. I liked how you went into loads of detail about the technical stuff and the problems you had with it.
ReplyDeleteNice blog Hubert. I liked the level of information you went in too on the issues you had. Although it was a shorter entry, you managed to fit a lot of info in there.
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