Task 2: Sound elements
Sound effects
Sound effects can be made in a few ways.
They can be recorded using a voice recorder and a contact
microphone when recording most sound effects.
Also after recording basic sound affects they can be improved with audio
editing software to make them sound better if needed. However, a contact
microphone is one of the ways to produce sound effects.
However, in some cases sound effects can b made using
stereo microphones.
Post Production
Also after recording the sound effects, using appropriate
microphones, you can export them from your recorder onto your computer, and put
some additional effects on the recordings using audio editing software like
audacity or Soundforge to make them sound more high quality and for the sound
effects to sound professional for the final product.
Some of the effects that can be applied can be Equalisation,
gate, normalisation etc.
Atmospheric
Sounds:
Atmospheric sounds are used to give a listener a realistic
impression of where a story is set.
There are a few ways to record atmospheric sound effects.
You can use stereo microphones to record them. In order to
insure high quality of the recordings, you can either buy a high quality
microphone, or after recording sound effects put them through post production
procedures.
You can also use external recorders. Like the Zoom H1
recorder which has stereo microphones. This device also allows you to record in
multiple audio formats if you wish to use this option.
Post Production:
After the recordings are saved, they can be put through post
production procedures to insure that they are the right quality towards the
final product. The same audio software mentioned above can be used to modify
atmospheric sound effects. Atmospheric sound effects require more advanced and
detailed editing in order to insure the high quality of the audio file. So
extreme attention to details is needed when using equalisation and
normalisation + resampling if required.
Music:
Music production is an area that uses most various types of
production equipment. To record a music product, either a theme tune, film
music or a song, there’s many software and devices that you can use to record a
music product.
Software
For producing the instrumental track, you can use Garageband,
this only one of many music production programmes which allows you to produce
music on Apple devices. Another software well known for music production is Logic.
These types of software allow you to compute your own music
with a wide range of instruments available, with more kits you can buy and
download. You can then also mix down your final product into a song adding
effects to the different stems of the track. You can use the same software to
record vocals if needed.
Music Production Equipment
However, with software also comes equipment, and there’s a
wide range of music production equipment available to you. Middy controllers
are very popular in this industry. Allowing you to compose music using a
controller that is basically a musical keyboard. The controllers vary in the
amount of keys and options available, however, they do because of that of
course vary in price. These controllers also allow you to add effects into the
stems of the track instead of using the computer keyboard. The controllers allow
you to add the effects with more precision with the various controls.
Dialog:
Recording dialog can be used in many different media
productions. Voiceovers for jingles, vocals for a track, commentary on
something and much, much more.
Recording Equipment
When recording dialog there are a few things to consider
regarding recording equipment. Depending to what type of dialog you are
recording, you will have to pick the correct microphone. For recording
interviews, you will need a by-directional microphones which will record the
front and the back of the microphone. For Voiceovers you will need an
Omni-directional microphone, which records only the front of the microphone,
this will then be recording only your voice.
Post Production
Then of course comes the post production for Voiceovers. At
this stage you can do the necessary corrections like cutting out silences,
sometimes if needed cut out some spoken parts, putting music and jingles when
appropriate and then normalising the Voiceover recording if required. All this
is done using audio editing software like Audacity Soundforge or Wavepad.
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