Task 3- Professional recordings, editing equipment and recording techniques

Professional recordings, editing equipment

 and recording techniques

When you’ve recorded your sound,  you will then be able to access a software called Logic which is only available on a Mac computers only. On Logic, you can do many things with the sound that you recorded. For example, you can change the tone of voice of your recording so that it can sound as if you are in a auditorium/bathroom/ on the phone. You can make the sound a very low pitch or you can make the sound very high pitch. In addition to that, you can edit the sound which you have selected to cut out any irrelevant pieces of sounds you may not need within your podcast. When recording, you can also include a multi-track; A multi-track is when multiple sounds is being recorded at the same time (like a dialogue with a group of people talking at once or a live performance with many instruments being used at once). It can be positive when you are recording for example an argument when you want hear what everyone’s saying and when people are talking over each other. However, a negative could be that multi tracking can pick up any little sound whist recording for example, the air conditioner may make a humming noise which may be picked up easily or computers within a room which make a noise once it is switched on . 

When you are about to record, you must check the level of the recorder to prevent distortion. Distortion is when you speak to close to the recorder when the level is high meaning when the level is over its peak. This will happen because you didn’t do the sound checks. Make sure that it’s at 0dbu so that you don’t create distortion. When there is distortion, it means recorder wasn’t checked. Also when you’re recording, be aware of the environment that you’re in because the microphones are very sensitive and they pick up the smallest sounds. When you want to sync audio footage, you would use clapper boards. This will help you whilst you’re recording. As technology develops, they’ve invented a way where you don’t need to use the clapper boards but people still tend to use them as it is more traditional and more people are used to it.