SOUND RECORDING
How sound works
HOW SOUND WORKS
- Sound waves are created by the vibration of an object, which causes the air surrounding it to vibrate. The vibrating air then causes the human eardrum to vibrate, sound can travel and bounce off hard surfaces but gets absorbed by soft surfaces.
- Varying loudness means the sound waves add partially quiet and partially loud at different locations. For example a room with hard surfaces and a high ceiling would have more reverb
EQUIPMENT
- A lavalier microphone or lavalier is a small microphone used for television, theatre, and public speaking applications in order to allow for hands-free operation.
- A shotgun or rifle mic because of its similarity in appearance to a gun barrel. The slots in the barrel allow off-axis sound to cancel giving a highly directional response.
Recording Studio
A recording studio is a small room with soft padding on the walls usually with a low ceiling as well. This makes the reverb in the room sound dry or dead, you would want to record in one because it blocks out sound from the outside environment and there is less reverb from inside the studio.
Projects
Today we used adobe audience which is a software that allows you to edit audio. In our lesson we were given audio of a radio show and it was our job to edit it all together, we faded songs in and out and put a narrators voice in the middle of the songs.
