Week 8/9: Audio activities 3-6
For my first recording, I chose to create a listen and draw activity. I left all takes in the original clip for editing later. The recording was made using a Tascam audio recorder and external powered binaural microphone with very little noise. After copying the file to the computer and opening it with Cyberlink Audio Director, I realized that one microphone had recorded at a much higher volume than the other. I readjusted the audio recording settings, and re-recorded the activity.
Activity 4,5,6 Editing and combining clips. I had so little background noise that I did not use a reduction filter. For the finished track, I recorded an additional instructions clip. I then cropped and cut the original clip and added in a chime effect between each instruction. In addition, I added an intro and outro track from chosic.com. I faded the track in and out, and cropped it as needed.
This is the finished audio track:
Resources:
Silly Intro by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/free-music/
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keith Webster
March 27, 2022 — 4:09 am
Hi Geoff,
It sounds like you’ve had some decent gear to use and time to learn how it works. It’s getting to be the case more and more that consumer grade microphones (even those built into laptops) don’t produce much machine noise.
The management of sound levels when working with multiple sources and soundscape design is the next level that educators need to master. Your last track combines several sources to create an interesting activity.
For your last clip I would suggest boosting the volume of your narrative relative to the background music (and/or fading the background music more when you are talking). I would also try to match the peak decibel level of your sound effects in scale with the rest of the audio. They have impact because of their nature.