{"id":3506,"date":"2017-06-13T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?page_id=3506"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:39:30","slug":"recording-audio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/production\/recording-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on Recording Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the best\/right microphone (microphones are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/library.reed.edu\/imc\/\">IMC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/library.reed.edu\/parc\/\">PARC<\/a> for checkout).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Record in the right space (not in loud environment; turn off heaters\/AC\/radios, ideally in quiet carpeted room; wood amplifies and bounces sound).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When recording, make sure to drink water regularly, otherwise the microphone may pick up \u201cdry mouth\u201d sounds or noise.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be wary of recording outdoors, especially with wind or other background noises (such as traffic or leaf blowers) that may make and voice recording inaudible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitor the sound being recorded; make sure levels are good (not too quiet or too loud).\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Balance the interviewer and interviewee sound sources. This is an example where the interviewer&#8217;s voice is too loud, and the interviewee is hard to hear:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/103869564\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/103869564<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Balance sound throughout video so that the viewer doesn&#8217;t have to increase\/decrease the volume to hear all the details. Note the initial loud sound vs the interview sound): <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/96644748\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/96644748<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4858,"parent":3488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parent_template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506\/revisions\/4857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}