Last week, I recorded my sounds for my project. I booked out the Marantz recorder we were supposed to be using as soon as possible, and wrote down a list of sounds that I wanted to record:
I decided to use my car to record, as I wanted to see how effective it could be, and the differences it had in comparison to recording in a room in my house as I did last year. The main difference I noticed was the lack of echo in the car. The interior of the car being fabric rather than metal made a clear difference to how the space sounded on the recording. Also, the car was very good at blocking out sounds so I could get a clear recording. However, I did experience some noise pollution on my recordings during the day as I live near a main road. So, I decided to do most of my recording at night to avoid this, and I found it very effective.
Once I got my recording into Pro Tools, I started by naming all of my tracks so that I could easily find the parts I wanted and use them. I had my piece of text in front of me, to aid me in my structure of the piece, and I also put my voice recording in first so I could shape my work around the pacing of my speech. Further on my comment of Pro Tools, I did experience some background noise on my recordings, so I wanted to clean them up before I started working on them. After discussing with Harry, he explained that Pro Tools is good at arranging sounds and mixing them together, but it is not adequately equipped with the tools to clean up sounds. So, I decided to import some of my sounds into Adobe Audition, and use the noise reduction tool to make my recordings slightly cleaner.
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