Today’s tutorial was beneficial because I learnt how to use a recording device as we spent an hour recording a range of different sounds and seeing how a particular microphone worked in different situations. Problems we encountered were being placed in the CBD, and therefore if we tried to arranged to record a conversation, a truck may beep in the middle, and also other conversations would get mixed in the recording. The microphone did do a great job of recording, however it was impossible to remove background noise. Our most successful recordings were of myself talking, and an interview within the classroom as many people had left so the only sound you could focus on was our voices.

What I discovered about the mic technique was if you held the microphone too close to your mouth, the sound produced was very scruffy. The microphone needed to be about 10-15cm away from the microphone to hear a clear tone, however if they were yelling or talking loud, it would need to be drawn even further away. Once recordings had been done, our group uploaded our files to our computer and created a log on excel of our findings, which is also where we reflected on what we had achieved in this recording experience.