I met Baily on Tuesday the 1st to record our sounds. Baily had been away the previous weekend and got some very clear recordings of birdsong and his dog panting. In terms of equipment, we were using Audio Technica AT8015 Rifle Microphone and a Zoom H5 with the X-Y stereo microphone attachment. The stereo mic would be useful for recording low key atmospheric sounds while the shotgun with its very narrow pick up pattern would prove useful for recording specific sounds with little background noise. We walked around town picking up lots of different sounds such as footsteps, cars and the Peace Gardens. We went to my accommodation to record the sounds of getting out of bed and getting ready. We finally went to the train station to record lots of train audio. We were slightly concerned about this as the station is private property and owned by East Midlands Trains, so we thought we might be asked to leave as we did not have permission. However no one seemed to mind, we just got a few funny looks when using the rifle mic.
A photo of Baily recording a tree
We edited our audio the next day using Pro Tools in one of the Mac suites at the Harmer building. This was my first time using Pro Tools since a brief introduction to it a few weeks ago so I found it quite challenging. Compared to other audio sequencing software available I found this slightly tricky to use. For instance I've used Adobe Audition and Cubase before and they've both seemed a lot more user-friendly. Anyway after an hour or two of playing around with it we managed to get the hang of it. There was some low frequency wind noise in the recordings of footsteps. So I used the EQ editor the reduce the gain on frequencies below 100Hz. This managed to get rid of the wind noise. After exporting it we uploaded it to Soundcloud.
Here's the finished product: https://soundcloud.com/peter-simison/baily-pete-sound-project
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