I have spent the past week chasing up the equipment Lee has suggested we need to record sound in the studio and outdoors.
This is the list:
a digital recorder (with windshield for field recording if it has built in microphones) or a digital recorder and separate microphones (again with windshield / Rycote for field recording)
headphones for monitoring
A condenser mic (or similar) and stand for indoor recording
cables to connect microphones to recorder
cables to connect the above recorders to a computer
cables to connect the above to sound sources with a ‘line out’ capability
I have no idea what most of this stuff does – but am sure I will by the end of the week. I will be fluent in sound equipment!
To acquire the equipment for the week I had to fill out a risk assessment form for the School of Art – seven pages of questions that responded to things like ‘Describe who may be affected by the hazard, how an accident may occur and what kind of injury they might suffer.’ I’m really hoping there will be no hazards and no one will suffer an injury in the creating of sounds. With Lee arriving tonight (11.03pm) it turns out I can’t get the equipment until Friday. But as they say in Wales – dim ots (doesn’t matter) – we can spend Thursday planning our week together, catching up and maybe see what sounds we can record with basic equipment – like our new phones!
