For our “bad interview audio,” we first played around with the idea of having music play in the background to overshadow the voices in the interview, but then we remembered back to class when you said that putting the microphone on auto will pick up white noise, so we wanted to try that. We also played around with the volume/input levels to make the audio sound loud when its not. When I accidentally hit the recorder against the desk during the interview, I didn’t stop to rerecord or fix it. Also, I held the microphone close to my mouth so that it would pick up my voice loudly and not pick up so much of the voice of the person I was interviewing. All of these audio aspects made the interview a bad one, because the audio quality was so weak that it interfered with the content of the interview.
When I was getting the non-human world and man-made world audio recordings, I went to the Delaware River. The non-human audio is the sound of the water of the Delaware River rippling and splashing. The man-made world audio consists of cars driving past the river on the road, one car blasting music with the windows down.
When I was getting the human world audio, I went to the library. I didn’t want the people I was recording to know that I was recording them for fear that it would sound unnatural if the people were aware. So, I held the mic over the railing of the library on the second level pointing the microphone downward to capture the audio of the chatter/murmuring of people in Skillman Cafe on the first level. I had to increase the input level so it would pick up the sounds from afar, and turn down the volume so that I wasn’t hearing the playback too loudly.
Julia Ciciarelli and Grace Veghte