Week 1: Collecting Sound

Jiggly puff talks into a microphone, gets angry.

In this session, we’ll talk about how to collect sound. This might be voice, or it might be non-vocal sounds.

What do you need to collect audio?

Choosing and setting up a space.

Microphones matter!

Field Recording

By Matmos – https://web.archive.org/web/20060708080120im_/http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos/discog/ole677.html, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41499388

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It also applies to sound recordings like electromagnetic fields or vibrations using different microphones like a passive magnetic antenna for electromagnetic recordings or contact microphones. Source Wikipedia

Campus resources

TRU Library Makerspace has lots of great audio gear that are available to borrow, as well as places to edit sound.

Check out their equipment here