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Chris Watson Guest lecture, Field Recording tips, work progress (10/02/16)

  • Writer: Chris Lightowler
    Chris Lightowler
  • Feb 10, 2016
  • 2 min read

Had a guest lecture with Chris Watson, gained a lot of insight and inspiration involving field recording tips, different techniques of microphones recordings and microphones themsleves.

Most inspirational info included:

- Layering ambience’s, (far & close) capture a close sound, take a few steps back take another recording, rince and repaet further away, layer in DAW and mix like a chord structure

- Different surround sound systems & Recording spacial sound

Put the audience where the microphone

- Wide angle stereo perspective + close mono focused sound

- Atmospheres: relatively quite/low dynamic recoding of an open space

- record rail train over canal, liverpool/leeds canal

- Wide angle stereo recording of birds

- levelof the stuff you listen to, should be played back at a minimal level

- Strigulation

- Insects rubbing parts together to create pitch

- harmonically rich

- Ultra sonic frequencies

some of the fundemtals with will 50khz, but harmonic fallout, harmonics will be at 20kHz - - -

- 12.5khz'Habitat' recording

using natural sounds for music

emphasis on dynamic range to engage audiences

Other notes included:

Movement with stereo can create a good effect but may be confusing to brain without visual

Static recording helps create a perspective/location

Reference: discus levels and the use of minimal sounds, if a sound has too much background interference, simply bringing down the level can isolate the prominent close sound and take out the background with major filter processing needed

Note:

I should set a plan to manage the project and my process of work ethic

I will begin my Evaluation stage that links with my progress journal and my written W.I.P of each project.

One thing I need to address as a problem is how my DnB song doesnt have a strong theme in comparisent to my others.

I have:

- Plastic/Metal hits for Glich Hop

- Electrical signals for Electro House

- Natural loaction for Melodic Groove

So far ambience and aesthetics is the best theme for my DnB, this works but hasnt been represented very well.

 
 
 

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