They are the contrabass instruments such as contrabass recorders, contrabass clarinet and lower clarinets, contrabass saxophone and lower saxophones, contrabassoon, contrabass trombones, etc. Their range are very low, some are extremely low and I wonder if their sound is nice or not. The most appropriate thing they can play is doubling their bass counterparts which are pitched 1 octave higher. For example: baritone & F-contrabass recorder, bass & C-contrabass recorder, bass & contrabass clarinet, contralto clarinet & subcontralto clarinet, bassoon & contrabassoon, baritone & contrabass saxophone, bass & contrabass trombone.

The PDW-1500 is a compact HD recorder which provides outstanding picture quality in MPEG HD422 as well as an eight channel (HD-SDI), 24 bit audio recording capability.  What’s unique about this deck is its ability to operate on AC, DC, or power.  With it’s large 4.3 inch LCD and built-in speaker, it performs as a versatile and high-quality recorder which is suitable for both in-house and field operations.

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It comes equipped with a multi format up/down converter, which is highly useful when employing both HD and SD format materials at the same time.  What’s more, the RS-422 interface enables the PDW-HD1500 to be used as a player deck for linear editing.

The PDW-HD1500 deck boasts fast data transfer at approx. 220 Mb/s through Gigabit Ethernet, thanks to newly developed dual optical head.

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…making sure you are ready for the job. (part 3 of the e-book)

Technology doesn’t make the media, although media production needs it. A lot. For some reason many of the radio students seem to think that understanding recording levels and audio quality is like understanding the relativity theory. The very basic technology that gets you far in radio is not very complicated and most of all, once you master it on a decent level, you don’t really have to think too much about it anymore. Sounds like a reasonable deal to me. Then you can focus on your great ideas.

Besides adverts, the main reason for people to change the radio station is a bad signal, and I’d imagine that would apply to any kind of sonic irritation including inaudible interviews, cacophony and general chaos created by bad recording.

It really doesn’t matter how good your idea is and how much you worked for it if you cut corners with this. This is the point that not doing it right can make all of the material useless. And if it is useless, don’t use it.

As a radio student you should go out with a recorder and record for no other reason than to learn how to do it properly. Try it out and while at it, maybe you will end up with a small sound effects library and some cool atmospheric backgrounds you can use later on.

Is it better to record from far and turn the recording levels up or to be quite close with levels turned down? Find that out.

Take also into consideration that microphones can differ so it is important to get to know how the one that you are using works.

Have a good read through of the manual of the equipment you are using and become familiar with using it in practice. Recording is something that should become an act of muscle memory like driving a car. If you are a driver you know that initially you had to focus on which pedal is which, how to change gears and even not to forget to indicate when you are turning. After driving for some time, and I doubt it happens in any other way, you stop thinking about most of these things. They just happen. You can drive a distance without thinking once about changing gears yet surely you have done it.

When you gain confidence and get the recording and other production to a comfortable level you are really in a position to focus on your content and expression. If you don’t, you might find yourself ruining the interviews by either bad audio quality or losing your focus to questions and interaction as you stare at the recorder and try to ensure that everything is fine with it. Neither one of the options give you any good results; what they do is make either you or the interviewee look and sound bad. In all likelihood, it actually does it to both of you.

Also, always wear headphones. You wouldn’t write an essay without a screen on your computer, just hoping that what you are typing reads well, so don’t record without headphones either. The example may sound a bit extreme, but that is how it is; a kind of guessing game with a hope that things will be okay.  When you monitor the recording you know what kind of material you go home with and you can fix the levels while it still matters. With interviews you can also end up having very disturbing background noises that you don’t necessarily pay attention to without the headphones; air conditioning, computers, ambulances, dogs, playground… you get the idea.

Unless those additional sounds are an integral part of the story and something that you want to have as describing the situation or space, try to avoid them. Even if you want them, you are usually better off recording them separately and mixing in when you are compiling your work. If something is making a sound you’d rather not have, don’t be afraid to ask if it possible to go and record the interview elsewhere. People generally understand when you explain your reasons and most of the time, especially at events or in public spaces, just going around the corner will be enough.

These things are more common sense than pure technological know-how, but without paying attention to the recording as a practice you may just not realise them in time.

It is always good to aim for the best possible quality and never use bad quality audio, but even after all the hard work there can still be some annoying noises on the background, or keeping the levels was tricky as the interviewee was moving too much. When you listen to a lot of the talking content in radio, you hear that many interviews are telephonic which makes their quality, realistically speaking often quite horrid and always a bit compromised. It seems that there is an unspoken agreement that this is acceptable in radio and without it a lot of content would not exist. So use your own judgement with the quality of audio you have recorded, but set the standard a little bit higher than where you instinctively would have it.

Learning the technology, like many things in general, is first about learning the basics and creating a routine. The creativity follows usually afterwards when you try things out, but even that has got more to do with what type of raw material you collect than how you record that audio. I will later on write more about your material, but for now, as we are still talking about the equipment and how to use it, consider making yourself a checklist.

The good thing about checklist is that once you’ve written everything down, you might not even need to consult it, as you remember these things already. That is not to say that it’s not good to confirm; it generally is good to confirm.

On your checklist you should have ideas like…

• Checking the equipment before going out to collect audio
  • All the necessary cables (check your microphone cable by recording a bit – broken ones can add horrible cracks to your material)
  • Enough batteries with enough power (have some spare ones)
  • Recorder and microphone
  • Depending on your recorder, are all the recording settings as you want and need them to be?
  • Headphones
  • Enough space on your memory card or MiniDisc depending what you are using. I recommend to have a lot more space than what you estimate you’ll need. Sometimes we get surprised with what is available and it’s good to be prepared.

• When on the location, whether inside or outside, listen to the sounds of the space and identify potentially problematic ones. On top of alarms, sirens and air-conditionings take wind specifically into consideration as for microphone it is not just sound, but rather something blowing in it which compromises the quality of recording even making it unusable.

• Record atmosphere, because it can be very useful later on when in edit.

• Before recording an interview or collecting any audio, make sure that you are happy with the recording levels.

• Make sure that the recording starts and runs. People have made the mistake of having the recorder on pause which feels like recording as you hear the sounds from the headphones and the levels are showing, but the numbers on the display of your recorder are not changing.

• When you record, depending on the equipment, be sure that you don’t record over previous tracks and lose other interviews.

• When you transfer the material to a computer name the files appropriately and save them in a folder that you can easily find.

These are just some examples that will help you to create a workflow. A routine. All of this, after some practise, is like remembering which pedal in the car is the brake and which is the accelerator.

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After I finished off the last of a book, read my bible, and helped Mom pull some stuff out of the junk room, I laid back down on my bed wondering what I should try to do today. There in the corner of my room a top my wardrobe sat my violin. I pulled it down and literally blew off the dust that had collected there. Amazingly it was still in tune. I began to play, scarring the cat down stairs! I did much better once  I started to play a song. Bob didn’t come back up and join me though but that was okay, he has no idea what good music is anyway! lol

After I began to play, I decided that I wasn’t going to quit until my arms started to burn or I was called away. Then I did a few excercises and turned back to my music. To be honest, I don’t really know a whole lot about reading music. Like most other things that I learn, I catch a little here and a little there, always with a lot of practice and hard work. So I played hymn after hymn. Some from sheet music, most by ear and memory. I had a blast! I started ‘The First Noel’ and pushed myself to the end as my arms began to burn.

I wasn’t ready to be done yet, so I started tutting on my recorder. Have you heard ‘Amazing Grace’ on a recorder? I love the sound of the recorder and the violin! With that thought, I like that sound of just about every instrument! After that I came downstairs and started on the piano. (I’m just starting the piano so I’m not very good at all.) Rebecca, my sister, has taught me how to play ‘The Drummer Boy.’ I have been playing it over and over trying to work out all the kinks.

Now I forced myself to sit down and get to writing. I’ve written a good sum so far today and rewarded myself with writing a blog post! Soooo… Here it is! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! I did, got beat at Risk (again) but, hay, it was fun!

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Barbara Schlottfeldt shared a cute lesson last week called “Turkey and Stuffing.”  I modified the lesson to accomodate by third graders who are just learning the pitch “b” on the recorder. 

Process:

• The class sits in a circle with their recorders on the floor in front of them
• We sing  the Turkey and Stuffing song and go around the circle to reply what we like best. (see the music for information).  I transposed the melody to G.
• The teacher puts the melody on the recorder and the students listen to see if they can “hear the words” in the recorder melody.
• Students make the pitch “b” on their recorders and they are told to put their response in their recorder.
• We go around the circle with the teacher playing the melody and the students playing their response on B.

The Spoony Recorder Vol. 2

Here is another great idea for recorders! Thanks to Barbara Schlottfeltd for sharing this.  To see a larger image you may have to click on the picture a couple of times.  If you are still having issues you can email me at mmcdaniel@dadeschools.net and I’ll send you a copy.

The Spoony Recorder Vol. 1

I usually don’t post back to back music postings but this trio is lovely and I wanted to share my find.  YouTube is a treasure trove.