Zoooooom
Learning how to use new equipment is always a bit daunting, I feel like so many times I’ve learnt the basics of programs and camera equipment that we’ve used so far but never developed an in-depth understanding of them or their different features that I could have used to make my work perhaps, slightly better. I’m giving learning Audition a hard crack, so why not try and become a pro at the initial recording too. Today I decided I would really focus and try to grasp the best way we could use the Zoom microphone for our podcast to capture super crisp sound. Here goes nothing.
This are some notes on our little in class tutorial on how to use the mic. I was hearing a lot of terms I didn’t recognise, but all in all got a pretty good idea of the different features that will be important when we’re recording.
Also! Super handy – the Dummy’s guide to the Zoom Handy Recorder H2n posted on the Media 1 blog.
The things I really want to focus on before we get started creating our next assessment are:
- Learning how to reduce background noise from the microphone in Audition
- Learning how to reformat the microphone (deleting everything after use)
- Getting a little better at editing audio in general in Audition and changing volume (fade ins/outs, overlapping audio and different volume levels such as background music etc. – this is all stuff we’ll surely include in our podcast)