The main problem we had with this exercise was to get complete silence in the background whilst we recorded ur sounds. Even when we thought the environment was relatively quiet, when listening to the recordings we could definitely hear the background noises including people talking in the distance, walking up stairs and shutting doors. These background sounds were so much more evident when listening back on the recordings compared to when actually recording them.

Our most successful recordings were those in the bathroom; including flushing the toilet, the hand dryer, closing the door and running the tap. This was due to two reasons. One being that no one was in the facility when we recorded the sounds so therefore there was no background talk, walking sounds or anything else to interrupt, and secondly because the tiles and general feel of the bathroom created an echo atmosphere so the sound was crisp, clear and loud.

The best solo recording would have to be the coffee beans being poured into the glass container above the coffee machine. This was such a raw, clear and distinctive sound that was super successful.