Sound Recording

This morning myself and Chris started recording for our Sense Of Space project, with our idea being the day activity of my kitchen from the perspective of two fish we have. We recorded a range of sound from water drops to the sound of a microwave.

We struggled at first technically with setting up the  Marantz but we quickly sorted that, we first tried recording with the hydrophone in the fish bowl. Using the hydrophone did not work very well, there was too much distortion, the majority of sounds recorded with the hydrophone were distinguishable, but didn't have the distinct underwater sound we were looking for. Chris as editor suggested we could use effects in soundtrack pro to create the underwater sound.

We experimented making the sounds relating to fish ourselves, for example with the sound of the fish food, I used my milk shake powder shown in the image to the left, and with the fish 'pop' we simply made that sound ourselves. I shall post a sound sheet in the next blog post.

Once the Marantz was set us we found it easy to record sound, with us doing the daily activity. There was a lot of activity in the kitchen as my flat mates start to wake up and get their breakfast. We are recording Morning and Evening, so later on I will record conversation and general activity around 7pm, to get the realistic representation of my kitchen.