One final time George and I booked out the horribly over-complicated Marantz and an AKG C3000 this morning in the aim to capture the sound of a crowd. Luckily we had a Mediation and Representation lecture at 11:00, which we stood outside of until a crowd gathered, and then hit record. We recorded one take outside the lecture, and another whilst walking into the lecture and sitting down.

Now that I’ve thought about it, the AKG C414 would have been a much better microphone to use, because it has an changeable polar pattern, meaning that we could have recorded using an omni-directional polar pattern, which would have let us capture a more full sound. However, the C414 was already booked out so we had to make do with the C3000, which did the job well enough for the purpose of a muffled crowd. We are going to use a muffled crowd sound to signify that the individual in the Soundscape has earphones, and the crowd will then get louder when he “takes his earphones out”. If we manage to achieve this, it should sound excellent!