Another day of recording. We booked out the Marantz Recorder one more time, thinking that it couldn’t fail us again. We were wrong. Even after formatting the damn thing there were still errors every five minutes. This resulted in George and I recording one or two sounds, then uploading them to a laptop, deleting the files on the SD Card and re-formatting it. We used an AKG C414 as the C3000 was already booked out. The sounds came out just as well, if not better, due to the hyper-cardioid setting on the C414.

Anyway, we managed to get all of the sounds that we wanted (minus the sound of a crowd outside a lecture theatre), and re-recorded the sounds that we somehow managed to delete on Friday. Some of the sounds that we recorded include: brushing teeth, footsteps, in-game sounds, text tones and pouring water. To capture these sounds generally George would create the sound whilst I set up the Marantz so that the gain was at the correct level, and then we would perform the sound and record it a few times in order to have different choices if one didn’t sound very good.

The recording went very well and we are now ready to edit our sounds with just over two weeks – more than enough time to get our Soundscape sounding spectacular.

Today George and I went out for a second recording session. Again, we booked out a Marantz Recorder and an AKG C3000 and went to George’s apartment to record. We recorded some of the sounds in our running order, however ran into another problem.

The Marantz Recorder came up with an “Error” sign after we had recorded about eight sounds, meaning that we had to stop the recording, take the sounds off of the SD Card, and take the Marantz back to Media Loans. We asked how to stop this the next time that we record, and apparently we have to format the SD Card in order to stop the error from occurring.

We also realised that we had somehow managed not to save the sounds that we had recorded on Friday, meaning that we will have to record them again tomorrow, in another recording session.