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| What are the proper techniques to sound-record music from a performance? |
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Since the greatest number of students will have access to a portable cassette recorder, the lesson assumes that as standard equipment.
- Discuss the factors (given above) that affect the quality of a sound recording.
- Review the Guide to Cassette Tape-Recording with students, discussing equipment, types of microphones, proper recording levels, unit placement.
- With a tape recorder in the classroom, experiment with recording. Have a student sing a simple song or play an instrument, and record first with the microphone too close, then too far. Alter other factors such as using the microphone and a line feed. Purposefully over-record and under-record. Demonstrate how to read the recording meters. Have different students take turns running the tape recorder. Have students listen and identify successful recording techniques.
If students have access to enough tape recorders, have them record a friend or household member in a brief interview or performance. Students should bring in their recordings and discuss the characteristics that made for better and worse recordings.
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LESSON 3.2 |
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| Hanna Drollinger plays her fiddle close to the microphone during a performance. In recording this performance. In recording this performance, what would you need to pay attention to? |
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PHOTO BY RYAN BROWN |
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