In order to achieve the Place team’s expectation for the project, the DMSP audio team booked audio recording equipment and had a test recording session at The New Steps on the afternoon of 2 March.
During the test recordings, the audio team evaluated the quality of the recordings and made some settings to get the best quality recordings as possible. The audio team identified two main issues during the tests. One was that the recording location was narrow and windy, so there was some wind noise recorded with two pairs of stereo microphones, so the audio team discussed a solution to reduce the wind noise and address the effects of wind noise as much as possible. The other problem was that the MixPre recorder was running out of battery power so quickly that the four sets of batteries that the audio team had prepared for the recording were almost dead within half an hour, so the audio team decided to use a computer to power the recorder on the day of the recording in order to extend the recording time and ensure that the recording went smoothly.
Molly Munro
