Sound Recording Experience

Lydia, our director in our group, had the awesome idea to do some of our sound recording at the nearby  bowling alley so we went there Tuesday morning to recording as many unique bowling and billiard-related sounds. Ten Pin Alley was extremely generous and courteous not only to allow us to do our recording there but gave us access to go behind the lanes where the machinery was, lent us some pins to create more sounds, and let us get up close by going down the alley and helping us however they could. I feel like we were able to get a lot of unique sounds and we were able to record the majority of the sound effects or clips that we needed that day. All of the extra sound recordings we needed my group was able to record individually at their homes and in the library Wednesday afternoon. Ethan and I learned that we needed to manually control the level at which we were recording a lot of the sounds at the bowling alley because the machinery was extremely loud and we would have blown out the levels. It was amazing (and a little bit annoying) realizing how much sound the mic can actually pick up. For example, when we were trying to isolate and record a few sounds away from the lanes in the other half of the building, the mic was still picking up the loud squeaking/screeching of a man sitting in one of the chairs in the bowling alley area, making it difficult to isolate the sound.