My Experience Sound Recording

Recording sounds for our sound library was a lot easier than I had originally anticipated. Our director for the project brought a bunch of props with him and we stepped into the cramped whisper booth to record the sounds of dice rolling, the top of a pill bottle being twisted, and tissues being pulled from a box, just to name a few. I then took the sound equipment home to get the sounds of my cat purring and meowing. And every time I realized there was a sound occurring (like the dishwasher running) that I usually paid no attention to, I rushed to retrieve the H4N and start recording. Just listening to the sounds without seeing the source of them helped me to realize the way in which sounds can be deceitful. We saw in class how a bottle cap could be used to make the sound of a skateboard but I really didn't start thinking about how sounds of one object could be manipulated into sounding like other objects until I experienced it hands-on. And I love the idea of having to use one's imagination to create a sound or see what the source of the sound is.