{"id":2,"date":"2015-09-25T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/?p=2"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:33:53","slug":"sound-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2015\/09\/25\/sound-foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently moved to the worlds most echoey office.<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0journeys in the MOOCosphere so far we know that learners really value good quality sound &#8211; so I was keen to test out what microphones I could possibly use next time we needed to record a soundtrack for a VideoScribe or Camtasia project.<\/p>\n<p>I had a collection to try out:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2015\/09\/microphones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2015\/09\/microphones.jpg\" alt=\"microphones\" width=\"876\" height=\"1130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2015\/09\/microphones.jpg 876w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2015\/09\/microphones-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2015\/09\/microphones-794x1024.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Logitech web cam\u00a0 (this really shows how nasty the room is)<\/li>\n<li>A Plantronics dsp 400 USB mic<\/li>\n<li>A lapel mic I got with a digital recorder<\/li>\n<li>A Plantronics audio 300 USB mic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can hear how I got on with this audio track<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/stream.ncl.ac.uk\/flash\/nuala.davis\/blog\/choosing_microphones.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stream.ncl.ac.uk\/flash\/nuala.davis\/blog\/choosing_microphones.mp3\">http:\/\/stream.ncl.ac.uk\/flash\/nuala.davis\/blog\/choosing_microphones.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&#8230; and my conclusions &#8211; either of the USB headset microphones sounded just fine!<\/p>\n<p>NB: I used Audacity (free) to create this track, saved the file on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/streaming\/streamingfromapersonalfolder\/\">streaming server <\/a>(stream.ncl.ac.uk) and have inserted the track into the blog via the url.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently moved to the worlds most echoey office. From\u00a0journeys in the MOOCosphere so far we know that learners really value good quality sound &#8211; so I was keen to test out what microphones I could possibly use next time we needed to record a soundtrack for a VideoScribe or Camtasia project. I had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2015\/09\/25\/sound-foundations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sound Foundations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurelearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}