When collecting sounds of a place there are things to take into consider, when are you going to record, what are you going to record with, and how will you go about it?
Early on in the VR project Ingrid introduced us to multiple microphones that are good for recording sounds for VR, I chose to use the Zoom H3VR. The Zoom H3VR is a ambisonic mic that records a whole 360 radius using it’s 4 microphones. This is much better then using something like the Zoom H5 field recorder, that only records whats directly infront due to its X/Y mic setup. I got to experiment using the Zoom H3VR in the lecture with Ingrid and it was a very simple machine to use which was a relief.
On Wednesday 26th April I walked around the whole of LCC and collected multiple sounds with the Zoom H3VR. I started recording in the stairwell outside of the kitroom, I chose this place as it is quite echoy so it produced lots of boomy sounds of people walking around and the genreal bleeps and sounds of LCC. I also recorded in the hallway of the sound arts and interactive arts hallway. There is also a stairwell at the end of this hall which has a constant beep and has lots of reverberation in the stairwell.
After recording I put the sounds into a programme called ‘Zoom Ambisonics Player’. Which is a app you can download of the zoom website, where you can export the audio you recorded and also change the direction. As it is a 360 microphone. I then expoerted these sounds out of the player and into ableton. I did no altering to them after as I wanted them to so natural compared to the more artificial sounds.