Week 3 Blog

17 August 2007

Today we were in the studio again for the first time of the term. To get us back into the swing of things we recapped Hello Riverina and we were able to start slotting in to our preferred crew roles much more. My roles were on camera and Sound Director which excited me alot as they were the two aspects of a production I am most interested in. What, for want of a better word, relieved me the most was how much I did actually enjoy partaking in these positions and how hungry I was to learn more about them.
Most of the people I got to work with in this show were already people I had a good repore with such as Nathan Howelly, Mark Alexander and Stuart Buchannon which I found made it run so much smoother than previous shows with other people.
One aspect of sound that really interested me was the improvements digital mixing consoles have brought compared to that of analog mixers. Through doing research I found that obvious things like the ability to have 100 channels of audio on a desk that has only 25 physical channels. Other factors that really impressed me were the limiting of reverb in the studio, automatic feedback reduction and the fact that the digital circuitry is more resistant to interference from outside noise such as comms and mobile phones.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_engineering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_console