- 11 minutes – HD Video for online course – Color
- My role: Instructor
A quick overview of how to improve the quality of sound recordings made with phones, built-in mics, and pocket recorders.
This is another online demo for my Film 118 students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, when COVID-19 isolation measures drove the course online-only. My students lost access to University equipment halfway through the semester, which meant that many of them had to complete the course using only a smartphone and without access to audio recorders or microphones. In this video, I wanted to demonstrate a few ways students could get better-quality sound from the low-quality microphones built into their cameras, phones, and other devices.
I mention a couple audio recorders in the video…
- The Tascam DR-05X
- The Zoom H1n – They’re closed for Passover until later this week, but as of mid-April 2020, B&H has a great deal on the gray Zoom H1n, making it comparable in price to the Tascam DR-05X (follow this link and then click “Gray” under the color options).