The Goal of the Recording Session

The goal of the recording session is to walk away with a set of sound files that represent several different readings of each spoken line of your script. The sound signal that is recorded on the files should include minimal background noise and be as strong as possible without clipping. Clipping is when the sound source (in this case, the actor) is so loud that it overloads some portion of the recording equipment, making that particular portion of the recording useless.

To get a strong signal without clipping, you need to make sure that your actors are the optimum distance from the microphone (Figure 8.2). This will vary from mic to mic and will possibly be included as part of the instructions that came with ...

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