Barb Beck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using my stuff in my advanced wildlife id course at the U of
> Alberta for several years. I only record the narration on the right track -
> leaving the left either with a call or blank. The students really like
> this. They can start to learn the stuff with the narration then switch it
> off. After that they can go to shuffle play and get the sounds in random
> order without narration. From the feedback I get from them it is working
> very well. Of course maybe they like it so much because they have it in
> their power to "shut me up"
Problem is that a major portion of my material is stereo, and I wish it
all was. We are using the stereo in preference when we can. In multiple
caller situations you would often be nearly wiping out one of the
callers. In two call situations I tend to record aimed between the
callers. If it's groups I'll try and balance the numbers on the two sides.
If you want to really think about this get out with Lang when he's
"positioning" his callers on his stereo stage. Really interesting to
watch and listen to the results. I'm still fumbling around about
positioning.
Of course with all the filtering to get the ID clips a good deal of the
stereo ambiance is messed up.
Probably a difference with bird vs frog recording. A recording of a
single bird can be mixed to mono without losing much. Any time there are
more than one with frogs or birds, stereo adds a lot. And with frogs the
single caller is the rare instance.
Our decision, made a few weeks ago, is not to have any voice mixed with
calls, not even fades, narration will preceed the calls. We have a
single narrator already chosen, one of the DNR employees has a really
nice narration voice. I don't have to get involved in recording that, it
will be done in a state owned studio. Though I am one of the ones
involved in writing the script. I'll bring up the suggestion, and it's
problems.
Note that we consider the chorus call section to be where you would go
to hone your skills without narration. There will be ID's in the booklet
for that. Much more realistic than single species ID clips. I don't know
how complete a set of chorus tracks we will manage, however. That get's
started next week.
Walt
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