I just recently rented out some sound equipment from school. I'm a student at Lehigh Carbon Community College, where I major in Music/Sound Production. My first field recording project, which I'm doing for extra credit, involves going to a ski resort, which I work at, and recording many sounds including ski lift mechanical noise, ski/snowboard ambience, and footsteps in the snow. I'm really looking forward to this and can't wait to see what sort of ideas I can generate from the assortment of samples I'll have collected.
Take a look at the equipment I'll be using:
The Zoom H4 is a portable recorder capable of up to 24bit/96kHz recordings to an SD card. It has two built-in microphones for X/Y pattern stereo recordings, but also accepts two additional mics via two XLR-1/4 in. combo jacks. The H4 has the option of stereo recording or 4-track mode for mult-track recordings. This handy little gizmo is battery powered, but can also be plugged into an outlet or USB port. The H4 can also record in MP3 format up to 320 kbps.
The AKG C 568 B is a short shotgun microphone with a hyper cardioid pickup pattern. It includes a 12 db/octave 120 Hz bass roll-off switch. I'm looking forward to trying this out at the ski resort!
That's all for now - thanks for reading!
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