Sound Entry #2 - Sound Walks

The task given in class was to produce a sound walk gong through different sound atmospheres. For example inside and then outside. This was to discover the sounds we may not think about during our everyday life and to get us to think about the room space and how it might affect our recordings. 

The two recordings I have produced are the same route. From the start of the Media Building (Silverstone) to the Jubilee building via going outside and then taking the Jubilee building lift up to the corridors to study rooms. The first recording was done with a Sennheiser K6 microphone and the second with a lavalier microphone.

The K6 recording:

https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-martin-eagle/sound-walk-01-week-2

The Lavalier recording:

https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-martin-eagle/sound-walk-02-week-2

Listening to a recording to think about what goes on this week, is the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. Here is the link to the radio broadcast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xrkr

The Jeremy Vine show is a talk show where he will discuss popular topics in politics, the news and alike and have the public phone in with their views and opinions. It is often spliced in with songs from different decades. Jeremy is introduced with a jingle which says his name and and lets the listener know who's on. He introduces the show with "how are you?", speaking directly to you instead of everyone as an audience. 

His voice is very easy to listen to as his voice sounds natural and he sounds like he's from an upper middle class background so he enunciates well. I've listened to his shows before where he sometimes uses big news stories and has someone important come into the studio to voice their side of a usually two sided argument. However most of the time, he uses call ins from the public. Obviously the sound quality is massively different to a person in the studio using high quality microphones and a person of the public using their mobile or house phone which gives significantly lower quality.

This gives problems due to signal quality in areas which may mean dips in quality and actual output. I've heard of shows of his before where they've had to interrupt and stop someone from talking due to not being able to hear them or them cutting out. Regional accents also come into play as ones with a strong accent may not be heard as well as others. Coming back to the studio, it sounds like a very well produced sound which makes it sound natural and pleasing to the ears. It also uses little to no sound effects, in the sense, they don't make it sound "whacky", when Jeremy Vine is talking. This mainly comparing Radio 1 to Radio 2 though.