UWT Digital Experiment

Alice and Paul record static and bake pies

Last night Paul and I played with various method of recording Skype calls anticipating the need/desire of faculty and students to record and share interviews for course work.

Paul is going to put together the sample for the Wednesday meeting and we will keep notes on what worked and didn't work.

I was using Pamela and had it set to record in stereo. I then pulled the .wav file into Audacity and split the track out and was then able to do a little clean up on the tracks.

Things I didn't like about Pamela: I didn't like the fact that I couldn't 'see' what was happening with the volume. It wasn't until afterwards that I knew that I was topping out the mic and Paul was too soft. Most of that I fixed in post-production. Another option is to run a test with the other person, listen to the levels and then continue.

Things I like about Pamela: It was very simple. Once you get the system installed and the audio and speaker settings set it is a matter of calling, clicking the button and that is it! The sound quality was good (until Paul started playing with wires!!! ;-) and it was easy to manage the file afterwards.

posted by Alice Few @ 10:34 PM