Wednesday, 17 September 2014

LO1 Factors of Audio Production that determine quality

1. Noise. If you are recording in a noisy area then the microphone will pick it up and make your Audio product worse.

2. Distortion. If you are going through puberty or are going through some kind of voice losing illness, you would lose quality to your podcast as nobody wants to hear those Teenagers from the Simpsons for 40 minutes.

3. Echo. If you're in a room with hard, sound reflecting walls you will affect your quality as people aren't happy to hear hard sounds bouncing around.

4. File Type. A Wav file is of lower quality than an OGG file, the file type can affect quality.

5. Compression. Compressing sound to make a smaller file will take away from its overall quality, people aren't interested to hear your podcast through a walkie talkie.... unless you want to Retro and then in that case you're a bit of hipster,

6. Recording Level is about volume. Really quiet audio is hard to hear, especially in a car with engine sounds, but too loud makes it shock people when going from another station. Also stay consistent, having quiet Quint speak with loud Larry would annoy the listener.

7. Bitrate is the same as compression. Too low quality will sound like it's from a walkie talkie. Don't allow that, it's not good!

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