Lo4 - Evidence of setting up equipment and recording

Setting up equipment:

for my equipment I used a XLR microphone going through a audio interface. Below I have attached pictures of the area I used for all of the recordings, this was suitable for me to record my radio show due to the fact that the room is soundproofed meaning that there won't be any echoing in the recording making the recording sound good and professional. another reason I chose this room to do the recordings is due to it having all the equipment I need as well as being the place where I will be doing my editing, this is useful as if I realise I made a mistake and need to do another take, it will be much easier to do it then rather than going to a separate place, streamlining production.

Recording:

While recording, instead of having the microphone record directly into the computer, I had it go through a audio interface instead. This first reason why I did this is because my computer does not have a XLR input I cannot plug in directly anyway, but the second reason is because the audio interface acts as a cleaner for the audio removing allot of noise that comes from things such as the cable and power running through the microphone. Additionally, with the specific interface I am using (Vocaster One) there are presets such as a radio preset that i can apply while the data is running though it before being sent to the computer, meaning that the audio is being altered while it's still going through the initial processing allowing for the best sound while also eliminating some steps in post-production such as adding compressors and EQ. As I was talking into the microphone, I kept checking the gain level (the green bars flashing). This is because if the gain is too high, it can cause peaking which is when the microphone fails to pick up on certain sounds if it is too loud, causing distortion and noise making the recording practically unusable.

To actually record my voice, I had the microphone record directly into audacity, this was very beneficial as I could directly record into the tracks I need, meaning that there would be no need for a huge library of external files for each of my recoding's. Additionally, this allowed for essentially lossless recording as I did not have to export my audio each time recorded it which causes some compression even on files such as WAV and FLAC.