simon wright
Wednesday 16th March 2011 2:07pm [Edited]
London
477 posts
Are you going to have better equipment this time Simon, lol.
Yep. Last time we didn't have a dedicated recorder, now we have. We used to use a decent mic recording directly into garageband on a macbook. it was...Ok. Nothing more.
I asked a sound engineer to recommend a good recorder that wouldn't break the bank and he suggested the Zoom H2. It's got mics facing East and West (as it were) so that actors can face each other across it rather than all be gathered around one forward-facing mic.
So far we've been emailing mp3 recordings to writers, but I might pursue putting a better (uncompressed) recording onto a CD and posting it. Then you'd have a full-quality stereo recording and you could copy it onto a smartphone/mp3 player as well. CDs and postage are so cheap that it wouldn't cost us much more. I'll see if there's enough interest.
Totally agree that the venue we used to use was acoustically hopeless. In those days we had no money and used to use a free room in a pub (everybody starts somewhere) now we hire a room in a Theatre. Which, incidentally, is partly why the workshop fee has gone up.
The rest is greed. Sheer greed.