Hardware Recommendations

 

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Best Practices

Surroundings

What does the room look and sound like? Some things to consider are ceiling height, ambient noise (eg., air conditioning, refrigerator, laundry, street noise, etc). You can listen without headphones but we recommend that you do a background sound check with headphones on as you’ll hear what the recording will pick up [see Hardware].

Headphones

We understand that some people prefer not to wear headphones (or earbuds) but we highly recommend that all clients utilize headphones when possible. This ensures that you are able to clearly hear any sound quality issues with the recording real-time and also prevents bleed-over from the other tracks [see Isolation].

Levels

Always check your levels before every recording. Regardless of the settings you’ve adjusted previously, things change that can negatively impact sound quality from recording to recording. Also, consider purchasing a microphone stand [see Hardware]. You’ll hear a difference between when you record facing down (eg., looking down at the table) versus projecting your voice level and forward.

Isolate

When possible, isolate participants by individual tracks. This ensures that the post-production editing process can treat individual issues per track versus the limitations based on a single track recording. Extracting sound quality issues in post-production is far more time efficient (therefore budget efficient) if you always record individual tracks [see Individual Tracks].

Individual tracks

Whether you’re recording locally on a computer or via a VOIP (eg., Zoom), our recommendation is always to record individual tracks for each participant. If a host and/or guest are able to record locally to their computer, they can then upload their recording to a shared drop folder. If recording via Zoom, always select “Record a separate audio file for each participant who speaks” under “Settings>Recording”. This ensures that each recording is saved individually and post-production editing will be more time and cost efficient.

How can we help?

Have additional questions? We’d love to help. Contact the Lens Group Media team at projects@lensgroupmedia.com.