Most of the recordings I made for this exercise I had planned beforehand, and considered how to record each sound in terms of location and microphone placement, in order to get recordings that required as little editing as possible before they could be mixed together. However, as I mentioned in my last post, some sounds needed editing before they could be used, as with the paper rustling sound, and some needed layering together before mixing to produce a stronger sound, as with two of the atmoses (the corridor atmos and the outside/window atmos).
Most of the sounds I used have reverb on them - in order to make different sounds and recordings fit together believably into a consistent acoustic space. There are two different-sounding reverbs I used, one for the corridor shots and the other for inside the bedroom. To do this, I copied the settings in Space Designer as closely as I could for each sound that needed reverb. In hindsight, this would have been easier and more CPU-efficient to achieve by using send effects - however, as I'm not as familiar with Soundtrack Pro as I ought to be, I wasn't sure how to do this, and decided not to spend much time learning how to do this if I didn't need to (which I realise is not the best way to learn, especially with technology). Another problem I had because of my lack of familiarity with the software was that I struggled to export a mixdown of the finished sound, despite having done so many times in the past with no problems.
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