There are many techniques when doing audio recording. One technique is using handheld audio recorders to capture interviews and natural sound of high quality. Mostly video journalists tend to use this type of device. This type of audio recording is important because say if you are recording a band with a handheld recorder. The band music recorded will end up staying the same level; of audio it was recorded at so you don’t have to adjust the volume when listening to the recording.
Another way of recording audio is recording sound with a video camera that has a built in microphone. The built in microphones that comes with cameras, phones, and etc works good for picking up music from a loudspeaker. Although the sound of a mic on a built in camera isn’t that good they are primarily designed to pick up sound around the camera. Also another technique of recording audio is doing it with a hybrid camera. A hybrid camera doesn’t offer a choice to manage the sound. The hybrids relegate the sound to an automatic gain control which is a feature that is built in with the camera. That’s effective because you don’t have to worry about making sure the sound is okay if it is automatically done for you.
The Lavalier microphone is a good way of recording audio. Its’s a small mic used for video recording. This type of mic is effective with interviews because it picks up the voice of the subject while blending in some environmental sounds. Another technique is using a shotgun mic. It’s an unidirectional mic that collects sound patterns. For example the shotgun mic will record whats directly in front of it but also picks up the sound more garbled sounds of people in the same path of the speaker.
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