I recorded Emily Frazer on violin. We were in a medium size room. She was standing up with a music stand in front of her in the middle of the room and I was standing beside her holding the recording equipment about 20cm above the violin.

On the first take she went pretty well except the violinist didn't really like ti because made a couple of mistake.

On the second take, the violinist stopped after playing the first bar and she wanted to start again.

On the third take, everything went pretty well except she made some mistakes and I pressed stop as soon as she finished instead of waiting for a couple so there were some noise of me pressing the button interrupted before she finished playing.

We both then listened to the recordings and share our opinions on what we think. I wasn't really happy with them, neither was the violinist so we decided to have another recording session.

On our second recording session, the violinist was sitting down and I was standing on a chair holding the recording device about 1m above the violin.
Take 1- It was going pretty well until she asked me if she could start again about quarter way through the piece because she made a mistake.

Take 2 - About 10 seconds into recording she stopped and started the piece again a couple of seconds later.

Take 3 & 4 she played the whole piece without stopping.

problems I had with this session was that I had to hold the recording device above the violin using my hand so my hand was getting really tired, it was sweaty and shaky.

We then listened to all of them and we both agree that we like take 3&4 of this recording session. However, when I listened to it later in the evening, I have noticed the background noise from the air conditioner and the lights in the room.

I then did some researched on how to use Amadeus Pro to edit the recording. I watched a couple of tutorials on youtube and read the manual that comes with it when I downloaded.

I picked track 8 to work on. I de-noised it because of the loud background noise. I also thought the violin was too sqeeaky so I used the slider thing to reduce the squeaky noise and other editing function.

I really struggled with this assignment because I'm not familiar with the software and I only had a week and a bit to work on this assignment. I also have a ferver and conjunctivitis on top of that so I am not happy with my finished assignment at all. I would definitely like to improve my editing and recording skill.


Thanisa Naripthaphan