This edition of the Podcasting for is all about recording audio. I’m talking to an old friend Willis McBrier – we talk a lot.  The conversation is in two parts.  

 

First it’s about sound itself, ambience, record levels, psychoacoustics.

 

In the second, we talk microphones and there are some examples of what a podcaster might use.

 

Willis McBrier lectures  in Creative Media at Belfast Metropolitan College. His career began over 30 years ago at the BBC as a broadcast and communications engineer and more recently, a trainer.

 

Sound … the recording of sound … the creation of sound … the celebration of sound and music runs in Willis’s family.  Both his daughter and son have their own music projects: Sarah runs an Audio Visual Arts festival of electronic music   Audio Visual Arts and Matt is a music entrepreneur – his project is called Feel My Bicep.

 

Willis and I met in Belfast’s Oh Yeah Centre.  A place that also celebrates sound in particular the history of music in Northern Ireland.  And it nurtures new music in Belfast and beyond.

 

The music is Cloudline from the Blue Dot Sessions’ Album K4 – you can find it on the Free Music Archive: that’s freemusicarchive.org

 

I’m using it under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Licence.