Digital Audio for Public Historians (1): Recording Devices

As we discussed in yesterday’s class, public historians might use audio recordings for a number of different projects: oral histories, podcasts, audio clips for exhibitions, documentaries, among other things. We were able to play a bit with different recording devices—from smartphones, to computers, to low and and high end voice recorders. It became obvious very quickly that both the equipment we used and the recording conditions had a huge effect on the quality of our recordings. Over my...