Evaluation

This module has guided me into understanding the different recording equipment that can be used, techniques and advice for the best way of recording my sounds and, editing them and exporting them into UDK.

I found the zoom recorder to be a very good device in capturing audio with just its own microphone, at least for the sound effects I needed for my UDK level. I’ve had to spend as long as half an hour for capturing some of my audio such as the elevator due to patiently waiting for the cleanest recording without unwanted background noise. For my droplets audio I originally considered having a linear clip of random drops in one file, but during the editing I remembered the randomiser in UDK so I decided to split the drops into separate files.

Most of my editing for my sounds was removing the left over background noise and altering the sound to match my intended sound. Hiss reduction was the most commonly used effect to help with the background noise and worked most of the time, I’ve used adaptive noise reduction on some areas of my audio.

The acid sound is the one sound which I had used from a royalty free audio site due to the lack of time I had to record a sizzling sound, I used a sound of egg sizzling and then used distortion to alter the sound to feel more.