Equipment- Induction images

I didn't attend the inductions but here are the images of the equipment we should have been using in this module.

It is a small device that you attach microphones to, to record your sounds and save them to an SD card.
It has a recording and a play back function.
It takes standard AA size batteries.
it has an X/Y microphone arrangement where the input jacks are places to capture stereo quality sound.



I found an image on the website where this product is sold, with a diagram of how this works

A shot gun microphone picks up sound in what is known as a polar pattern. I'm not entirely sure what that means exactly with plenty of online research, but I know it means that the microphone itself can pick up a lot of sounds from all directions.


A boom microphone is a microphone that is at the end of a long pole, the pole is to assist the user to getting the microphone as close to the sound as possible, usually used during filming so that there are microphones close ( but not in the frame/shot).

 A rifle microphone is very directional, in that it tends to pick up sounds from where it is pointing at, Usually if you want to pick up a specific sound out of a whole field of others.
From research it seems they tend to be used more often in things like live reports on the television.

 The sm 58 is a vocal microphone and is generally used to record sounds made by man.
For example someone might want to sing in their animations or they might want to do some voice acting.