EVO improves audio for virtual planetarium
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Pete Lawrence, an astro-photographer recognised by the Royal Photographic Society and Paul Abel, theoretical physicist and director of the British Astronomical Associations Mercury & Venus Section have been recording their half-hour script for each month’s episode from their respective homes since the beginning of Covid-19 lockdown.
“Paul and I have been recording the Virtual Planetariums for Sky at Night Magazine for many years,” explains Pete. “The requirement to record separately due to the pandemic however, posed real problems in terms of getting matched audio.”
It was Adam who first suggested the EVO SRB. As a sound recording specialist, he knew the benefits that they would bring. “We wanted a setup that would consistently improve sound quality and be simple for non-sound recording specialists to set up and use,” says Adam.
"It used to be that barely a month would go by without there being some tricky issue to deal with in the Virtual Planetarium voice recordings. Sometimes the guys’ recording gain would be tiny, on other occasions it would be far too loud. We would have issues with noise, faulty mics, faulty cables, handling noise – always something! To make matters worse, it’s the sort of job where redoing the recordings is rarely an option.”
Enter EVO SRB, which comprises the EVO 4 USB audio interface, a condenser microphone with shockmount, headphones and an XLR mic cable. A bundle was sent to each presenter. Pete says, “Installing Audient’s EVO 4 recording system at both sites solved these problems brilliantly. The EVO 4 is really simple to use and allows us to set identical base recording levels with just the press of a couple of buttons. As a result, despite neither of us being trained in sound engineering, our recordings are of sufficient quality to even satisfy audio mixing professionals. You can’t say better than that."
