digital audio - process

Process- Our goals for this mission are the explore the history of the manufacture of digital audio, compile our findings into a powerpoint presentation and then present said findings to our peers. We also plan on making our own podcast as a way of demonstrating what we learn. We have a blue snowball microphone to record our podcast as well as that we will be using the software audacity to edit our audio recording.

We began by agreeing when and where to meet up to work on our group project as well as what we would each have to do individually in our own time, we came in early to use the mac labs on a number of occasions as well as staying in late in the library on our laptops to finish finding useful info. We spent much more time than we would have liked searching for empty rooms in the college to work on our project. We used many websites to compile our findings, we also tried to use different search engines , google, bing , yahoo etc. to hopefully mix up the search results and cover a more broad area of the internet. We used some of the resources  that were left on the intro to cdm website but ultimately felt it would be better to find new information and not to just reuse links, although we did use them as a guide of what to look for. We tried to separate the information that we felt we needed into 3 sections so each of us could specialize in 1 area and be better able to answer any questions we were asked, as we did not see an issue having our project separated into 3 sections.

We each tried to listen to as many podcasts over the time period to better understand how they should sound to a listener, and see what we could try to replicate in our own podcast. The Joe Rogan podcast seemed to be a big influence for our group as we had all listened to it before beginning our project and were partial fans of it, I myself use spotify and soundcloud often and occasionally stumble upon podcasts to listen to.

We also spoke to other groups tackling the same project to see what they had found and if there was any way we could help each other. We found that there were a number of people with similar ideas to us, so we thought we needed to find a way to stand out from other groups doing the digital audio mission, because of this we tried to go into great detail about the history of digital audio technology, and to aid this I made a small timeline of the bigger inventions that shaped modern digital audio.

Finally we did finish off our powerpoint and podcast in the nick of time just before we had to present and we felt we did a good job for our first college assignment.