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Please, please, please do what you can, before starting the interview, to 1) reduce room reverb on both ends. And 2) compare audio levels carefully beforehand s
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
Please, please, please do what you can, before starting the interview, to 1) reduce room reverb on both ends. And 2) compare audio levels carefully beforehand so they're close to equal (in headphones monitoring what's going to the recorder).
Reverb : Many interviews I've looked forward to hearing (with those who are living or gone, native speakers or not) have so much reverb (echo) on one end that many words are lost in mud. Tragic. (And have people talk across the mike, not into their mike. 'Plosives'.
Levels : When the two partys' audio levels are very different, the overall volume has to be pushed up to hear the weaker party. Then the other party is too loud! (Software can fix this on the production end ... best IF you record to separate tracks!)
- rahimnathwani 5y agoThe OP is about job interviews. Your advice seems more relevant to media interviews.
- voakbasda 5y agoApparently, it is standard practice in some companies to record your interview for others to review later? At least, that is what I have inferred from other comments on this post.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoEven if that were the situation, it's not feasible for the interviewee to "compare audio levels carefully beforehand so they're close to equal". What is the interviewee to do? Do a test call with the interviewer before the interview? And then listen to the recording to determine which of them should adjust their mic volume and by how much?