{"id":93,"date":"2009-06-10T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=93"},"modified":"2012-01-31T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:10:16","slug":"recording-studio-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Recording Studio Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, after having crazy fun at another school, I got some computer training :-)\u00a0 Yup, I said that right\u2026 Michael taught me how to use a professional audio package called Pro Tools LE to do some studio recording.\u00a0 The studio was a small room with an exercise mat draped across the table to isolate the microphone, and some plastic chairs to hold the laptop microphone amp, but it was all we needed.\u00a0 A native Setswana speaker named Pokolo then read from the Community Health Education guide.\u00a0 It has chapters on Cleanliness, Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Smoking, etc and basic information about prevention and HIV\/AIDS.\u00a0 Michael recorded Pokolo reading the first 3 or 4, and then turned it over to me to do the remaining half.\u00a0 Whoohoo!\u00a0 I even got to give that exaggerated finger pointing to cue up the recording for each track.\u00a0 We spent the rest of the afternoon stopping and starting and recording tracks as needed.\u00a0 The material will eventually be added to the solar or hand crank audio devices OneWay is distributing to the local villages.<\/p>\n

BTW, yes, they do say \u201cHakuna Matata\u201d here.\u00a0 Emily and I nearly burst into music from The Lion King when we heard someone use it this morning.\u00a0 It was great fun.<\/p>\n

-Pete