Having fun on the day

On the day of recording, I booked out a Zoom H4N and a Marantz with a condenser microphone. Before leaving to catch the bus I checked that the equipment was working correctly. Dan and I arrived at Skegness earlier than the Declan and James. While we waited for them I did some test recordings, primarily to double check that the equipment was functioning correctly, but also to check the levels. While passing through the park on the way to meet the others I recorded the sound of the ducks in the pond. This wasn’t a sound we had planned on using but I thought it would be worth recording nonetheless, even if just for test purposes. I also briefly, recorded the sound of the waves and walking across sand. When they arrived I gave the Marantz recorder to Declan and James, while Dan and I held on to the Zoom. Despite checking the equipment thoroughly beforehand, the Marantz started displaying an error and would not record. We swapped the SD cards between machines to check if the problem lie in the storage but this did not solve the problem, which was obviously the machine itself. It was fortunate then that we had brought along with us two pieces of equipment because we ended up having to record everything using only the Zoom.