Ricardo+D's+Op-Ed+Article

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Is it that hard to find a quit spot to record your muckraker’s essay? I mean half the times I cant tell whether people are speaking into the recorder or eating it! If you are that hungry, at least pack a snack for nutrition and save the class a minute of trying to apprehend what you are ranting and raving about! Oh, and another thing, for those of you who enjoy the soothing sound of nature amplifying your glamorous opinions on rainbows, unicorns, and butterflies, at least try not to incorporate half a dozen or so birds chirping next to the recording devices microphone. If this is you, you might as well be that grimy old lady who solely feeds pigeons sitting on a park bench from 9AM-5PM causing an obnoxious amount of unneeded chirping for everyone else to hear throughout the day. When its time to record try not to start complaining about why Beiber Fever is a real sickness next to a nesting ground of a flock of birds chirping like there is no tomorrow. First of all Beiber Fever is a sickness, because I am sick of that twelve year old being the next best thing at everything, and second the only time recording next to a flock of birds would be acceptable is if it were a flock of seagulls (I know “one hit wonder band” but they have other good songs).

Its not just the audio recordings from this one assignment, I am talking about every recording any class has made us do. Spanish, English, history, all’s the same when it comes to the constant combination of birds squalling and individuals practically chewing on the recoding device. One other factor that is constant is the winds being channeled down the hallways and perfectly aligning with your recording device. So while you may be describing why you feel attached to cats, the wind easily manipulates your voice, and a sentence being recorded as “I saved a group of cats because I love them. They were in a fire and I saved them. There were no problems. They were troopers and survivors.” Turns into “ shhhhhh a group of cats shhhhhh were in a fire shhhhhh there were shhh no shhh survivors”. Who invited Santa Anna to the recording? You might as well have been in a tornado because I can’t hear crap! So this recording will be already to late to save half of you from one, two, or even all three of these annoying factors. I am not saying that none of this will not happen to me, it’s just something I absolutely despise about recordings and the people behind them thinking chirping birds are all cute and dandy. Mmmm no.