lecture recording

For my Singapore's Military History lecture today, I attempted to record the lecturer's voice using my Creative MuVo MP3 player's recording function. Turn out the effect wasn't that fantastic, have to really turn the volume knob to maximum during playback to make out the words slightly clearer.

Why do I even want to record it? I thought for Arts, it is not about munching books and practising questions, but more like absorbing and osmosis through the skin (not literally), so I thought I can playback the lecture once in a while so that the ideas would come naturally whenever I think of the topic. Wow lucky me I didn't totally slack during the lecture hoping to get whatever I want through the sound recordings, at least I did take down notes, but having the sound clip would be wonderful.

So what I did was to download this toy called foobar2000, a playback tool with Replaygain function which lets you adjust the gain, ie the volume. Managed to increase the volume, but then not only does the lecturer's voice become louder, so is background noise such as latecomers banging door, or students laughing to the lecturer's jokes... (did I hear my pen tip writing away on the notepad?)

There ain't best of both worlds, but at least I got the world that I wanted.