Archive for October, 2005
Next Step Equipment – Compressor
I already touched on the importance of compressing your vocals to get that polished sound for your podcast in the Basic Equipment series of posts. Perhaps the dbx 266XL wasn’t for you, how about the Alesis 3630 Dual-Channel CompressorLimiter with Gate. Priced at around $99, the Alesis 3630 will smooth out your sound and take [...]
The Snowball: Pro Quality USB Microphone
Blue Microphones are some of the best around, and certainly some of the most expensive. Below is a link to a review of the Blue Snoball USB microphone. Neat microphone for podcasting.
http://www.retrothing.com/2005/10/the_snowball_pr.html
Blue Snowball USB Microphone
Check it out!
Podcast Kits at Musician’s Friend
Musician’s Friend has long been my favorite online store for music production gear. It’s only logical that they would offer a podcast production kit. Well they have. The Podcasting Production Kit #1 thru #3 are available in a couple weeks. The #1 kits look like just a microphone. Probably not worth looking at, however the [...]
Odeo: Create Button Is Live
The follks over at Odeo have had three buttons on their site, Listen, Sync and Create. Until now the Create button was non-functional. But not any more. Head on over to Odeo and check out Odeo Studio. From what I can tell you are currently able to record 3 minute portions [...]
SamAsh now selling PodCastPack
Not surprising, but Sam Ash is now selling bundles of software, hardware, and iPods to help podcasters record their shows. The packs are geared for Mac or Windows users. The cheapest pack is $169.99 (Mac) and features a Samson C01U USB condenser mic, AKG headphones and a mini-boom mic stand. The most expensive, $559.99 [...]
Podcast of the Week – 10/25/05
This week’s Podcast of the week pick is the first repeat in the “of the Week” series entries. Scott Sigler’s latest podiobook, Ancestor, is on episode #7. Andy the Asshole is living up to his name, P.J. and Sarah look to be having a good time, Clayton is damn nasty and some serious shit [...]
Toys of My Youth
This is completely off topic, but this list of toys from the 70’s and 80’s is awesome. The link is from digg.com.
Let the reminiscing begin!
read more | digg story
Step Up to a Video Podcast
With the release of Apple’s new iPod with video support, you may be thinking about getting into video podcasts. The iPod needs video formatted in just a certain way. Here’s the link to the tutorial at the Apple web site :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/videopodcasts.html
Time to dust off the MiniDV camera and get recording!
Skip Classes and catch up with a podcast
Professors at Purdue University are recording their lectures and making them available as podcasts. Where was this when I was in college. You could sign up for that always available 8am class and then wait for the iPodder to download the lecture for listening on my iPod. Oh yeah, there was no [...]
Podcast of the Week – 10/18/05
I admit it, until recently I had never listened to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. Actually that’s not true, I downloaded an episode when I first heard of podcasting. But the episode that I downloaded ended up being an “on the road” episode. Having never heard the show, I was somewhat turned off. Well I’m [...]
