Archive for October, 2006
Rode Podcaster
I mentioned in another post about the Rode Podcaster. This new microphone features a dynamic microphone with built-in headphone amplifier for direct monitoring. It comes with a microphone stand, you’ll have to pay extra for the shockmount. The website in the last couple days has been changing, and so it looks like [...]
Leo Laporte Cancelling TWiT?
While looking for my latest episode of TWiT, I saw that I had episode #1 of This Week in Law instead my fix of Leo, Dvorak and the others. Well it looks like TWiT may be going the way of the Dodo. Leo mentioned on his blog that there will be no show [...]
Podcast of the Week – 10/19/06
While at thePodcast Expo I got a chance to talk with Jason Watts of the History Podcast. History Podcast covers one historical topic each episode. Check out these show topics and see if one might interest you:
Stonewall Jackson
Mata Hari
Lady Godiva
Godzilla
Bloody Mary
Thanksgiving
Bonnie and Clyde
Wyatt Earp
Easter
William Wallace
Jason also takes requests from listeners. If you have [...]
Use Soundflower and LineIn to Record Audio
I was trying to answer a question on one of the podcasting forums about playing comments while recording in Garageband. My answer was basically use a mixer. Though after some more research it can be done on the Mac with Soundflower, a free tool from cycling74.com, and LineIn, a free tool from Rogue [...]
10 Podcast Production Tips
Here is a blog post with some great tips on recording your podcast, software to use, technique, etc. Apparently the guy, Amit Agarwal, has quite a few readers, 4399 according to his Feedburner bug. His bio also mentions he’s a “professional blogger”. Good work if you can get it. His podcasting [...]
Video Kick
Okay, so I’m on this video kick. I think I’m going to produce a series of how-to video podcasts. The first one will be geared toward telephone interviews via Skype. Meanwhile, I’m scouring YouTube to find what podcasting videos are out there. Here’s one on recording with Audacity.
Great Video/Song about podcasting
Podcasting from LINUX
Renato from the Night Passage Jazz Podcast posted a how-to podcast in Linux at the Digital Podcast Forum. This was one of the questions on the last Q&A. I mentioned that I hadn’t gotten some sound cards working correctly in Linux. It seems Renato bypasses recording on Linux totally and just uses [...]
#4 – The Levelator (206) 203-3438
I downloaded and installed The Levelator from Gigavox Media. This little program raises the average volume of your audio file/podcast. After you’re done and ready to post your podcast, drag the file over to The Levelator as the last thing you do to prepare your audio. The results are astounding. Here are [...]
Questions & Answers #4
Here are a few of the latest searches that came across the stats in the last few weeks.
Search Terms
Response
recording a podcast with children hardware
What an interesting question. I am wondering what “children hardware” is referring to. My son Adam has recorded an episode of his podcast on a cheap Sandisk MP3 player. Actually I bought [...]
