Audio Training
#60 – Mic Placement
Monday, August 25th, 2008Hey everybody, it’s been a long time since my last post but I’ve been crazy busy around here. I’ve got several site launches for clients and training products to create and promote (which I’ll have to plug in here somewhere or another). However, a listener sent me a question and I figured I’d [...]
Getting Voice and Music Mixed
Friday, May 30th, 2008Here’s the scoop. Episode 10 was supposed to have some pictures. They disappeared never to be found again! So wht I did is recreate the content in video format.
You should still go read Episode 10 because there are some tips there. But to see how to do it, watch [...]
Podcasting Tips
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Another screencast (I’m feeling generous). This time, we’l jump into more mic technique tips and some other ‘non-technical’ podcasting advice.
I find that podcasting is more than just hardware, software, and engineering. Although those elements play a large role in the success of your podcast, personality and presence is just as important (if not [...]
Learn to Create a Stinger
Friday, May 2nd, 2008This episode is a screencast and has some helpful tips on working the mic and creating stingers. A stinger is basically a transitional sound byte, something that plays in between two segments to kinda help break things up a bit, without the need for a full on introduction.
Stingers add a lot of pizaz to [...]
Audio Quality Criteria
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007This week we continue our audio principals saga and talk about what factors come into play to determine audio quality. We talk about sample rate, bit depth, and a bunch of other fun stuff that you need to know to work with audio on a professional level. Even if you’re just recording a [...]
Basic Audio Principals 101
Thursday, December 6th, 2007This week’s episode was recorded last month on location in Aylmer, ONT CANADA. The audio quality of the interview is not superb because of a problem with my screencapture software, sorry. We go over audio basics and start talking about sound in general, frequencies, volume, decibels, all that technical talk. This is [...]