Showing posts with label podcast sound recording how to microphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcast sound recording how to microphone. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Live with the Undead? Ghosts of the Internet Radio Show 2


Ghosts of the Internet Two

Folks will be dying to hear it!


Sunday, October 26, 2008 Live at 2pm Pacific - 5pm Eastern

We're going Live {ish} again the weekend before Halloween!!

Collect your favorite Ghost stories, poems, childrens' books, or write up your own personal hauntings...
OR - you can download pdf's here of some stories

Come to Keri and Michael's House to join in Live.

email me liveshow@eclipse-1.com for a map

OR

You can send PreRecorded stories to me in .mp3 format - at least 160kbps please,
as an email attachment

email me
or email me liveshow@eclipse-1.com and I'll give you an ftp location to send it to.

OR
CLICK AND WE WILL CALL YOU! THROUGH GRAND CENTRAL.COM




You can call +1 818 338 5411 at butihavenoopinion.com
and leave up to a 3 minute voice message.


TO PRE RECORD A SCARY STORY via your telephone:
LEAVE A MESSAGE WITH YOUR NAME, AND WHERE YOU ARE CALLING FROM - THE TITLE AND AUTHOR OF THE STORY OR POEM
- {PLEASE CALL BEFORE NOON, PACIFIC TIME ON SATURDAY the 25th}
THEN READ AWAY -
WE'LL GET AN MP3 FILE OF YOUR STORY DELIVERED TO US-
AND WE WILL AIR IT!

OR
You can also call in live through talkshoe.com - access via telephone, ShoePhone™, Skype, or VoIP and be a part of the show
FROM HOME or on the road!! - http://www.talkshoe.com/se/about/TSAbout.html


To listen to last year's show... {both pre recorded and live}



Pick your Story - or tell one of your own!!

Live on the Air! [Or Web]


Boo at 2 pacific - Live at 5 eastern

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Do You Podcast? If Not Why Not?

Do You Podcast? If Not Why Not?

If you are blogging, why not reach your material out into other media?

If you have a Mac it's so easy out of the box.
All you really need is a microphone that gets sound into your system and into a recorder like Garage Band.

The Samson C01U

I have been using this inexpensive USB microphone from Samson.

I mount it onto a mic stand with a boom arm - a table stand will do - and use the included usb cable to connect it to a usb 2 port on an Imac G5.
Make sure you use a pop filter in front of the mic . This really helps!

optional: to isolate rumble and table top noise - use a vibration shockmount on the mic stand.
Samson has it's "Spider" which suspends the mic from elastic bands.

If I want to eliminate the background noise fromthe Mac's fan.. I use an active usb 2 cable extender and record in another room.
I'm a sound snob.. what can I say, it's what I do.

I record in Garage band and edit any mis - takes out of the podcast.

Take a listen to this Podcast from www.animalbytes.net where the Voice Over was done on the C01U and all the sound was cut and mixed in an early version of Garage Band.


Using the Samson C01U with Apple Garage Band (Mac OS X)
  1. Plug the Mic into a USB Port
  2. Open Garage Band and Go to Preferences ⌘,
  3. Click on Audio/Midi
  4. Select Samson C01U from the Audio Input drop down list
  5. Click on Yes when it asks if you want to Change audio driver
  6. One the Driver initializes, close the preferences dialog box and Garage Band will be ready to use the C01U.
This is what they say but it's not always that easy.

in Garage Band you have to make sure that the inputs are set AFTER you launch the application. Then plug in the mic into the usb port. Then go to sound preferences on the mac.
Select the input for the Samson.

Don't forget to change the preferences inputs in Garage Band, too!

Here is a good review of the mic and it's uses By Ric Ford (Sept. 15, 2005)

http://www.macintouch.com/samsonc01u.html



Check my friend Douglas Welch's Blog

My Word with Douglas E. Welch

to see his process.

This is fairly close to how I do it.

- more later!