Evan Schaeffer: What's your podcasting setup?
Part I in a series.
Evan Schaeffer of Notes from the (Legal) Underground has eagerly responded to my inquiry: What's your podcasting setup?
Kevin: Sure, I'm interested, although my set-up is strange. Here it is---
The Hardware: Long before podcasting, I had a basic sound studio I used for recording music. I've been using that same equipment for making podcasts, while recognizing that it's complete overkill and seems to be getting in the way of getting the sound exactly right
As described below in "technique," I begin by recording my voice with a Tascam 788 digital recorder; I then burn the resulting wav file to a CD; finally, I move the CD with its rough voice recording to an HP Pavilion 7965 into which I installed a Yamaha SW100XG sound card.
The Software: I use a number of programs for podcasts that I originally purchased to record music. These include CoolEdit Pro, Acid Pro 3.0, Sonar 4 Producer and Studio Edition, and T-Racks 24 mastering software.
The Audio Components: I record my voice with an Rode NT1000 microphone running into an Applied Research and Technology MPStudio pre-amp, then into the previously-mentioned Tascam 788 digital recorder. I monitor the sound by running the Tascam "monitor out" to a Yamaha RX396 receiver using Samson RH600 headphones.
The Technique: After recording my voice onto the Tascam 788, the wav recording is then burned onto a CD with a Tascam CD-RW788 CD burner. I then move over to the computer and rip the voice track from the CD using a freeware program. Then I import the resulting wav file into CoolEdit and use it to cut out the dead space. I also used CoolEdit for noise reduction, compression and to add reverb. From there, I add music and other sounds to the basic voice track by importing the edited rough voice track into either Acid Pro 3.0 or Sonar 4 Producer-and-Studio Edition. Both are multi-tracking platforms that make it easy to manipulate many various tracks of sound.
The music I add to my podcasts is in the form of Acid Loops, purchased loops, or music that I write and perform myself. If I'm performing myself, I play the music on a Casio digital piano, which is hooked into the computer through a USB connection; the sounds can be manipulated in a number of ways in Sonar using MIDI, soundfonts, "soft synths," or other software solutions.
When the production sounds right within Acid or Sonar, I render it to another wav file, then run the wav file through T-Racks 24 mastering software. This results in still another wav file that I convert to MP3 using MusicMatch.
Evan
Evan Schaeffer of Notes from the (Legal) Underground has eagerly responded to my inquiry: What's your podcasting setup?
Kevin: Sure, I'm interested, although my set-up is strange. Here it is---
The Hardware: Long before podcasting, I had a basic sound studio I used for recording music. I've been using that same equipment for making podcasts, while recognizing that it's complete overkill and seems to be getting in the way of getting the sound exactly right
As described below in "technique," I begin by recording my voice with a Tascam 788 digital recorder; I then burn the resulting wav file to a CD; finally, I move the CD with its rough voice recording to an HP Pavilion 7965 into which I installed a Yamaha SW100XG sound card.
The Software: I use a number of programs for podcasts that I originally purchased to record music. These include CoolEdit Pro, Acid Pro 3.0, Sonar 4 Producer and Studio Edition, and T-Racks 24 mastering software.
The Audio Components: I record my voice with an Rode NT1000 microphone running into an Applied Research and Technology MPStudio pre-amp, then into the previously-mentioned Tascam 788 digital recorder. I monitor the sound by running the Tascam "monitor out" to a Yamaha RX396 receiver using Samson RH600 headphones.
The Technique: After recording my voice onto the Tascam 788, the wav recording is then burned onto a CD with a Tascam CD-RW788 CD burner. I then move over to the computer and rip the voice track from the CD using a freeware program. Then I import the resulting wav file into CoolEdit and use it to cut out the dead space. I also used CoolEdit for noise reduction, compression and to add reverb. From there, I add music and other sounds to the basic voice track by importing the edited rough voice track into either Acid Pro 3.0 or Sonar 4 Producer-and-Studio Edition. Both are multi-tracking platforms that make it easy to manipulate many various tracks of sound.
The music I add to my podcasts is in the form of Acid Loops, purchased loops, or music that I write and perform myself. If I'm performing myself, I play the music on a Casio digital piano, which is hooked into the computer through a USB connection; the sounds can be manipulated in a number of ways in Sonar using MIDI, soundfonts, "soft synths," or other software solutions.
When the production sounds right within Acid or Sonar, I render it to another wav file, then run the wav file through T-Racks 24 mastering software. This results in still another wav file that I convert to MP3 using MusicMatch.
Evan
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