If you want to get theoretically by yourself about acoustics, then these links will probably have you reading and thinking for a while.
Ethan Winer is an expert on acoustics that I have great respect for.
Sound On Sound article, mostly geared towards home studios, but might be of interest anyway.
Geared towards control rooms, but useful anyway.
In part 1 in the series of room treatment I said that proper treatment is a lot more expensive than most of us can imagine. This is a no-joke as you’ll find out. For you who fell you might want to spend a little more, here are some links to get you started. These are neither the most expensive nor the cheapest options out there.
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Rooms have a habit of “sounding bad”, especially small apartment rooms with a computer stuffed into them. The common way to deal with this is with acoustic treatment which is a lot more expensive than most of us can imagine. Today we’ll talk a little about DIY treatments.
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A de-esser (or DeEsser) is a dynamics tools for dealing with high frequency sibilants, such as s-sounds, thus the name. When recording the human voice some sounds can be especially troublesome, this includes s, p and t. The de-esser is basically a compressor that’s sensitive to higher frequency sounds like “esses”.
Audacity 1.3.4 (beta) have been released. It’s in beta because it doesn’t include complete documentation and translations into other languages. Audacity is a multi-platform audio editor (Windows, OS X and Linux) and is absolutely free. Certainly something to check out if you haven’t got a proper audio editor for your podcasting purposes just yet.
Here is an e-book focusing on just that - podcasts with Audacity. I have no idea if it’s any good, but it could very well be worth checking out. Don’t believe all the hype on that page though (Audacity is not “universally recognized” as the number one software for podcasts).
I bought a new guitar today, a Swedish axe from Hagström, so I of course had to lay down some riffs with it.
Sometimes all you need are a few seconds of music in your podcast. Like a riff or something that ends one segment and starts another. Well, here are two!
As with all clips on Audival, you can use this for free in your podcast
Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadEven my girlfriend liked this one, so it can’t be all bad…
As with all clips on Audival, you can use this for free in your podcast
