Sometimes all you need are short sounds for your podcast. Perhaps you’re ending one segment and starting another and need something to divide the two? Try these for that…
As with all clips on Audival, you can use this for free in your podcast
Yesterday I had to record some spoken word in a rather noisy small room. The noise was mostly from computers and the like. Because of this I picked a dynamic microphone (a Shure SM58) instead of a condenser and thought that if I just pointed it away from the source of the noise it would be all fine. Actually it was. I got a decent signal in, and while I’m sure some very low noise was picked, it didn’t really bother me. What did bother me though, was that the speech came out rather “spitty”. What did I do? I placed a cap right over the mic! You know, one of these typical wooly winter things. Worked great…
Just a quick post to say that the next part on digital file formats is now up on Broadcast Engineering.
Broadcast Engineering has an article on digital file-formats that might be of interest to some.
