ASK Videos has announced the release of a new GarageBand tutorial DVD. It caught my eye since it seems to deal a little with podcasting and voice overs. The downside is that tutorial DVDs are rather expensive, and if you don’t care about the music side of this DVD (which is definitely the majority of it) it will probably seem a little expensive to shell out 50 bucks for it.

Perhaps there’s someone here who want to learn about podcats and is an aspiring mixer, producer or musician?

Check out the details at ASK Videos website.

I found an article on podcasting with Linux this morning, and thought I’d share it with you. It’s old, but still worth a read. The core of the article deals with Audacity and recording interviews with Skype, which of course can be of interest to non-Linux users as well!

The article claims that you will need a second computer for recording both the voices from Skype. I definitely don’t see the need for this. I don’t know if Skype has the proper recording features now (as I said, the article is old), or if something like Audio Hijack isn’t available on Linux, in either way it could be solved with some creative routing with a proper audio interface.

Article from Linux.com

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.

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…

Until Flux released something called a de-compressor, I would have said that the expander is the exact opposite of a compressor. You can pretty much tell it from the name, right? While the signal above the set threshold is toned down with a compressor, it’s the signal below the threshold that’s toned down with an expander. Thus creating an image of more dynamic audio.
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iZotope have posted new video clips on their audio clean-up application RX. Check them out here, at their website.