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.

In the previous articles on adding music to a podcast (part 1 and part 2) I discussed how to first add something like theme music or a jingle, and then some tips on how to deal with background music. For this post I’ll continue to talk about background music.
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