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New iZotope RX videos

iZotope have posted new video clips on their audio clean-up application RX. Check them out here, at their website.

Adding music to your podcast - part 3

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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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Adding music to your podcast - part 2

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In the previous post on adding music to your podcast, I talked much about how I would add something like a theme music or a jingle to a podcast. Today I will talk about using background music.
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Adding music to your podcast - part 1

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Since I post a lot of sound clips here at Audival that are absolutely free to use in your podcast it might be time to give a proper explanation on how I would incorporate them in a podcast.
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Dealing with noise

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You can consider this post a complement to the post “Cleaning it up”which explains how you can deal with pops and clicks, as well as cutting out unwanted sounds from your recordings. While pops and clicks can be called “noise” in one sense, it’s not actually the kind of noise that we usually mean when we’re talking about noise in audio discussions.
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Room service - part 3

If you want to get theoretically by yourself about acoustics, then these links will probably have you reading and thinking for a while.

Article by Ethan Winer

Ethan Winer is an expert on acoustics that I have great respect for.

SOS - Making rooms

Sound On Sound article, mostly geared towards home studios, but might be of interest anyway.

Article by Steven Klein

Geared towards control rooms, but useful anyway.

Room service - part 1

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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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