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Cooking has become one of the most popular hobbies around the world today, thanks in part to celebrity chefs and their cooking shows. Whatever your take on this trend is, it is rather hard to deny the allure of cooking and enjoying the results of your labor.

For someone who spends time in the kitchen – even if only sporadically – it is essential to have some tools which you can rely on. There are kitchen tools and gadgets, of course, and then there are sources of inspiration for your next dish. More →

While there are more types of microphones, the three useful for podcasting are dynamic, condenser and ribbon microphones.

Condenser microphones have been used for all kinds of applications for a long time, and quality varies a lot. They require some sort of power source, like phantom power. Dynamic microphones are often more directional than condensers (which can use different pickup patterns). Dynamics are also often more robust. They are the most common microphone for live use, but are used in studios as well. Ribbon microphones almost seemed to disappear for a while but have seen increased usage the last years. They typically use a figure-eight pickup pattern, meaning that they pick up both at the front and the back.

We’re all different, and all like things differently done. Here’s how I like my podcasts.
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I’m thinking of making a new podcast myself, and while I have the theme of it pretty much figured out, it made me think of other ideas for podcasts as well.
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Side-chaining is when you use the dynamic levels of one source to control the compression of your signal. For podcasting ducking might be the typical use for side-chaining. But you can also use it with a compressor and an EQ to create a de-esser, or with a gate and create the opposite effect of ducking, i.e., letting sound through when the signal is sounding.

A multiband compressor is simply a compressor that can be set to operate differently on different frequencies. For instance, you could set it to a ratio of 4:1 on 500-1000 Hz and a ratio of 2:1 on 3 kHz. In the same way multiband limiters also exists.

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Synth sounds: a bass, a weird auto-panned stabbed chord synth, and a whistler.