Category: Tutorials

  • Microphones – the basics

    If you plan on doing any talking at all in your podcast a microphone is definitely a must. While you might have some crappy old thing lying around (or perhaps a computer with a microphone of it’s own), you will find that a proper microphone increases the quality drastically. For podcasting, I would say that […]

  • Digital file formats explained

    Broadcast Engineering has an article on digital file-formats that might be of interest to some. Originally posted on September 4, 2010 @ 3:02 am

  • Hat-trick

    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 […]

  • Plug-ins in audio production

    During the coming weeks we will be talking a lot about various effects that we can process our audio with. If we choose to work in an entirely digital environment this will be achieved by using plug-ins. A plug-in (sometimes spelled plugin) is sort of an application that works inside your other application. Like an […]

  • More on digital file formats

    Just a quick post to say that the next part on digital file formats is now up on Broadcast Engineering. Originally posted on September 11, 2010 @ 3:29 am