Pioneer Podcasters Share Insider Tips: Techniques & Equipment
(Four Part Series--published weekly)
by Jack Herrington01/09/2006
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Listen in as Jack Herrington, the author of "Podcasting Hacks", chats with pioneer podcasters, Doug Kaye and James Polanco. Doug is the founder of IT Conversations, the influential site that features podcasts covering important events, programs, and interviews with industry luminaries. James is the founder of "Fake Science, the popular podcast radio show covering all things digital music--news, reviews and profiles of digital artists.
#1 Podcasting: Make Yourself Sound Good
Doug Kaye, James Polanco & Jack Herrington share their tips on the best podcasting gear--from choosing the right mics and using mixing boards, to the use of compression and dampening noise with egg crates.
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Jack Herrington is an engineer, author and presenter who lives and works in the Bay Area. His mission is to expose his fellow engineers to new technologies. That covers a broad spectrum, from demonstrating programs that write other programs in the book Code Generation in Action. Providing techniques for building customer centered web sites in PHP Hacks. All the way writing a how-to on audio blogging called Podcasting Hacks.
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2006-01-10 08:21:18 pzakian [Reply | View]
First, thanks for a great podcast with excellent production quality. I can see from your MP3 that you recorded at around -12 dB with an occasional peak up to -3 dB. Is this a recommended standard for production audio levels? Is there a standard for appropriate levels of compression? -
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2006-01-10 08:48:15 Jack Herrington [Reply | View]
It is a bit soft. I think that is the style of the particular engineer that we were using on this interview project. Do you think it's too soft? -
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2006-01-10 10:56:53 pzakian [Reply | View]
If the levels are too low, they are not much too low since I did not have to change my speaker volume to listen to it (based on listening right before that to some commercial jazz CDs and other CNN type news audio). What's interesting is that the levels of the CDs are much higher, but maybe because the energy is spread out over a large bandwidth, it sounds softer. I think your engineer probably really knows what he or she is doing. This seems to indicate that we just have to pick a level (-6 to -12 dB maybe) and compare it to commercial material to determine if it is appropriate. Any additional thoughts would be appreciated. -
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2006-01-10 10:59:10 Jack Herrington [Reply | View]
His primary job is NPR, so I think he follows that style in interviews. And that style is definitely toned down in comparison to commercial radio which is heavily compressed.
