Category: Equipment
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Proper Microphone Placement
Plenty of podcasters go out and buy fancy microphones, only to use them improperly. This can be discouraging, especailly when they hear good recordings made with the same equipment and wonder what they are doing wrong. I’ve been told a number of times that the sound quality of my podcasts rivals that of NPR. Yet,…
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The “Hat Mic”
This is a trick I learned from NPR’s Tony Kahn. Microphones scare people and are hard to use properly. Anyone who has ever tried to get someone to talk into one knows this first hand. The “Hat Mic” is a novel solution to both of these problems. To construct one, take a small, high quality…
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Adobe Releases Free Public Beta of New Audio Software
I haven’t downloaded it or tried it yet, but Adobe yesterday released a free public beta of their new Soundbooth audio application. According to this Macworld article, “Soundbooth will target the same professional market as Apple’s SoundTrack Pro.” “I think they are probably going after the same market, ” Hart Shafer, senior product manager for…