Wow! What a big week!
In episode 88, a ton of feedback regarding microphones on noisy trade show floors and the like…
Scott Hess likes the Sennheiser HMD25′s, and the HMD280-XQ’s,
Tokyo Dan suggested checking out this video on YouTube, as well as this video on shooting video on a Nokia N95,
Dave King mentioned these headsets from Eartec, which look like your standard headsets that you’d get from AKG or Sennheiser, but Eartec say they will customise the circuitry for you upon request!
Then, Michael from New Zealand asked about matching RMS levels between his locally produced content, and material coming from other studios,
Jim Weishorn asked about multiband compression,
and we finished off with a discussion on the differences between MP3 and MP3Pro encoding.
   Some recent listener feedbackShutters Inc Firstly let me start with reference to something that Bruce had mentioned, I think in episode 137. You were quite concerned with the audio quality that you were able to present to listeners from the portable recorder used at Echuca, the audio on that episode was fine. I have recently dabbled with other podcasts, and have since canceled all of the downloads except Shutters Inc. Bruce the quality of the audio delivered by you leaves all others far behind, keep up the good work. Thanks for the great pod casts not only in the information passed on but also the technical quality. Mark Chapman Sine Language Bruce, I can only say, in my opinion, that the services you are providing are greatly appreciated. J. R. Building the pod I've only recently decided to get back into music production after a prolonged absence. So, when it came to choosing a DAW, it came down to a choice between FL Studio and Audition. Dollar wise, quite similar although FL Studio does offer more in the way of virtual instruments for this price range. But I chose Audition for two clear reasons. 1. I really like the look and feel. The layout is just easy on the eye and made sense to me very quickly. 2. I knew I had a great teacher. I discovered Building the Pod through the Adobe web site and soon found Sine Language. I have to thank you sincerely for your weekly tuition. It has turned a somewhat severe learning curve into managable bite size pieces. I simply can't overstate how thankful I am of your weekly podcasts. Bye for now. Ross Huntley |
May 25, 2008Sine Language – episode 0882 Responses to “Sine Language – episode 088” |
May 28th, 2008 at 15:16
Hello Bruce. I listened to your latest cast. Great stuff as always. I have two questions, one off topic: You mentioned getting a lot of exercise on your “pushbike”. What is that? Could you please give me more info? I ride a Burley Django recumbent myself.
Next, I have an Audio-Technica ATH-30 Com Dynamic Headset. Bought about 1.5 years ago but never used because I can’t get an acceptable level out of them for use with my computer sound card. I tried plugging them into the line-in jack and the mic jack, but very very low level. Can hardly hear the output from the mic. Even plugging them into my mixer with mic input gain doesn’t do the trick. I had them looked at by the manufacturer and they said they are fine but they are not for computer use, they are for sound studio use. A m I doing something wrong? How are these things supposed to be used?
May 29th, 2008 at 21:08
G’day Bruce
I’ve recently found SL and BTP and have been going back through previous episodes.
I do a couple of podcasts (Erk Pod and Erk to the Diary Room) and have been podcasting for a year. But I am still learning.
Recently I heard on another podcast about a compressor and then I went to my local Sound store where I have brought a few things and had a listen to what a compressor can do.
So for the last couple of episodes I’ve been running a compressor and the sound has been good. However last night, I recorded an episode and did my sound checks and everything. I trusted my ears and it sounded good through the cans. However when I edited it, I was way too hot and the waveform was almost totally green. So I am presuming that this was too much compression and/or gain. Needless to say, that episode’s audio was passable but not to the standard of the previous 2 episodes. I did the best I could to rescue the audio but what would be a good fix if that happened again (I am using Audition 3)?
So is it better when doing a soundcheck to totally ignore what I am hearing and rely on lights like those on my mixer and compressor? I would be tempted to take off the cans while doing the soundcheck but I have to worry about my co-host’s levels and those of guests (up to 2) as well as mine so I should probably have the cans on.
Cheers, Bruce! Thanks in advance for your help.
Erk
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