Category: Tutorials

  • New version of Audacity released

    Audacity 1.3.4 (beta) have been released. It’s in beta because it doesn’t include complete documentation and translations into other languages. Audacity is a multi-platform audio editor (Windows, OS X and Linux) and is absolutely free. Certainly something to check out if you haven’t got a proper audio editor for your podcasting purposes just yet. Here […]

  • Room service – part 1

    Rooms have a habit of “sounding bad”, especially small apartment rooms with a computer stuffed into them. The common way to deal with this is with acoustic treatment which is a lot more expensive than most of us can imagine. Today we’ll talk a little about DIY treatments. Originally posted on November 16, 2007 @ […]

  • Dealing with noise

    You can consider this post a complement to the post “Cleaning it up”which explains how you can deal with pops and clicks, as well as cutting out unwanted sounds from your recordings. While pops and clicks can be called “noise” in one sense, it’s not actually the kind of noise that we usually mean when […]

  • Speak down!

    I saw Morgan Freeman on Conan O’Brien a while ago where he spoke about how he had voice coaching when he went to actor school. Morgan Freeman has that nice deep voice that’s never annoying (in other words, he would suck as a sports commentator), it was very apparent in the great documentary “March of […]

  • The recording chain

    Today I’m going to talk about the chain which you’ll ideally record with. If the things I talk about here sounds like Star Trek stuff, then just go back and read the previous tutorial posts. Originally posted on September 13, 2007 @ 12:54 pm