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fun with podcasting

Page history last edited by PBworks 15 years, 5 months ago

Our first podcasts just for fun: bdshow, chickens and chickens convention, pod1.mp3

What we used:

laptop
two really good microphones plugged into a bridge which is then plugged into the computer
Audacity recording and editing software available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Note: It is possible to use any microphone. Your voice will sound far superior with good quality microphones. The specific hardware we used costs less than $300.

What we learned: With two microphones we each spoke at one, but then each microphone corresponded to a different speaker channel, so depending on what speaker channel(s) broadcast on your computer, you may hear either one of us faintly. If we did over we would each take turns talking directly into both microphones.

Tips:

Have rough notes of what you want to say or ask.
Select music to add before and after the voice portion; see resources below. Note: If it doesn't say you can use it, for free, don't!

Click here for links to information regarding sound recording copyright issues.
If possible, record in a small room with padded or absorbent walls.

Free royalty free and Creative Commons music - a selected eclectic webliography:

Definitions from Wikipedia

Royalty free - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_free_music Royalty free music is not necessarily free
Creative Commons - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons A different kind of copyright

Royalty Free Music

http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/

Select FREE MUSIC from the menu bar to get to

http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-resources.html

Free Royalty Free Music Loops and Sound Effects

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml

See also a list under Free Royalty Free Music at http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/midi/index.shtml

Incompetech

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Original music by Kevin MacLeod in Wisconsin. Browse by Genre, Search by Feel. He asks for credit and donations.

Internet Archive Open Source Audio

http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

Flying Hands

http://www.flyinghands.com/cat-free_music_clips.html

Musopen

http://www.musopen.com/

Recordings of classic composers, entire piece, so some files are large.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Dept. of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

Sound Snap

http://www.soundsnap.com/

Includes sounds as well as music.

CNet Download

http://music.download.com/

Select the number before FREE MP3s

P.S. What's a podcast?

Definition from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like broadcast, can refer either to the series of content itself [this is our meaning on this site] or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.

Examples:

CLRC Meet the Directors Podcasts

http://clrc.org

Radio Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RADIOWP

NPR Podcast Directory

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

And many of their programs are podcast

Public Radio Exchange

http://www.prx.org/

Denver Public Library

http://podcast.denverlibrary.org/