A couple of slides on how to go about podcasting...

1. PROFESSIONAL PODCASTINGA guidebased on a coupleofyearsofpodcastingexperience MarkusVoeltervoelter@acm.org http://www.voelter.de

3. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant

4. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant Software Architecture DSLs & MDSD ProductLines

5. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant http://www.voelter.de voelter@acm.org skype: schogglad

6. Software Engineering Radio Experience based on almostthreeyearsofand a numberofsmallerpodcasts

7. Thissetupis not intendedfor live recording/mixing (DJ-ing)Weuse a separate postproductionstep.Go to Adam Curry ifyouneed live recordingtips!

9. IRecording

11. Mobile Recording Recorder M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 -or - M-Audio Microtrack II

12. Mobile Recording USB PowerSupply APC Power Pack

13. Mobile Recording Microphones AKG C 520

14. Mobile Recording Setup Wiring

15. Mobile Recording/Skype Setup Wiring

16. Mobile Recording Pricing

18. Studio Recording Mixer Mackie Onyx 1620 incl. Firewire Adapter

19. Studio Recording Microphones Heil PR 40 Shock Mounts Heil SM2 Plus Pop Filters!

21. Audacityor

22. TracktionMakesureyourharddiskisdefragged!

23. Studio Recording Important!Echo Cancelling 

24. Studio Recording Wiring

25. Studio Recording Settings

26. Studio Recording Pricing plus Micbooms EUR 100 each

28. Studio Recording with Voice Strip Voice Strip dbx 286A – Preamp, De-Esser, Enhancer, Expander/Gate Considerablyimprovesthequalityofyourvoice!

29. dbx286A Voice Strip Compressor Smooth thelevels, compresspeakamplitude 8 7

30. dbx286A Voice Strip De-Esser Reducesthehisssssing of „s“ and „sh“ sounds Veryuseful! 4k 4

31. dbx286A Voice Strip Enhancer Enhancesthelowfrequenciesandthehighs – betterthan an equalizer, goodwith de-esser 6.5 3

32. dbx286A Voice Strip Expander/Gate Basicallyreducesquietbackgroundnoisetozero -28 1.6:1

33. Studio Recording with 286A Wiring

34. Studio Recording/Phone Pricing

36. Studio Recording/Phone Telephone HybridTELOS ONE

37. Studio Recording/Phone Wiring

38. Studio Recording/Phone Settings

39. Studio Recording/Phone Pricing

40. Studio Overview

42. Makesureyoudon‘tsaturatethelevelswhenrecording.

44. Striveforgood Signal/Noise.Thisiseasierthancleaningituplater.

45. Usegoodcables!Cablescanbethesourceofsignificantwhitenoise!

46. EQ Add somelowandmid-low, removesomehighfrequencies(people will listen withbadheadphoneswithbad bass – andhigh hiss isannoying)

48. THE END PROFESSIONAL PODCASTINGA guidebased on a coupleofyearsofpodcastingexperience THANKS!

50. PROFESSIONAL PODCASTINGA guidebased on a coupleofyearsofpodcastingexperience MarkusVoeltervoelter@acm.org http://www.voelter.de

52. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant

53. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant Software Architecture DSLs & MDSD ProductLines

54. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant http://www.voelter.de voelter@acm.org skype: schogglad

55. Software Engineering Radio Experience based on almostthreeyearsofand a numberofsmallerpodcasts

56. Thissetupis not intendedfor live recording/mixing (DJ-ing)Weuse a separate postproductionstep.Go to Adam Curry ifyouneed live recordingtips!

58. IISound Editing

60. 1 Normalizing

61. 1 Normalizing

62. 1 Normalizing

63. Do not normalizemusic – destroysthedynamicrange.

65. 2 Denoising(optional)

66. 2 Denoising(optional)

67. 2 Denoising(optional)

68. Do not denoisetoomuch.A littlewhitenoisesoundsnatural. Over-denoisingmakesthingssoundlike in a bucket.Bettersoftwaremakes a bigdifference (Audition > Audacity)!Adaptive Denoisingisconvenient.

70. 3 Compressing(Dynamic Processing)

71. 3 Compressing(Dynamic Processing)

72. 3 Compressing(Dynamic Processing)

73. CompressorSettingsCompress 50 :1 above -20dBExpand 2:1 below -20dBFlat 1:1 below -30dB 3 Compressing (Dynamic Processing)

74. 3b Multiband-Compressing (Thisis an alternative tothecompressor in step 3)Don‘tbotheraboutsettings – usetheBroadcastpreset

75. 4 Normalize (again!)

77. 5 Filter (optional)

79. 6 Nullingthe „quiet“ track(optional) Only do thisifnormalnoisecancellingis not enough. E.g. in caseofmicshufflenoises, coughing, backgroundtalking

80. 6 Nullingthe „quiet“ track(optional)

81. 6 Nullingthe „quiet“ track(optional)

82. 6 Nullingthe „quiet“ track(optional) Attention! Don‘tmakethingstooquiet! (cf. Noisecancelling). Nullingsomethingreallymakesitabsolutelyquiet!

84. EQ Add somelowandmid-low, removesomehighfrequencies(people will listen withbadheadphoneswithbad bass – andhigh hiss isannoying)

85. Data Exchange Use a losslessformat! WAV, FLAC, AIFF

87. IIIContent Editing

89. Don‘tcut all thebreaks!Cutting out breathingbreaksmakesthingssoundartificial.Don‘tmakeittoodense.

90. Be sure that the intonation of the resulting sentence still works!For example, if you want to cut out relative clause that typically does not work, since in the original the sentence before the relative clause ends on a high pitch (because of the imaginary comma). If you remove the relative sentence, the remaining part would need to end on a low pitch (because you’ve replaced the comma with an imaginary full stop).

91. Cut on a zerocrossingor on „s“-sounds These always sound exactly the same for a given person. Vowels sound differently depending on where they are used.

93. THE END PROFESSIONAL PODCASTINGA guidebased on a coupleofyearsofpodcastingexperience THANKS!

95. PROFESSIONAL PODCASTINGA guidebased on a coupleofyearsofpodcastingexperience MarkusVoeltervoelter@acm.org http://www.voelter.de

97. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant

98. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant Software Architecture DSLs & MDSD ProductLines

99. About Markus Voelter Independent Consultant http://www.voelter.de voelter@acm.org skype: schogglad

100. Software Engineering Radio Experience based on almostthreeyearsofand a numberofsmallerpodcasts

101. Thissetupis not intendedfor live recording/mixing (DJ-ing)Weuse a separate postproductionstep.Go to Adam Curry ifyouneed live recordingtips!

103. IVMasteringandEncoding

105. Makesureeverythinghasthesame level.MaybeuseLevelator!

106. Mix Intermediate music a littlebitquieter(itisperceivedtobelouder)

107. Mix Stereoitdoesnotresult in biggerfiles!

108. Ifyouhavetwopeopletalking, mix theirvoice+20/-20 left/right.

109. Create themixdownand save itasWAVuse a variant that LAME understands, eg. Windows PCM, 4 byte PCM

110. UseLAME‘scommandlinetoencodethe MP3 lame.exe -q 0 --lowpass 10 --resample 44 -b 96 ./%1.wav ./%1.mp3 // highest quality // filter high stuff // sample to 44 KHz // 96 Kbps // in/out files

111. UseLAME‘scommandlinetoencodethe MP3 --tt <title> --ty <year> --tn <number> --ta <author> --tl <album> --tg Speech // Episode title // Publication year // Episode no. // Author // Podcast // Category

112. MP3 Bitrate Sample Rate 44100

113. Makesureyouset all theMP3 tags, includingthe cover image.

115. VLicensing

117. Youhavetodefine a license.Do not try to come up with your own license!

118. Creative Commons

119. Customize a licenseforyourwork

120. ExampleLicense

122. VIMusic andStuff

124. Unlessyouknowspecificallywhatyou‘redoing, stayawayfromcommercialmusic.(it‘s a swampof legal risks: licensingfees, GEMA, RIAA)

125. http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos http://music.podshow.com http://podsafeaudio.com/

126. Jingles & Stuff http://newmediacreative.com/ http://thegeoffsmith.com

127. Voices http://eurovoice.de

128. Production Music License-Free Music youcanuse in yourproductions (youpay a fixeddownloadfee, that‘s it.)

129. Production Music Oftenyoucangetseveralvariants, cuts, loops, etc. for a song.

130. Production Music http://www.opuzz.com http://www.neosounds.com/ http://musicbakery.com http://www.smartsound.com/sonicfire http://www.stockmusic.net/ http://www.proudmusiclibrary.com/ http://www.shockwave-sound.com/ http://www.massivetracks.net http://www.stockmusicvault.com http://freeplaymusic.com http://www.themusicase.com/ http://www.soundloopstudio.com http://www.waynejune.com/production_music.html

131. Sound Effects http://www.audionetworkplc.com http://www.stonewashed.net/ http://www.freesound.org/ Thisoneisgreat! ManyEffects, for Free!

133. VIIDistribution

135. Hosting Blogging Engine w/EnclosuresUnlimitedBandwidthadditional 250 MB storageeachmonth… acceptabledownloadspeed… acceptableavailability $10 per month!

136. Podcast Directoriesmakesureyouregisterwith all themainstreamdirectories

137. Podcast Directories: iTunes Store

139. THE END PROFESSIONAL PODCASTINGA guidebased on a coupleofyearsofpodcastingexperience THANKS!