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A podcast seems to me to be like a blog, only presented in audio. You know, something that you can listen to. The question is, when is enough. Now most podcasts/vidcasts are just someone going on and on about themselves, their lives, their drama, in their own little worlds. So who cares? Is who cares really the question, or is it more of a why do people keep caring? Because its easy to do? Because its set-up to be easy? By providing this option to those without power/ability/knowledge, and force feeding it to the masses, via a Live RSS feed is it seems to me a bit silly, but who am I to judge. |
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When I made my album, I had a totally tricked out home studio. Now not so much. While I do miss my old Mutronics Mutator and all of the old outboard gear, I appreciate the simplicity of my current studio surroundings.
As I write this I'm debating between purchasing a new Rode Podcaster Microphone, or buying a decent analog to digital conversion box, as I still have an old Rode NT2 condensor mic. I'm looking specifically at the Presonus 1394 firewire box, as it has 48v phantom power for a real studio mic without the Podcaster's built in 15khz frequency cut-off. But I like the convienience of the Podcaster, with its super simple USB output, and built it headphone jack. I'm really torn, for the $40 price difference, the Podcaster being $178.00, and the Presonus 1394 box being only $149.99, and with the potential of wishing to be able to add line inputs from a guitar, or for vinyl transfer. I think I'd probably be happier with the Presonus and some newer Monster Microphone and RCA cables.
My headphone of choice and situation will be AKG K240DF, as they're one of the things which I've kept from my studio days. They are nice comfy over ears, and should be fine for monitoring myself while I record.
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Which ever solution I end up going with, any audio will be cut-up in Apple's Logic Pro, v7, which is another hold over from the studio days. But truthfully if I didn't already have this application, or facility with it, I would go with Garageband, which I probably will end up using anyway. It just feels wrong to me, but I do need the new iPhoto for graphics work, and since they both come as part of the iLife package, I'll give it a shot. For playback, I have a pair of Yamaha NS-10ms which are amped through an old Sony home audio reciever, less than idyllic but it works for me.
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The really wierd thing about it is, that it isn't difficult to understand within which tags things should go. The difficult part is visualizing what it'll look like when it is live. Being a visual designer by trade, it was/is/will continue to be quasi baffling, as there are no real way to preview what it'll look like without actually creating and submitting the .xml feed unto iTunes. |
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It all starts with an idea, which begets circumstance. If you've got your audio done, and your .xml feed ready to go, with enough space to serve it from, then you know give it a shot with iTunes. It doesn't get any easier to do. Once it's all been uploaded, just hit the submit a podcast button in iTunes, and it'll be live in a day or two. |
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The podcast as a medium is time based, particularly when you go live in the iTunes store. So, if you are trying to podcast an ordered album, as I have, begin with the last track, not with the first. If or rather when you do make this mistake, as I have, it'll make you want to pull out your hair. So be prepared to step back, and to do it again. Third time is the charm, right. |
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Nothing as of yet, (02/17/2008), other than give me a project. |
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