Home podcasting studio
August 4th, 2005 | by Tim Wilson |If I haven’t posted anything in a few days it has mostly to do with the fact that I’ve been spending much of my evening time figuring out and playing with my new “home studio.” Although I haven’t posted many podcasts yet, I feel comfortable in the interview format and I needed to figure out a way to record Skype conversations. After working with Hugo Schotman’s design that utilizes Audio Hijack Pro, I couldn’t get rid of the latency in my headphones. (Latency is the delay introduced by the signal processing that happens as sound is routing through a system like a computer.) Thanks to Doug Kaye of IT Conversations fame, I discovered his diagram showing a method of recording Skype calls that utilizes an inexpensive portable mixer.
So here’s the current setup in the home studio. If you click on either of these photos you’ll go to Flickr to see the full-size versions. At that point you can mouse over the photos to see some annotations that I’ve added which identify the components and how they’re connected. (On a side note, and to keep this post education-related, this Flickr feature is relatively unknown and has some great potential as a learning tool.)
I’ve got some good ideas for interviews so don’t be surprised if some of you out there gets calls from me asking if you’d like to appear on the Savvy Technologist Podcast.
Tags: flickr, Podcasting and iPod
7 Responses to “Home podcasting studio”
By James on Aug 4, 2005 | Reply
I don’t even do a podcast but want one of those… bloody hell that’s a nice set up!
By David on Aug 6, 2005 | Reply
Nice setup! Do you record everything on your flash recorder and than upload it to your computer? (Audio Hijack Pro?)
By Tim Wilson on Aug 8, 2005 | Reply
Right. I do all of the recording on the Marantz. This eliminates any possibility of a problem with my laptop ruining a podcast midstream. I always plug my headphones into the Marantz so I can monitor things exactly as they’re being recorded.
By Mike Huckabee on Aug 9, 2005 | Reply
I concur, your home studio looks great.
BTW- another place to find out how to podcast is techpodcasts.com they are hosting an interactive show this weekend. I plan to attend.
By Wesley Fryer on Aug 13, 2005 | Reply
How do you create those imagemap links with flickr, Tim?
By Tim Wilson on Aug 15, 2005 | Reply
Wes, when viewing your photo (or a photo from someone who counts you as a contact), just click “Add Note” near the upper-left corner of the photo. Then you can draw a rectangle somewhere on your photo and add the annotation. Good luck.
By Leon Cych on Aug 17, 2005 | Reply
Nice kit and setup - chek out the UK version - we are focusing on Moodle at present because a VLE explosion is about to happen on these shores:
http://www.l4l.co.uk/@blog
Cheers,
Leon Cych