Posted on Feb 21, 2012 | 0 comments
The Reality of Quality
Broadcasters for the most part have tried to maintain a quality standard for decades now, by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on professional equipment. It wasn’t until funniest home videos that Network TV started to realize that crappy picture and sound quality would be excepted if the content was compelling enough. Of course there is good and bad in that. Let me just say that the reputation of a TV programme does not rest with the quality. Before you think I am defending bad quality, let me...
Posted on Feb 6, 2012 | 0 comments
12 Steps of Podcasting
Here are 12 facts I have been able to dig up on podcasting. As far as I can tell these are as close to the truth when it comes to how it happened as anybody can confirm and may surprise you a little. Early 1970s: Prof. Dieter Seitzer of Erlangen-Nuremberg University in Germany begins wrestling with the problem of compressing music over phone lines. Initially refused research money to pursue the goal, he...
Posted on Feb 4, 2012 | 0 comments
Podcasting – What an...
This blog will try and provide as much information as you need to record and produce a quality audio podcast. The techniques and equipment choices are based on 30+ years of recording everything from live events, documentaries, feature film projects and recorded live television shows sometimes to the entire CBC network where mistakes cannot be taken back or fixed in post.
Posted on Feb 1, 2012 | 0 comments
The Complete Podcasing Pac...
Complete Sound Production Recording – Editing – Music – Effects – Final mix Location Sound Recording Establishing the correct recording environment is paramount to a great recording. Inappropriate background noise can distract the listener from the subject matter. That may mean a lecture hall with an audience and PA system to lend credibility to the speaker or a tightly controlled location with...
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 | 0 comments
Starting a Blog
Everyone has an opinion including, no especially me, but rarely do you get to organize that opinion into something constructive. I attended a conference late last year The Marketing Mastery Summit and one of the speakers was John Chow, as he calls himself the “Infamous” blogger. He spoke about money and how much you can make, how much he made over what time period and how now he doesn’t tell anyone...
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 | 0 comments
The Talks – 2010 Oly...
KAM digital started production on this series in February of 2009 as the Intellectual Muscle series Technical Director. First preparing a technical standards document, with recordings coming in from across Canada there had to be a minimum standard met by all recordings contributed.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012 | 0 comments
Podcast Production
Intellectual Muscle Intellectual Muscle was developed by Vancouver 2010 and the University of British Columbia, in collaboration with universities across Canada and The Globe and Mail. KAM digital started production on this series in February of 2009 as the Intellectual Muscle series Technical Director. A complete explanation of this dramatic series is available here. UBC – Continuing Studies UBC –...
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