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Stories, experiences, what went right and what went horribly wrong. Over the last years in the studio with TV and sound recording and in the field with documentaries and film look for it here from myself and from guests.
TV – Film – Podcasting – Music – Reviews – Standards – Techniques – Best Practises
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 clarify, bad quality sucks and I will...
read moreLocation Podcast Kit Bag
This blog is intended to provide guidelines about minimum standards for podcast recording. In later blogs I will get you details about equipment lists, digital formatting, delivery specifications and more. Location Recording Sometimes the recording will be in studio where quality control can easily be maintained and copy can be repeated until it sounds right. However the greater challenge is location recording of a live event where there is no second chance and you may not have control of the public address system or the presenter’s...
read more12 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 establishes a group of technicians and scientists interested in audio coding research to tackle the problem. Over the next ten years the team...
read morePodcasting – What and Why?
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.
read moreThe Complete Podcasing Package
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 a voice booth which we can provide. Cutting edge digital recording and editing equipment and software is used to produce a professional...
read moreThe Talks – 2010 Olympic Podcasts
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.
read morePodcast 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 – Continuing Studies has produced in excess of 50 feature podcasts on such subjects as; sustainability and climate change, human rights and drug...
read moreMusic Production
A broadcast sound professional has been relied upon for their entire career to find the right music to suit a mood or situation and make it fit an exact time. In the beginning we used other peoples music but with millions of digital samples and intelligent software we have the freedom to cut and tailor music as we see fit. Below is a random sampling of music I created and have used for various projects, most not let out to the general public. You are free to use this music in any project personal or commercial. If you do use any of the tracks...
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