For those of you who follow our podcast regularly, you know that our new episodes come out every Tuesday. Well this upcoming Tuesday is Christmas and we have a special holiday gift - a nearly two-and-a-half hour interview with comic book creator Ross Campbell, writer / artist of Wet Moon, The Abandoned, and much more. We talk about past projects, current projects, future projects, and the world of superhero storytelling. Don’t miss it!
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The Holidays are fast approaching, and that means that The AudioShocker may be updated a little less regularly during the next couple of weeks. Nick, Justique, and I will do our best to keep you bathed in media - but please excuse us if we miss a TV Wrapup of the week or the podcast posts a day late. Thanks for reading and keep on shocking!
As you may have noticed, we’ve been doing a little renovation around here. I want to keep things simple, so I’ve been playing with the K2 theme. K2 is the evolution of the default WP theme Kubrick. I think it looks cleaner, and you can actually read the header now.
I have also been helping my friend Kirsten ‘The Kitchen’ Carleton with her delicious food blog Yumbrosia. We used the Falling Dreams theme by Razvan Teodorescu, but it needed some modifications. Kirsten thought the original theme was too wide, not red enough, and disliked the sidebar and header. Easy peasy! Next up? Figuring out how to remove the hover/popups.
If you have suggestions for us, or think you could do better (I am new to blog design) - please let me know!
Email me at neal@audioshocker.com
As you can see, we’ve got a link to our iTunes page up on the site now. Go write us a review! Make it dirty, cause we like it like that.
So we got the first episode recorded. After searching online forever, I found a program called HotRecorder. It works with Skype and only costs $15. It was the best way to go for us since I’m working on a Mac. It can record as high quality or as compressed as we want. It was def the way to go.
But the first episode did ramble on, so Neal suggested we try segments. Look out for some more uniform music, movies, and comics discussion on next Tuesday’s episode. It’ll be a more manageable length too, about 45 mins.
And in other business, to claim our PodcastAlley feed I need to post this link and crazy string of characters on the blog:
AudioShocker at PodcastAlley {pca-6d1ba1f91c504955fe611615af0641dd}
While you’re at it, go leave us a review on Podcast Alley and iTunes. And you can always call the comment line at 412-567-7606.
EDIT: Okay, I made a boo boo on my first post. The program I’m using is Call Recorder from the Ecamm Network. HotRecorder is the one that only works for PC. Call Recorder is Mac compatible. And it rules. It also records video conversations. Plus it comes with some great media conversion programs.
It’s harder than you would think. Recording the actual podcast, that is. Neal setup the blog and podcast web infrastructure with success over the course of a couple days. And he did it well. But getting the actual podcast product proves to be a bit trickier.
First off, there’s the distance. Neal lives in Illinois and I live in Pennsylvania. That means this is going to be a “call in” podcast, especially if we decide to do interviews in the future. So Skype was my natural first choice for getting the damn thing done. Coupled with Sunflower - an application that allows me to reroute the internal audio of my computer into the recording program of my choice (in my case, Audacity) - I can do everything internally in my machine.
Skype is also a great choice because it allows me to make both domestic and international phone calls from my computer if I choose to do so. This would allow for interviews easily in the future. But alas, the free computer-to-computer calling program has serious buffering issues on my iMac G4, and making it record smoothly could take some serious work. Continue reading ‘The Making Of: Getting Audio for the Shocker’
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