


Second Hint: Remember to turn it back *on* when you finish late at night in the middle of winter. (Hint: turn off air conditioning or heating before starting to record. take out, as much as possible, kids running around upstairs, creaky chair, heating kicking in, etc. one must "synch-up" the different tracks *several* times over the course of the show. Over a 40 minute show, it can be as much as 5-10 seconds! So. I didn't know that, because of different clock speeds in each computer, even if you synch up the beginning of the two files, over time they'll drift apart. I couldn't figure out why it was so difficult until I had coffee with Doug Kaye of IT Conversations a couple of months ago. Then I import both tracks into Audacity and align the two tracks. Since Audition doesn't have RMS normalization, I then run both of our sound tracks through Sony Soundforge to RMS Normalize our individual tracks (get them to the same perceived volume).
SOUNDSOAP VS AUDITION DOWNLOAD
When we're done recording, Mark uploads his end (WAV file) onto the web server, and I subsequently download to my computer. I also record using Audacity (in the process of experimenting with Adobe Audition, but haven't used it yet on a podcast). I record my end using a MXL 990 microphone into a Alesis Multimix FX (non-USB) into a Soundblaster Audigy2 soundcard into my laptop. Mark is recording his end of the show using a Perception 100 microphone with a M-Audio USB Mobile-Pre preamp into his laptop running Audacity. We have two set-ups really one when Mark and I do a double-ender (most of the time), and one when Mark is visiting and we're in the same room.įor the double-ender. "Because you sound great, even when you were podcasting along the beach.
