The latest episode of the Touch Sound Podcast – an audio podcast that looks at mobile music making – is now available.
You can listen to the podcasts through the embed above, via the podcast’s site or you can subscribe to the podcast by adding this URL to your podcast client app:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/touchsoundpodcast
Free Music Friday: This just came in via our new Submit A Story page: The Ember Music Podcast is the first in a series of regular podcasts that will highlight the ambient and electronic musicians of the Ember Music label.
In the first episode, embedded above, learn more about the background and creative processes of Savaran, MobiusB, Kurt Lorenz and Slaphappy Mortician and hear a track by each.
Check out the Ember Music Podcast and leave a comment with your thoughts! Continue reading
Blue Microphones has introduced Yeti, the first THX Certified microphone and, according to the company, the “ultimate USB microphone for professional recording.”
Yeti Features:
The Yeti microphone is designed to offer quality recordings in a wide range of situations, including podcasts, vocals, live or event recording, interviews, broadcasts, instruments, bands and more.
“THX testing and certification ensures the fidelity of the recording always remains true to its source” according to Matthew Chrispen, director of certification at THX, “allowing artists to accurately capture voice-overs, interviews and other sound elements with confidence.”
The Yeti, MSRP $149.99, will be available beginning December 2009.
If you’ve used the Yeti microphone, leave a comment with your thoughts on it!
Raul Pena’s The Making of Raul’s World of Synths is a short documentary, created as a school project, that outlines Pena’s process for creating his synthesizer podcast, Raul’s World Of Synths. Continue reading
Free Music Friday: The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
They’ve got 5,000 free MP3s that you can download already, and more in the works.
And yes – you can go straight to the electronic music.
Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by outdated copyright law. Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won’t put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.
Submit Your Music
If you want to share your music at the Free Music Archive, email artists “at” freemusicarchive.org with a link to your work for consideration. Please indicate if there is a particular FMA curator who has showcased our work in the past.
macProVideo.com has released GarageBand 103: Podcasting In GarageBand, a new Garageband training tutorial.
This tutorial teaches valuable podcasting skills including recording and editing podcasts, using GarageBand’s built-in DSP effects to compress and EQ your voice to give it that big podcast sound, making enhanced podcasts with images and URL links listeners can click, and publishing your podcast on iTunes or through iWeb.
There’s a detailed section on recording remote interviews with people over the web via Skype.