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I've been podcasting so long that I once made an episode about... the Blackberry podcast store!! 🤣

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Substitute teacher in elementary school kept calling me Raymond. Repeatedly corrected them, my name is just, Ray. By the third time, I got loud, that’s not my name! Sent to principal’s office. Made my case. Facts (back when they mattered) on my side. Innocent;) Sent back to class.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

All mics are USB mics. And if your response is, "I never thought about it that way." That was the true goal;) 🤔https://youtube.com/shorts/0vibGACJt_g?feature=share

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The #Target rollback makes zero business sense to me. It has to be just pure cruelty from the top. Happy to return the favor. Punish the f*ck out of em. Take your biz elsewhere, there are plenty of same options.🖕

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Boring Test Video returns with a listen to the MV7+'s USB vs XLR output. Do you hear a difference? Is one of them "bad"? 🥱https://youtu.be/p9dDklWJv8E

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Still really excited about this. Working on version 1.1 right now. Updated design. Looking really clean.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The ATR2100 has been a widely recommended, budget mic. in podcasting for a long time now. Great audio, good price. However it has one major drawback I've noticed over the years... sibilance. If you have one, almost certainly it needs de-essing. Here's how I handle that youtu.be/D2yc4IBUS3o

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is actually leveled audio. Everyone in this podcast ep. sounds equally loud. "Loudness," how humans perceive sound, is partly a function of the tone of a person's voice (high vs low) ex: most people perceive 2–4 kHz louder than lower frequencies. Here's how I 'level' audio youtu.be/_vecHTGK7Yo

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

No friggin' way did I just create my first Chrome extension using ChatGPT! Worked (even better than planned) on the first try. Unreal. Details and release at some point soon-ish, I guess LOL. If you're a creator that uses screenshots and/or does screen recordings, you might love it.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Harsh sounding but your podcast is likely to remain amateur if you can't elevate the quality of your guest's audio. A few steps to change this: - When scheduling your guest, ask what options they have for a microphone and use in this order (USB, earbuds, computer). - Try to avoid the webcam mic.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

New review of an unexpected mic. The MV7i is also an audio interface. Plug any other mic. or even instrument into the combo XLR port on the bottom and it outputs 2 channel audio via USB-C. Full review: youtu.be/d23GevNtyks

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Got the day off, donated to www.habitat.org, thanks Jimmy. RIP

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

New, the Shure MV7i, a very unexpected mic. A 2 channel, audio interface built into the mic means you can plug any other microphone or instrument into the XLR combo input and get two separate audio channels into your computer or mobile device via 1 USB-C connection. youtube.com/shorts/QSWUN...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

When the sibilance is so bad, it sounds like someone is whistling in your ear. Don't let that happen to your audience! youtu.be/D2yc4IBUS3o Also, what is sibilance exactly? My definition here apparently is debatable, that was unexpected.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

👏 This is what I was waiting for.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

New entry into 'gear I don't need but want to try' category www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/18... (aff. link) On sale & looks like it checks all the boxes I'd want if recommending this kind of device (🎤 mute switch) All metal, no click, works w/ condensers, dynamics, activators, etc. Will review!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Nice small bump in followers recently, thanks all! Would love if @bsky.app gave us some indication of where people found you ex: "followed from Starter Pack: , followed from search: , or followed from: "user." And of course you could turn it off in settings if you didn't want to share. 🤔

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The script isn't done cause I'm easily distracted but the distraction was cleaning up gear storage & now the this drawer is just mics. 🎤🎙️ Went looking for my most sibilant mic., and the mess was too much to ignore, this is better. Also interesting, this was shot using iPhone ProRes (needs a LUT)

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

OK, time to write a script for the next video at youtube.com/rayortega, this one is about sibilance. Do you write scripts, an outline, just wing it? I've definitely changed over the years, outlines were the thing, and while I don't like to read scripts, they're now an important first step.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

In the age-old question of, do you keep your raw files, I usually don't but I have. Always feels like an arbitrary decision. Audio adds up when you have a long podcast w/ multiple people. Video is always just massive file sizes. I, at least, keep a non-compressed version of the final production.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

If you're interviewed on another podcast and it goes well/you are happy with their final product, why not put that into your own podcast feed? Your audience would be interested and that podcaster would get a nice boost for their own show. You are already receiving a boost from their audience.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I really enjoy Adobe Podcast's Enhance Speech tool, I use it for some noise cleanup and in that process it does a good job at knocking down other issues like plosives, sibilance and reverb (huge + here). They released v2 and apparently it's...worse. Stick to v1. @adobecreativecloud.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Honored to be included in this Starter Pack, my first. If you follow me then you'll definitely be interested in this group of follows. Thanks, Justin for creating it and including me go.bsky.app/GwvUD75

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

First decision when starting a podcast... deciding what your podcast is going to be about. When I started, I took advice from an author who said, "write about what you know about." Hemingway may have said it first. For podcasters, I'd add: create a podcast about something you want to know about