Synaptic Travel
I am hearing the song “Synaptic Travel” by Vasculoid. I actually use part of this song as the opening and closing sounds of my first podcasts. I found this at a very cool site called opsound.org.
Today I really had my first podcasting experience. This podcast is the first of a 3 part series reviewing different, popular podcatchers.
DD Shift Podcatcher Review – 1
My ultimate focus is to choose a podcatcher that we can use in the school. I have limited time to review these, so my analysis is a bit rushed. If you know of a technology coordinator who has already done this type of analysis, let me know! I’m interested in gaining other perspectives.
This was my procedure to create my podcast:
- draft content outline
- find opening and closing music
- record podcast using Audacity and a standard headset/microphone
- use Audacity’s noise reduction to help reduce background noise
- combine music and audio
- export with Audacity as a .wav
- use Levelator to even out the sound
- export with Audacity as .mp3
I have to admit that the quality of the sound in my podcast is not great. The actually recording sounds fine, but when it is export to 128 bit .mp3, the sound becomes echoed, tinny and distorted. In future podcasts, I will play around with the different steps above and some different software to see if I can get better compressed results.
