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This looks cool. Thanks, Arin for the heads up.
I wish it wasn’t necessary for developer to build their own APIs for these social sites like myspace. I wish there was just a comprehensive API to begin with.
I recently helped this nice lady out with her WordPress blog. She’s a dog lover (like me) and realtor.
Djuna Woods specializes in dog-friendly real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area and especially the Menlo Park area. I like the idea of people putting their efforts toward something specific like this. It’s smart, helpful, holistic and effective (especially online).
One of Chris Andersen’s “thousand of niches” for sure.
Currently on OSX 10.4.11
GOODBYE AZUREUS HELLO TRANSMISSION
I’m going to miss the cute frog I’ve gotten so used to relying on.
But what I’m not going to miss is VUZE or VUSE or whatever, the media portal that Azureus started making me look at a while back. There hasn’t been any settings for making it so Azureus launches into “advanced” view, so every freaking time I launch Azureus, I end up having to deal with that Vuze shit.
Goodbye Azureus. Hello Transmission!
Transmission is light-weight, user-friendly, smart, Open-Source… Do I need to go on? It’s just way better.
Sorry, cute, shiny frog. Goodbye. I doubt I’ll ever look back. But I will miss the froggy.
I’m writing this through FireFox. I’m only using FireFox because Flock and Safari are both shit-out-of-luck with the recent wordpress.com back-end upgrade.
I hate this.
I hate using FireFox. I like Safari because it’s native to osx and it’s not buggy (and it’s fast). I like Flock for all the reasons people like FireFox, and then some.
Why do i have to use FireFox if I don’t like it? This sucks.
I can’t post blogs with either Flock or Safari.
I’m using OSX 10.4
Please fix this, WordPress wizards!
I like The New WordPress basically. It’s gonna take some getting used to though.
But on my first post, I noticed I can’t use the link adding popup thing. IT’S BLANK!!!!
ARGH!
I finally got this whole multi-browser system down and now WordPRess doesn’t work with Flock?
NOOO!!!
After some experimentation, I found this is a good, quick, cheap way to get your audio levels for spoken word material up to snuff in a jiffy, without needing to understand much of anything about the technical aspect. Only requirement: a Mac.
Of course, all sources should be processed this way individually if possible.
If you’re recording Skype calls with CallRecorder, you should use Ecamm’s free tool (zip file download) for extracting the individual tracks from the saved Quicktime movie and import each side of the conversation into GarageBand on its own track.
Volume should be optimized for -0.5 db. Personally, I wouldn’t rely on an automatic process like Levelator for this. Maybe I’m old-school. I think it’s best to process each instrument/track with the following, in this order:
A. EQ (mainly to reduce rumble, plosives (‘P’ sound blasts), if there are any)
B. Compressor (Lessens the dynamic range of the material, allowing you to increase the volume with less clipping (overloading))
C. Limiter (takes care of the occasional clipping that occurs once you compress and boost the volume)
Then, put an additional Limiter on a Master Track, just in case.
Here’s how you could approach this using GarageBand:
Since GarageBand only has two open-ended plugin slots per instrument/track, you can take care of the EQ and Compression in one step (more or less), by using Apple’s built-in “AUMultibandCompressor” plugin (comes standard with every Mac). Assign the first plugin slot to “AUMultibandCompressor,” and the second slot to “AUPeakLimiter.” (pic)
A good place to start for setting up the Compression is the “Gentle” preset. Then, to get to the settings so you can fine-tune, click the little pencil button. First turn up the pre-gain volume until you have plenty of compression happening. You’ll know because all four of the meters on the bottom will be active almost all the time there is sound coming from that track (pic below).
Then, turn up the post-gain volume until the track’s meter (pic below) in the main GarageBand window is hitting the top on all the louder syllables, like the ones that start with P’s or K’s.
Do all this with the Tracks’ volume settings at their default positions. Only use the compression’s post-gain setting to increase the volume of the tracks, that way the Peak Limiter’s default settings will be in the right place. If the Limiter was set to stop the volume from going over -0.5db and you increased the tracks volume to +3db, the result would be that the audio could reach +2.5db, which is too loud. So leave the track volumes alone and only work with the gain controls in the settings for the Compressor plugin so that the Limiter’s -0.5 is the same as the Track Volume’s -0.5… (sorry if that’s confusing)
The goal is for the track volumes to get as high as possible without ever triggering the little virtual clip indicator lights (pic). If they do get set off, they reset by clicking on them.
If a track’s audio is hitting the red in the meter, but never tripping the clip indicators (pic), you’ve achieved the sweet spot of plenty loud, but not too loud).
Your podcast will seem as loud as everything else out there. Hurray!
NOTE:
If there is a lot of rumble from breath or microphone handling, or ‘Pops’ from P sounds (plosives), you can cut the Low-EQ of the track by reducing the “EQ 1″ setting of the compression plugin.
ANOTHER NOTE: If the sound starts to seem too artificial-sounding (squashed), back off on the pre-gain a little and compensate with the post-gain to get it back up to an adequate level (hitting the orange and red fairly frequently while never setting off the clip indicators)
I just tracked down and reinstalled one of my most favorite little things to have in my Dock:
It draws on top of everything else you see on your screen so you can take screen-captures that have circles around things etc… Example:
Step 2. Click on this button:
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