Sound Out Media

I finally found what I’ve been looking for. I’ve want to find an app that would allow me to post soundfiles directly to blogs, Twitter, and Facebook with no fuss, no muss.
Soundcloud is it. And it’s so much more than that. It’s a community of soundmakers .. musicians, documentarians, poets .. if [...]

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I am listening to a stack of Hi8 videotapes (remember them?)
And yes, you read it right. I’m listening. Nice pictures but the sound is what counts because I am trying to pull off audio clips to use in a radio program I’m doing. Because I can’t go to Chennai before my deadline.
When [...]

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Bear with me, folks. I am learning how to embed a sound link in Wordpress (there’s another way to do this .. which is to buy an upgrade which will allow sound and video files. I will likely do this too, but I’ll start with the cheap way ..)
This is a piece that I [...]

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Those of you who have been reading my blog have been reading about my transition from being an Ear person to being an Eye person too.  I am now starting to add pictures to my sounds.
Which is the reverse way most journalists are doing it, so it seems.   Most of the AV journalism being done [...]

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I’ve been editing some long-form interviews today for a client. Not exactly podcasts .. these are talks from a conference in their entirety for the benefit of the people who weren’t able to go.
One of these interviews was something I haven’t had to deal with in a while .. the speaker had a cold. [...]

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Every week I get a new post about a new microphone that’s come onto the market. I’ve heard a lot of podcasts, some of which are recorded well, some of which .. well .. sounds like the producers need to use a different microphone.
Microphones are very personal — like a musical instrument. Just [...]

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