DwM Roundtable #3

Making an MP3 with a PC

We look at just one of the many ways to create an MP3 file on a MS-Windows system.

One of the most popular pieces of software is Audacity, which you can download for free from here.
You'll also want to download the LAME.DLL

Another free piece of software mentioned is TagScanner to help with ID3 tags.

Next time we'll talk about the next step, using Libsyn.com

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DwM Roundtable #2

The Equipment Check

Show 2 gets into how we actually make our podcasts. Greg and Jennifer Willits of the Rosary Army , Michael Kreidler of the BreadCast, Fr. Jay Finelli of iPadre and me, George Leite of Going Fourth and Catholic Rockers got together to discuss our hardware and software choices over the year.

Greg and Jennifer are using

• Yamaha MG10/2 mixer
• MXL770 Mics
• Edirol USB
• iRiver 795
• Sony ECMMS907 Digital Recording Microphone
  

Michael is using

• Can and String

Fr. Jay has

• Mac Powerbook

A podcasting kit from Guitar Center which included

• Alesis Multimix 8USB mixer
• 2 MXL V63M Condenser Studio Microphones
• AKG K44 Headphones
• stands and cables

and for travel he uses

• Sony Pro MZ-M100 Hi-MD Portable Audio Recorder

George is using

• Behringer ub1204 mixer
• Behringer B-1 mic
• IBM T23 Thinkpad
• Sony mz-r37 mini-disc

Michael confessed he is really using

• Audio-Technica ATM89R Mic
• Tascam US122 USB interface

For software on the PC we use a combination of

• Audacity
• Adobe Audition
• CastBlaster

On the Mac, Fr. Jay uses

• Garage Band
• Quicktime
  

For file storage, most of us use
Libsyn.com
Fr Jay uses goDaddy.com

For the RSS feed, we talked about Feedburner.com to hide the actual URL of the RSS.

Fr. Jay's Mac book Pro is shipping on Friday!

Podcasts we mention are
Catholic Under the Hood
Digital Audio Deli w/ Fr. Stan Fortuna


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DwM #1 - The experiment begins

Bonus Feed - The DwM Roundtable

This is what you might call the pilot for a whole new show. Greg and Jennifer Willits of the Rosary Army , Michael Kreidler of the BreadCast and me, George Leite of Going Fourth and Catholic Rockers got together to discuss Catholic podcasting. Well at least we talked about it part of the time, between the laughs and bad movie quotes.

We talk a little tech, a little hope, and a whole lot of fun. This is the first in what we hope will be many more DwM Roundtables to discuss Catholic podcasting, so of the hows, and some of the whys. We started with 3 connections to test things out, and will add more participants, keep juggling the line-up around, but will always include some fun.

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