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Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2019 9:26 am**

I am beginning development & creation of a genealogy podcast series called Life in the Past Lane. My Blue Yeti mic, stand (arm), and screen are on their way; arriving next week sometime. I am planning on using anchor.fm (see http://anchor.fm/manyroads ) as my podcast recording and hosting platform- it's free and I'm independently poor. :lipsrsealed:. I, also, plan to make my podcasts available on my ManyRoads Wordpress website; I have a tentative, draft page here ( http://www.many-roads.com/manyroads-genealogy-podcasts/ )

As a person who likes to learn from others, what tips and pointers (lessons-learned) have you experienced that you are willing to share...

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:52 am**

Not that there appears to be much, if any, interest but..

Here are my first podcasts. https://anchor.fm/manyroads

I'm happy to share how I build these on MX if anyone is interested. But given the original 'underwhelming' response, I assume I'm in a very tiny group here. :lipsrsealed:

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:54 pm**

I have heard podcasters say they do use Audacity to edit and process the audio (hiss removal, etc.).

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:03 pm**

I have used (do use) Audacity quite a bit. I'm almost competent at it now. I, also, use sox and ffmpeg (for fixing and merging audio tracks). So far I have not found a wonderful way to capture voice audio on the desktop. I tried ardour as was not enamored, the same with audio-recorder

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:34 pm**

websearch "obs studio audio only" and check out its inbuilt mixer, and surround sound capability and...

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:51 pm**

I have audacity working for recording now. My grandson (5.75 yrs) and I built a Hip-hop version of the Itsy-Bitsy-Spider today (mixed music with his lyrics). He's very happy now that he's a budding hip-hop star.

Edit: this week I'll begin attempting to record sessions with me in Colorado and my associate (friend) in Poland. We're trying the first attempt via Skype audio capture.

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:05 am**

I would say check out the YouTube channel for EposVox:
https://m.youtube.com/user/EposVox/videos
He's quite linux-friendly, but not necessarily MX Linux-friendly. He talks a lot about "prosumer"-grade recording equipment, as well as OBS.

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:04 pm**

ManyRoads are you pleased with Anchor.fm?

How do they make money? I didn't see it explicitly stated but do I gather that they play advertisements on your podcast, sort of like youtube?

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:29 pm**

Have successfully used a headset microphone with audacity, once I had sorted out the mixer to get the right socket on the desktop. One advantage is that mouth to Mic' distance remains constant so less fiddling with audio levels is required.

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 9:49 am**

nathan2423 wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:04 pm ManyRoads are you pleased with Anchor.fm?

How do they make money? I didn't see it explicitly stated but do I gather that they play advertisements on your podcast, sort of like youtube?

The Anchor.fm money making approach is detailed here: https://www.imore.com/anchor-everything-you-need-know

Thanks in large part to anchor.fm my podcasts run on a bunch of platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Overcast,
Here's a Google generated listing: http://tinyurl.com/y25ke4u6

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:35 am**

Big step, manyroads. I noticed that your recording quality improved over the first few 'casts. Good quality control. Tell us more about your equipment and your "studio." What do you use for acoustic dampening?

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:10 pm**

arjaybe wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:35 am Big step, manyroads. I noticed that your recording quality improved over the first few 'casts. Good quality control. Tell us more about your equipment and your "studio." What do you use for acoustic dampening?

Thank you @arjaybe. I have moved all my voice editing to audacity and run some simple Tools on the voice. My mic is a Blue Yeti and I have been working at getting it positioned 'correctly'; if there is such a thing.

I, also, have my "studio" located in an isolated area (read basement office) which I am able to keep pretty quiet. I record in small blocks of time and use ffmpeg to concatenate voice 'snippets' using cli:

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ffmpeg -i "concat:part1.mp3|part2.mp3|part3.mp3" -acodec copy Episode3.mp3

. I, also, have played with sox to build parallel stereo tracks to even the sound, so far that seems to work, although, I'm dubious about it, long term.

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sox mono.wav -c 2 stereo.wav

btw. this seems to work well with mp3 (not just .wav files).

I hope to build and publish a tutorial on what I have learned in a bit.

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 1:09 pm**

manyroads wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:10 pm
arjaybe wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:35 am Big step, manyroads. I noticed that your recording quality improved over the first few 'casts. Good quality control. Tell us more about your equipment and your "studio." What do you use for acoustic dampening?
Thank you @arjaybe. I have moved all my voice editing to audacity and run some simple Tools on the voice. My mic is a Blue Yeti and I have been working at getting it positioned 'correctly'; if there is such a thing. I, also, have my "studio" located in an isolated area (read basement office) which I am able to keep pretty quiet. I record in small blocks of time and use ffmpeg to concatenate voice 'snippets' using cli:
Code: Select all
ffmpeg -i "concat:part1.mp3|part2.mp3|part3.mp3" -acodec copy Episode3.mp3 
. I, also, have played with sox to build parallel stereo tracks to even the sound, so far that seems to work, although, I'm dubious about it, long term.
Code: Select all
sox mono.wav -c 2 stereo.wav 
btw. this seems to work well with mp3 (not just .wav files).

I hope to build and publish a tutorial on what I have learned in a bit.

I record my stories and used to do it in stereo until I was advised that it was an unnecessary complication for the use case. Do you know if stereo is better for recording voice in your case? Maybe the music you play benefits from being 'cast in stereo.

Do you hang blankets or anything to "quiet" the room? I record in a closet, so the clothes do that for me. I also use Audacity for editing. Tip: if you think you might ever compile your 'casts into an audiobook, make sure to set the peaks in Audacity to -3. That's one of the requirements.

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 2:25 pm**

arjaybe wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 1:09 pm [...]

I record my stories and used to do it in stereo until I was advised that it was an unnecessary complication for the use case. Do you know if stereo is better for recording voice in your case? Maybe the music you play benefits from being 'cast in stereo.

Do you hang blankets or anything to "quiet" the room? I record in a closet, so the clothes do that for me. I also use Audacity for editing. Tip: if you think you might ever compile your 'casts into an audiobook, make sure to set the peaks in Audacity to -3. That's one of the requirements.

I have not tried the baffles. I am going to see if recording in a sound insulated bedroom helps. As for mono recording, I do actually record in stereo. If you have not tried the following sox command, you might see if you like the results. It will make your mono recording, faux-stereo.

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sox mono-recording.mp3 -c 2 faux-stereo-recording.mp3

I have added your tip to my ZimWiki 'memory'.

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:15 pm**

manyroads wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 2:25 pm
arjaybe wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 1:09 pm [...]

I record my stories and used to do it in stereo until I was advised that it was an unnecessary complication for the use case. Do you know if stereo is better for recording voice in your case? Maybe the music you play benefits from being 'cast in stereo.

Do you hang blankets or anything to "quiet" the room? I record in a closet, so the clothes do that for me. I also use Audacity for editing. Tip: if you think you might ever compile your 'casts into an audiobook, make sure to set the peaks in Audacity to -3. That's one of the requirements.
I have not tried the baffles. I am going to see if recording in a sound insulated bedroom helps. As for mono recording, I do actually record in stereo. If you have not tried the following sox command, you might see if you like the results. It will make your mono recording, faux-stereo.
Code: Select all
sox mono-recording.mp3 -c 2 faux-stereo-recording.mp3
I have added your tip to my ZimWiki 'memory'.

I was recording in stereo but was advised to switch to mono, since it's just my voice. I took my old recordings and used Audacity to turn them mono, and have recorded in mono since.

Your recordings (after the first one) sound pretty good. I don't hear any nasty echoes or sibilants, but you might see subtler improvements with baffling. Worth a try.

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:23 pm**

@arjaybe I have been recording with both my laptop speakers and mic turned off. That seems to help. I'm guessing it has to do with feedback/echo.

Posted: **Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:13 am**

I just switched to a new recorder (new to me). It seems to work "excellently" with MX.

I'm not a huge fan of its GUI, but aside from being fairly "style-less" it works well. :lipsrsealed:

https://launchpad.net/~audio-recorder

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2019 4:00 pm**

In doing some work on my setups, I have come up with the following list of Video-casting & Podcasting tools (plus their installation locations).

Podcast/ Vidcast Software Apps
1. Audacity-- mxpi 2.3.2
2. Open Broadcaster Studio-- flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio
3. FFaudioConverter-- flatpak install flathub com.github.Bleuzen.FFaudioConverter
4. Avidemux-- flatpak install flathub org.avidemux.Avidemux
5. Kdenlive-- flatpak install flathub org.kde.kdenlive
6. OpenShot Video Editor-- flatpak install flathub org.openshot.OpenShot
7. ardour-- mxpi testrepo
8. Kazam-- available via synaptic or deb download

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