Podcast: A Reaction to the Process.

The process of scripting, recording and editing my podcast was a typical experience as far as working with the digital medium. Figuring out the recorder was the most challenging aspect of the process. But the challenge of even that was not much than what I was mentally prepared to deal with. All worked out well and after last minute revisions to my script due to a change in my actual guest I got down to the business of interviewing Lowell. We had fun doing it, it ran real smooth as far as getting my subject to feel comfy and let the ideas flow. I experimented with some mic placements and have achieved a sort of stereo proximity effect with the aural location of my voice sources. they seem to originate in differed stereo hemispheres as I moved the facing of the mic in different directions So I thought that was pretty cool. So then it was back to the studio for some post-production sessions with my raw footage. I got to business with a quickness. I was truly amazed at how many as, umms, and throat clearings there were. So I set out to get rid of the extra sound effect. It took me a long while to properly split and crop my wav files so they were cut precisely and without infringement or excess vocal media attached to my play cuts. It was monotonous to say the least, there were just so many speech errs. You would never notice how many in a everyday conversation. So I cleaned up the rough ends and took a break for the night. The following night (I think as soon as the sun drops my sound hat comes on, cause I rarely do audio in the day), I got back into the swing of the cast. I listened to my rough edit again and was pleased with the results of my labor the night before. Had a few minor details to deal with and off I went to work on the musical section of my piece the circuit bend outtro. For this I could get creative and the synthesis of the circuit-bend was the sweetest part of the pie. I tossed up a little amen break with a little bend sonics and samples from pertinent sections of my interview. I scooped and looped. I even threw in some samples and effects over the top to give message to my meaning. It was fun and I would definitely do this again. Definitely.........