Podcast- host info?

[peas_and_corn]

I’m looking into making a Simpsons podcast, and am looking around for information regarding hosting- does anyone here know of a good host for the files?

For those who are interested, the podcast will essentially be me and another person (or more, pending successful badgering) having an episode on and talking about the themes and ideas present in the episode. Case in point would be ‘Much Apu About Nothing’- the podcast will be about the use of issues to create scaremongering to shore up political support, and the use of immigrants (illegal or otherwise) as a scapegoat to justify certain action or policies (in this case, high taxes).

[Phil]

Funnily enough I was having a very similar conversation with a friend of mine last night. I second this request for hosting info.

[pfm]

Check these guys out.

[Danny Stephenson]

A one off fee of ?10. Jesus even I might set one up!

[peas_and_corn]

ooh, sounds interesting!!

Those of you who do podcasts- what sort of sound editing programmes do you guys use for sounds clean up etc?

[pfm]

You can use Sound Forge for that. Although it’s definitely possible to do a podcast just using the crappy Sound Recorder with Windows. You can edit stuff out with that.

[Danny Stephenson]

But please don’t use Sound recorder… it only records 60 seconds at a time. It’s shit and i mean that most sincerely.

Sony SoundForge is very good, and very easy to use.

Adobe Audition is quite good.

if you dont want to down that route, there is a free editor and recorder called Audacity, i dont know how good it is, but my mates rave about it. By that, I don’t mean that they throw shapes around the monitor…

[peas_and_corn]

Hmm…

Cheers for the advice so far guys, it’s a real help :) I’m considering getting a dictaphone and recording on that and transferring to the computer for cleanup and uploading- would this be a good idea?

[Danny Stephenson]

> I?m considering getting a dictaphone

Use your finger, you dirty get!!

Budum tsh!

To be honest mate the best idea is to just get a cheapy microphone, and directly record into your computer. If it’s one of those digital dictaphone things then yeah, that should work fine.

[peas_and_corn]

I just found out that my uni provides a service to convert .wav files into mp3 files- could this be a good way to go; recording in .wav and getting it converted? Sure, I’ll be using uni resources, but meh.

[Danny Stephenson]

there are free programs that will convert wav’s to mp3s mate..

Goto Download.com and look up “audio converters”

[Danny Stephenson]

Wavs (if you didn’t know this) are the purest form of audio, uncompressed, but they do take up an bit of space (10Mb/min), but mp3’s are usually around the 1Mb/min mark. I usually record into .wav and then compress, at least then I have the master if I ever need to re-compress it.

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