1 year, 10 months ago
Where is a good resource or course to learn radio style audio production?
I was listening to Adam Curry's newly resurrected Daily Source Code, and was dazzled by how professional it sounded. I wanted to look into learning how learn something like ableton live for specifically vocal production and the production of jingles and sound bites? Can anyone help me out?
I am looking for a web resource or something that doesn't rely on me being location dependant.
Adam's podcast my ideal target: http://curry.com/?p=2144
I am looking for a web resource or something that doesn't rely on me being location dependant.
Adam's podcast my ideal target: http://curry.com/?p=2144
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Im a good resource. I did it myself, and you're about to learn how, right here, right now.
The first clip is a a before and after: It's how I sounded the moment I first stepped in front of a microphone in January, 1990 vs how I sounded on the air two years later. The second clip has a few live-reads from the end of a tailgate party show I did in...1991? (we realized later that the script I was reading for those--provided by the station--was missing a few words, but i just rolled with it. So it didn't take 2 years.
I never went into broadcasting professionally after over 3 years on the air in college (including some live remotes), but I did do a few voiceovers as a hobby. I still keep my voice in shape. The last one I just sat down and did as a demo this past October, following a few years of occupational, physical and (gasp!) speech therapy after a serious injury. The script was a brochure from their office.
Hearing is proof. I've never gone to a broadcasting school or taken a production course. The Art Store, Ice Cream Shop and hospital commercials I produced at home, in my PJ's. Thank you, internet and mp3.
I'll let you know how I changed my voice: It was 100% free, but there was a method to it.
The studio had an "aircheck" or "skimmer" cassette deck (hey, it was 1990!). Throw the blank in and press record. power only comes on when you turn the mic switch on. So I have dozens of tapes that are all filled with just clips of me talking! I had an hour-long walk home, so I'd pop the cassette into a Walkman and listen...and listen and listen. I'd listen to myself and say "No, I didn't pronounce that quite right" or something like that. It just progressed naturally. Now, with everything being computerized, it's very easy to do another run-through if I don't like the sound. Keep at it--it's doable.
I never really did production until 2004 (I had produced some bits old-school style with knife and tape and reel-to-reel in the 90s). I produced all three of the commercials here sitting right at my desk--without an expensive setup. It was all trial and error, just producing things for no reason. Cllick the archive link below and listen to the JetBlue bit. I was home alone--my wife and son were on vacation--and JetBlue had left people sitting on a plane for hours. I was bored, so I sat down and produced that bit-.. I liked it. -Ten minutes, tops. It's amazing--it's just like using a word processor, but you're visually placing pieces of sound where you want them along a time-line..
A tip if you're doing it on a low budget: I know some podcasters who have gone out and spent hundreds on Sennheiser or ElectroVoice mics...read the freq response. If it's a mic that covers 20Hz-20,000 Hz, that's the human ear's limit. So if you find a mic with that response, it's going to be a question of how much background sound it picks up, and how good the processing is. Notice the stuff dune on my PC is cleaner than the stuff from an actual AM/FM simulcast show.. My entire setup, mic, pre-amp, software, sound effects, the whole thing--ball park it at a hair over one hundred twenty-five dollars...and there's a studio in my home office, right on my desk whenever I want it.
The first clip is a a before and after: It's how I sounded the moment I first stepped in front of a microphone in January, 1990 vs how I sounded on the air two years later. The second clip has a few live-reads from the end of a tailgate party show I did in...1991? (we realized later that the script I was reading for those--provided by the station--was missing a few words, but i just rolled with it. So it didn't take 2 years.
I never went into broadcasting professionally after over 3 years on the air in college (including some live remotes), but I did do a few voiceovers as a hobby. I still keep my voice in shape. The last one I just sat down and did as a demo this past October, following a few years of occupational, physical and (gasp!) speech therapy after a serious injury. The script was a brochure from their office.
Hearing is proof. I've never gone to a broadcasting school or taken a production course. The Art Store, Ice Cream Shop and hospital commercials I produced at home, in my PJ's. Thank you, internet and mp3.
I'll let you know how I changed my voice: It was 100% free, but there was a method to it.
The studio had an "aircheck" or "skimmer" cassette deck (hey, it was 1990!). Throw the blank in and press record. power only comes on when you turn the mic switch on. So I have dozens of tapes that are all filled with just clips of me talking! I had an hour-long walk home, so I'd pop the cassette into a Walkman and listen...and listen and listen. I'd listen to myself and say "No, I didn't pronounce that quite right" or something like that. It just progressed naturally. Now, with everything being computerized, it's very easy to do another run-through if I don't like the sound. Keep at it--it's doable.
I never really did production until 2004 (I had produced some bits old-school style with knife and tape and reel-to-reel in the 90s). I produced all three of the commercials here sitting right at my desk--without an expensive setup. It was all trial and error, just producing things for no reason. Cllick the archive link below and listen to the JetBlue bit. I was home alone--my wife and son were on vacation--and JetBlue had left people sitting on a plane for hours. I was bored, so I sat down and produced that bit-.. I liked it. -Ten minutes, tops. It's amazing--it's just like using a word processor, but you're visually placing pieces of sound where you want them along a time-line..
A tip if you're doing it on a low budget: I know some podcasters who have gone out and spent hundreds on Sennheiser or ElectroVoice mics...read the freq response. If it's a mic that covers 20Hz-20,000 Hz, that's the human ear's limit. So if you find a mic with that response, it's going to be a question of how much background sound it picks up, and how good the processing is. Notice the stuff dune on my PC is cleaner than the stuff from an actual AM/FM simulcast show.. My entire setup, mic, pre-amp, software, sound effects, the whole thing--ball park it at a hair over one hundred twenty-five dollars...and there's a studio in my home office, right on my desk whenever I want it.
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In addition to being an on-air personality for over three years, doing some live-remote broadcasts and a the few radio spots, I've appeared in 2 clocal TV commercials--one on-camera (the pitch-man for a new store!) and one off-camera (voiceover only).
Hear more at http://garyallen.mp3-archives.com/
Reply to t his answer to contact me with questions.
In addition to being an on-air personality for over three years, doing some live-remote broadcasts and a the few radio spots, I've appeared in 2 clocal TV commercials--one on-camera (the pitch-man for a new store!) and one off-camera (voiceover only).
Hear more at http://garyallen.mp3-archives.com/
Reply to t his answer to contact me with questions.
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Pittsburgh has undergone a remarkable transformation over the decades and at last is showing signs of being a 'green community'. As the dark cloud of industrial grit become cleansed from its sandstone churches, libraries, monuments and symbolic Cathedral of learning a bright green place with an honorable (if troubled past) has emerged. This is especially true in the marketplace of ideas where communicating with others is the key to success. The area of nanoconversion technologies are emerging on a daily basis - these developments are vital to realizing the full potential of what the millennial generation (also called Generation Green) knows as cloud computing. The virtuality of cyberspace.empowers the tremendous efficiency and high quality of these communication devices; today social networking networks can utilize audio/visual in almost any form (live or recorded) from almost anywhere on-demand. This alone is a tremendous accomplishment - but is only the bottom line here.
One organization that has greatly accelerated the need for this potential is the 1400 member Pittsburgh Technology Council which is helping the 'emerald isle' which hosted the World's G20 Summit to pay for the infrastructure changes which make this 'green revolution' so timely.....yet expensive. Recreating the vital industrial base of the Ohio Valley region is no mean feat but one can tune into the Ptc Tech Vibe radio program on KQV Am 1410 and learn about what is going on.
If their is to be an economic recovery worth talking about then these efforts and energies need to become highly focused. To help accomplish this the Pittsburgh Technology Council has founded -an Entrepreneur Resource Center designed to achieve success through collaboration, programming and exposure - coordinated with sales channels and marketing initiatives and funding available through the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
Green Internet Technologies are providing the policies and practices required for this; as far as these new technologies are concerned - today; the recycling of electronic devices is a reality in most major appliance 'super stores'. But let us not forget - all things are not equal; most people do not subscribe to these ideas directly - community relations must be improved if the potential of this great transformation is to be realized; especially in the vital area of economic recovery. There is a need to develop community - social networking dedicated to idea-sharing.that can help to accomplish this. Planning resources like internationalization strategies and business opportunities are needed to keep regional manufacturers competitive in the global market. And of course we need to advocate important issues to government and thereby facilitate legislative action.
* green technology - leverage strategic plans to position the region as an energy hub
* G20 conference - need for enlightened resource mgmt
* funding sources - investor awareness - intensely competitive business environment
* software to produce - http://www.eleganteggshell.net/ OEM software discounts
Engineering concepts utilize the quantum field and nanotechnology - it is now integral to all computers and their discrete audio/visual networking capabilities.
for collaboration
* strategic planning research and development
* social networking resources and technology
* building community - personal introductions and roundtables
* Energy strategy for the green building industry
How ideas shape visualization depends upon the ethics of using these technologies, what, where, how, and who created and are promoting their introduction into the marketplace. This is essential when considering the discreteness of nanoconvergence - nanomaterials, bioengineering, information systems and cognitive science (psychology). The critical paradigms of sustainability; holistic integrity; and energy efficiency underwrite the importance of realization - the realization of a proverbial bottom line which can reverse the present downward spiral of economic stagnation and long term debt. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones is one adage that comes to mind. This 'quantum leap' must be synchronized within society with open source education - those who will perform the work must understand the basic principles which they are using in their production. It is an important point to remember when considering nanoconvergent technology in the workplace - look before you leap.
Has the storm caused us to pause for a moment of suspense - perhaps some insight from my own recent audio/visual experience can help. This morning I watched the 1983 release - Koyaanisqati (Life out of Balance - from the Hopi language) by Francis Ford Coppola after attending a heart warming movie - The Last Station about Tolstoyan society the night before. Changes as vast as the apocalyptic vision of Koyaanisqati become expeidiant for survival or as sublime as the messianic one of The Last Train depict a serious contrast. What can keep us together in the immense journey of life and anchor our souls will determine the future. The light fantastic does not have to be a vision of doom - this much generation green and its millennials has already proven.........even in the face of our world's biblical proportions.
Pittsburgh has undergone a remarkable transformation over the decades and at last is showing signs of being a 'green community'. As the dark cloud of industrial grit become cleansed from its sandstone churches, libraries, monuments and symbolic Cathedral of learning a bright green place with an honorable (if troubled past) has emerged. This is especially true in the marketplace of ideas where communicating with others is the key to success. The area of nanoconversion technologies are emerging on a daily basis - these developments are vital to realizing the full potential of what the millennial generation (also called Generation Green) knows as cloud computing. The virtuality of cyberspace.empowers the tremendous efficiency and high quality of these communication devices; today social networking networks can utilize audio/visual in almost any form (live or recorded) from almost anywhere on-demand. This alone is a tremendous accomplishment - but is only the bottom line here.
One organization that has greatly accelerated the need for this potential is the 1400 member Pittsburgh Technology Council which is helping the 'emerald isle' which hosted the World's G20 Summit to pay for the infrastructure changes which make this 'green revolution' so timely.....yet expensive. Recreating the vital industrial base of the Ohio Valley region is no mean feat but one can tune into the Ptc Tech Vibe radio program on KQV Am 1410 and learn about what is going on.
If their is to be an economic recovery worth talking about then these efforts and energies need to become highly focused. To help accomplish this the Pittsburgh Technology Council has founded -an Entrepreneur Resource Center designed to achieve success through collaboration, programming and exposure - coordinated with sales channels and marketing initiatives and funding available through the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
Green Internet Technologies are providing the policies and practices required for this; as far as these new technologies are concerned - today; the recycling of electronic devices is a reality in most major appliance 'super stores'. But let us not forget - all things are not equal; most people do not subscribe to these ideas directly - community relations must be improved if the potential of this great transformation is to be realized; especially in the vital area of economic recovery. There is a need to develop community - social networking dedicated to idea-sharing.that can help to accomplish this. Planning resources like internationalization strategies and business opportunities are needed to keep regional manufacturers competitive in the global market. And of course we need to advocate important issues to government and thereby facilitate legislative action.
* green technology - leverage strategic plans to position the region as an energy hub
* G20 conference - need for enlightened resource mgmt
* funding sources - investor awareness - intensely competitive business environment
* software to produce - http://www.eleganteggshell.net/ OEM software discounts
Engineering concepts utilize the quantum field and nanotechnology - it is now integral to all computers and their discrete audio/visual networking capabilities.
for collaboration
* strategic planning research and development
* social networking resources and technology
* building community - personal introductions and roundtables
* Energy strategy for the green building industry
How ideas shape visualization depends upon the ethics of using these technologies, what, where, how, and who created and are promoting their introduction into the marketplace. This is essential when considering the discreteness of nanoconvergence - nanomaterials, bioengineering, information systems and cognitive science (psychology). The critical paradigms of sustainability; holistic integrity; and energy efficiency underwrite the importance of realization - the realization of a proverbial bottom line which can reverse the present downward spiral of economic stagnation and long term debt. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones is one adage that comes to mind. This 'quantum leap' must be synchronized within society with open source education - those who will perform the work must understand the basic principles which they are using in their production. It is an important point to remember when considering nanoconvergent technology in the workplace - look before you leap.
Has the storm caused us to pause for a moment of suspense - perhaps some insight from my own recent audio/visual experience can help. This morning I watched the 1983 release - Koyaanisqati (Life out of Balance - from the Hopi language) by Francis Ford Coppola after attending a heart warming movie - The Last Station about Tolstoyan society the night before. Changes as vast as the apocalyptic vision of Koyaanisqati become expeidiant for survival or as sublime as the messianic one of The Last Train depict a serious contrast. What can keep us together in the immense journey of life and anchor our souls will determine the future. The light fantastic does not have to be a vision of doom - this much generation green and its millennials has already proven.........even in the face of our world's biblical proportions.
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As a fellow Ableton user, I can tell you that Ableton is THE best live/not-live production platform. It is incredibly versatile. It includes AU and VST input, and has VERY intuitive and useful tools included. A great way to learn Ableton is through online courses:
http://www.berkleemusic.com/welcome/ableton
https://www.dubspot.com/pages/ableton.jsp
http://www.pointblankonline.net/
http://www.sonicacademy.com/
Or Youtube pages:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SonicAcademy
http://www.youtube.com/user/PrimeLoops - Prime Loops is a good source of loops that can be purchased for quality productions
Or pick up a magazine -
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/
http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/focus (has a great recurring issue just on Ableton)
Or websites:
http://sonictransfer.com/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/
Many more blogs
But as an Ableton user, I find that the best way is just to practice. Use what you have - for your case I would recommend buying a midi keyboard, midi mixer, a sound card, and a microhone.
http://www.berkleemusic.com/welcome/ableton
https://www.dubspot.com/pages/ableton.jsp
http://www.pointblankonline.net/
http://www.sonicacademy.com/
Or Youtube pages:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SonicAcademy
http://www.youtube.com/user/PrimeLoops - Prime Loops is a good source of loops that can be purchased for quality productions
Or pick up a magazine -
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/
http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/focus (has a great recurring issue just on Ableton)
Or websites:
http://sonictransfer.com/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/
Many more blogs
But as an Ableton user, I find that the best way is just to practice. Use what you have - for your case I would recommend buying a midi keyboard, midi mixer, a sound card, and a microhone.
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I found a great site for this. It is called "Audio Courses". http://www.audiocourses.com/.
SAE offers degree's for beginners,Intermediate, Advanced, Experts and Masters all online. Online classes, conversation, AC Radio, AC blog as well as SAE forum. Learn games, Animation, Film, Media and Audio.
About their courses, News from SAE institute London campus, Distant Learning, Live workshop access with online audio school. Promotions, Audio Advertising for a low fee of $0.01 per Impression at Audiocoueses.com
This site is filled with so much more. Iam sure they have what you are seeking here. Just check out the site and see.
I hope this helped Good Luck !!
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SAE offers degree's for beginners,Intermediate, Advanced, Experts and Masters all online. Online classes, conversation, AC Radio, AC blog as well as SAE forum. Learn games, Animation, Film, Media and Audio.
About their courses, News from SAE institute London campus, Distant Learning, Live workshop access with online audio school. Promotions, Audio Advertising for a low fee of $0.01 per Impression at Audiocoueses.com
This site is filled with so much more. Iam sure they have what you are seeking here. Just check out the site and see.
I hope this helped Good Luck !!
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Check out Berklee Music. It is a completely online branch of the Berklee College of Music. You can learn everything from home, making you not location dependent. Also great because you can choose anything from a single class for basics to a 12 course certificate program.
http://blog.cakewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Berklee-Online-Logo1.jpg
"Master the creative tools and techniques required to compose, record, remix, improvise, produce and edit your musical ideas using Ableton Live." http://www.ableton.com/berkleemusic
Berkleemusic.com offers a varied selecion of Alberton Live Courses.
Including,
*Producing Music with Alberton Live(an intro class)
*Advanced Music Production with Aberton Live
*3 Classes- Specialist Certificate
*5-6 Classes- Professional Certificate
*12 Classes- Master Certificate
Here is a link to try out a class for free and see how you like it. FREE TRIAL COURSE
"Master the creative tools and techniques required to compose, record, remix, improvise, produce and edit your musical ideas using Ableton Live." http://www.ableton.com/berkleemusic
Berkleemusic.com offers a varied selecion of Alberton Live Courses.
Including,
*Producing Music with Alberton Live(an intro class)
*Advanced Music Production with Aberton Live
*3 Classes- Specialist Certificate
*5-6 Classes- Professional Certificate
*12 Classes- Master Certificate
Here is a link to try out a class for free and see how you like it. FREE TRIAL COURSE
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I looked into just such a thing with my buddy and I who were going to start a podcast series. As far as a web resource, I would look into the Hitsquad Musician Network and look into the freeware that they have available. They also have a few links to nice radio-style microphones for sale online if you were in need of equipment. Here is the link that I would find the most helpful. I hope it meets your needs.
-Josh
-Josh
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