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How does one record your own airshift?
- Thread starter yragha
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Feed the output of a radio into the soundcard of your computer and record to hard drive.
Go to Goodwill and find a working cassette recording and do it the old fashioned way.
Buy one of the little MP3 recorders that are the size of the little mp3 players we use when we go for a walk. some of them have built in receivers. (most don't) Feed audio into the LINE INPUT of the little 'dictation machine' recorders. I have one that will record WAV files with the same technical quality as the CD standards, or will record mp3 at 192 kbps. That ain't shabby. And it's not just phony specs. I've recorded Town Hall meetings and lectures... and the quality is tops.
It was $100 when I purchased it but I see it is now selling in the $75 to $80 range. (Shipping could put it back up the $100 I paid.)
There are a number of them in the market place. I bought this one not because research proved it to be THE BEST BUY, but because it was available in a local store the day I wanted one. Sony ICD-UX533BLK
You will find them starting in the $30 and $40 range but with features a bit more limited. (I have 12 GB of memory. It will record at high-quality for HOURS!)
Zoom and other manufacturers have more robust comparable product in the $200 to $400 range. So, take your pick. $24.95 if your lucky. $399 if you are in a mood for top performance.
Go to Goodwill and find a working cassette recording and do it the old fashioned way.
Buy one of the little MP3 recorders that are the size of the little mp3 players we use when we go for a walk. some of them have built in receivers. (most don't) Feed audio into the LINE INPUT of the little 'dictation machine' recorders. I have one that will record WAV files with the same technical quality as the CD standards, or will record mp3 at 192 kbps. That ain't shabby. And it's not just phony specs. I've recorded Town Hall meetings and lectures... and the quality is tops.
It was $100 when I purchased it but I see it is now selling in the $75 to $80 range. (Shipping could put it back up the $100 I paid.)
There are a number of them in the market place. I bought this one not because research proved it to be THE BEST BUY, but because it was available in a local store the day I wanted one. Sony ICD-UX533BLK
You will find them starting in the $30 and $40 range but with features a bit more limited. (I have 12 GB of memory. It will record at high-quality for HOURS!)
Zoom and other manufacturers have more robust comparable product in the $200 to $400 range. So, take your pick. $24.95 if your lucky. $399 if you are in a mood for top performance.
yragha said:
Assuming you're actually doing a live shift, an audio recording program like Adobe Audition or even a freebie like Audacity on the studio computer is all you need. When you're finished, choose whether to save as a .wav or mp3, toss it onto a portable hard drive and you're done.
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FredLeonard
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I've used Applian Technologies' Replay AV - assuming your station has an audio stream.
You can set it to record from your home computer. Set the URL, time and sound quality you want.
You can set it to record from your home computer. Set the URL, time and sound quality you want.
Would this work?
WD - My Passport 1TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Portable Hard Drive
I may be getting a gig at a small market station soon and want to make sure I have something that even a basic station would be compatible with to record my shifts yet not spend an arm & a leg.
Please let me know, thx.
WD - My Passport 1TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Portable Hard Drive
I may be getting a gig at a small market station soon and want to make sure I have something that even a basic station would be compatible with to record my shifts yet not spend an arm & a leg.
Please let me know, thx.
SIMPLE.....!! I use OLYMPUS DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER DM-420 with a 16 Gig MICRO SD [the SD card is portable] although with 2 Gigs of onboard memory you may hardly need it. I begin by running a simple patch cord from the headphone jack of my EMERSON COMPACT DISC PLAYER AM/FM Radio: Model #PD5098 to the external "Mic" input on my Digital Recorder and then I go to my (1) recorder's select mode and (2) select the WMA Mode [not mp3] and (3) put it in HQ, (4) next I turn off the low cut filter, (5) turn off the Zoom Mic setting, and (6) set the Mic sensitivity to the "middle" position of a three mode setting and (7) exit the program. Seeee.... just like I said-simple. I wish other things here in Eastern North Carolina where just that simple for an authentic Soul Music Jock such as myself. My digital recorder records in stereo up to 320kps and has an extremely sensitive onboard stereo mic as JUST one of it's features. It cost me about $75.00 about 2 yrs ago. It a great device and very sophisticate. There are later models on the market.
Moving on... in following that procedure, to begin recording my program I set the frequency on this radio to 1340AM, WOOW Radio, Greenville, NC, set volume levels between the radio and the digital recorder for the best possible quality (mark your volume settings for the next time) and prepare to record my show: 'SATURDAY MORNING IN SOULSVILLE' where with my new "format" AMERICAN SOUL 'soul music vehicle' and with soulfully pent up passions I will relentlessy unleash five decades plus of the world's greatest recorded Soul Music upon the ears of my hapless listeners... your fault, not mine. The best part of all is that this digital recording technology can fit the palm of your hand. I stopped doing all of that other "stuff" a long time ago. A show like mine that only gets the opportunity to be air weekly like needs to be "aircheck" and I need to focus more on content. This way I can set it up and forget about it until the show is over and I leave the "Zone." My on-air show can run up to six hours. By the way, if you really want to hear how an authentic "Soul Jock" sounds, tune into my show the first chance you get.
Finally upon completing my airshift, I then connect my digital recorder to my laptop and then convert my show into a MP3 format using ADOBE AUDITION wave editing software and save it on the MICRO SD card. I then remove the MICRO SD card from my digital recorder a slide it into my SAMSUNG (삼성, aka Three Star) SCH390 ('m a Korean Language student also) Cellular phone to critique my show or share it with my friends or potential advertisers or listeners [by the way if you know of any potential advertisers who may want to use Soul Music as an advertising vehicle here in Eastern North Carollina have them contact me], it's a Billion Dollar a year market east of I-95. Source: UNC-Raleigh.
At this point in time you are problely asking yourselves DUH....! why doesn't he just record his show on his laptop? The answer to that is just as simple, I dedicated my laptop to do my show with. I use OTS Software for live assist on-air programming and automation and have been for several years. It's good stuff. My laptop has good processing capabilities but I prefer not to overburden it.
That how I do it, That's how I aircheck my show. I know my good friend Don Sams[sfx_THUD!] may accuse me of being a bit too "wordy," (have him contact me) but that's how I do it.
Softjamms
Guy aka
www.americansoul.us
Jersey Redd - Dee Jay
The Almighty Soulman
The Funk Symphony Disco
Former Affl: KYOK, KAUM & KCOH
Moving on... in following that procedure, to begin recording my program I set the frequency on this radio to 1340AM, WOOW Radio, Greenville, NC, set volume levels between the radio and the digital recorder for the best possible quality (mark your volume settings for the next time) and prepare to record my show: 'SATURDAY MORNING IN SOULSVILLE' where with my new "format" AMERICAN SOUL 'soul music vehicle' and with soulfully pent up passions I will relentlessy unleash five decades plus of the world's greatest recorded Soul Music upon the ears of my hapless listeners... your fault, not mine. The best part of all is that this digital recording technology can fit the palm of your hand. I stopped doing all of that other "stuff" a long time ago. A show like mine that only gets the opportunity to be air weekly like needs to be "aircheck" and I need to focus more on content. This way I can set it up and forget about it until the show is over and I leave the "Zone." My on-air show can run up to six hours. By the way, if you really want to hear how an authentic "Soul Jock" sounds, tune into my show the first chance you get.
Finally upon completing my airshift, I then connect my digital recorder to my laptop and then convert my show into a MP3 format using ADOBE AUDITION wave editing software and save it on the MICRO SD card. I then remove the MICRO SD card from my digital recorder a slide it into my SAMSUNG (삼성, aka Three Star) SCH390 ('m a Korean Language student also) Cellular phone to critique my show or share it with my friends or potential advertisers or listeners [by the way if you know of any potential advertisers who may want to use Soul Music as an advertising vehicle here in Eastern North Carollina have them contact me], it's a Billion Dollar a year market east of I-95. Source: UNC-Raleigh.
At this point in time you are problely asking yourselves DUH....! why doesn't he just record his show on his laptop? The answer to that is just as simple, I dedicated my laptop to do my show with. I use OTS Software for live assist on-air programming and automation and have been for several years. It's good stuff. My laptop has good processing capabilities but I prefer not to overburden it.
That how I do it, That's how I aircheck my show. I know my good friend Don Sams[sfx_THUD!] may accuse me of being a bit too "wordy," (have him contact me) but that's how I do it.
Softjamms
Guy aka
www.americansoul.us
Jersey Redd - Dee Jay
The Almighty Soulman
The Funk Symphony Disco
Former Affl: KYOK, KAUM & KCOH
yragha said:
Still curious if this might work?
What about this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004M8SSZK/ref=mw_dp_mpd?pd=1&qid=1368896581&sr=8-1
yragha said:
YES! I was the first to respond to your Original Post. I have a Sony ICD-UX523. Mine is a model with an added feature or two that the ICD-PX312 does not have.
Now, you really can't walk into the studio, take the little Sony out of your backpack, set it on the desk and say: "O.K., Dude! Do your thing." You will need to come up with a cable to connect some output of the studio (maybe a jack normally used for a headset) to the input of your Sony recorder.
It may be that a simple cable from The Shack will do the trick. Then again, you may have to cobble two cables together or even "manufacture" some kind of little interface pad. But the Sony is totally capable of doing what you want, and if the internal memory that comes with it is not large enough to capture you entire program, an inexpensive memory card will create a lot of warehouse space for audio.
Sometimes station technicians/engineers are very picky, even prohibitive of connecting outside equpment. Sometimes techs/engineers are more than happy to work with you and may be willing to cobble together a patch cable for you. Best of all worlds: They already have one dangling from the mixer board because other people are already doing the same thing you want to do.
The documentation available from Sony is a bit weak in this area as I remember. The same jack can be used to plug in an external mic or plug in an external "line level" input. You will click your way through the menu choices on the recorder to tell it what to expect from the plug you just inserted into the jack. My memory is that it will create a mono/single-track file if it thinks the signal is from an external mic... it will create a two-track(stero) file... even if one track is silent... if you tell the menu you are feeding from and external line in.
It has been a year since I used mine the way you are wanting to, so some portion of what I just typed may be bent or in error... but the overall picture I painted should work for you. If you find that the station has a co-operative and helpful tech, print this out for them as a starting place.
Yes, once you have done something like this a time or two, you don't think much about it. You just do it.
But I think our Original Poster is venturing into unfamiliar territory. Not on the air since equipment changed. Not sure how much sense-of-humor the station or the station technician may have about people new-to-the-crew coming in with their own devices and connecting them.
Once you've had upset management in-your-face over issues like this, you learn to bark back just as loudly, or you learn to tip-toe and sneak around. I've done all of the above at one time or another. ;D
But I think our Original Poster is venturing into unfamiliar territory. Not on the air since equipment changed. Not sure how much sense-of-humor the station or the station technician may have about people new-to-the-crew coming in with their own devices and connecting them.
Once you've had upset management in-your-face over issues like this, you learn to bark back just as loudly, or you learn to tip-toe and sneak around. I've done all of the above at one time or another. ;D
I see. I didn't ask I just did it. I was on overnights and early Sunday mornings, so I was the only one there. I just made sure I was packed up before the next guy came in so there was no question.
My method for mobile recording now is my laptop...so long as I can get connected via usb. I use Acoustica's Spin It Again software for recording, it's quick and simple and gets the job done
My method for mobile recording now is my laptop...so long as I can get connected via usb. I use Acoustica's Spin It Again software for recording, it's quick and simple and gets the job done
Hi.... Its me again. ;D I use OTS software and my laptop to my show. Otherwise I would use my laptop in with Adobe Audition to do my show. Match those on my stereo OLYMPUS Digital Recorder works fine in the mp3 mode at 128kbs with the internal mic set on "low" works well with a patch from the radio earpiece connected to the digital mic imput. It so worry free while I do amazing things with my OTS software and OTS files and with my large music "Database" that reflects my 30 plus years in the radio business. At any rate I sure miss you guys in Houston. I was on my way back there but I got stranded in Eastern North Carolina. Give Don Sams a shout out for me...
Guy
Soul Jock
AMERICAN SOUL
Guy
Soul Jock
AMERICAN SOUL
Back in 1999 when I worked at Clear Channel I would grab my breaks on cassette. When I did some non-com Christian radio I grabbed the air-feed as .wav files on a utility PC using Cool Edit.
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