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Is this a good or bad practice?

Y

yragha

I'm not currently in the business & haven't been for 12yrs and even then was only on air for a year. I have a question...

I currently run a podcasting station and in order to get what I want to say in the time before the actual lyrics begin I started to write down & time what i want to say, then read off of that.

Good or bad practice?

Back in the day I would just wing it but of course being a newbie sometimes would run over or flub a line.

Please give me some feedback, thx.
 
If you use a playout program like Station Playlist for live assist, you can set the times of the instrumental lead up on songs and when a song is launched, a countdown clock will guide you to when the leadup ramp ends...check out StationPlaylist.com
 
I'd say write the key data out to make sure that information gets announced, but then ad lib when rolling.
Even the best DJs walked on vocals.
 
No one answer fits all people.

Some people can take a written script, or just written "loose notes" and make it so personal, so smooth.

Some people take anything written and suddenly they sound like a robot, a voice synthesizer.

Find a mixture of "winging it" plus written things.... and "find your nest".
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy is right... there's not not one correct way to do it. It has to be YOU though... so however you do it... make it your own.
 
Okay, I'll bite. "Is this a good or bad practice?"
Spitting on the sidewalk is a bad practice. Not brushing your teeth daily is a bad practice.
Oh, you're talking about talking over intros. Or something.
Your "lead" or "headline" could have defined the subject a bit better. That was a bad practice. Love.
Thanks.
 
Henry McClurg said:
Okay, I'll bite. "Is this a good or bad practice?"
Spitting on the sidewalk is a bad practice. Not brushing your teeth daily is a bad practice.
Oh, you're talking about talking over intros. Or something.
Your "lead" or "headline" could have defined the subject a bit better. That was a bad practice. Love.
Thanks.
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Wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
 
yragha said:
I'm not currently in the business & haven't been for 12yrs and even then was only on air for a year. I have a question...

I currently run a podcasting station and in order to get what I want to say in the time before the actual lyrics begin I started to write down & time what i want to say, then read off of that.

Good or bad practice?

Back in the day I would just wing it but of course being a newbie sometimes would run over or flub a line.

Please give me some feedback, thx.
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Scripting out your show is a good idea even after you are comfortable to help you organize your thoughts and come up with a few other ideas and angles.
The KEY is not sounding like you're reading when you deliver your lines over the intro. You want to sound spontaneous. Show prep comes in many different forms.
 
If I could take a tiny detour off the thread....does anyone know of an audio program that will remove the dead air when building playlists? Someone told the standard windows program could do that, but I can't figure it out. Makes me miss the days of turntables in a production room and you could fade those babies in and out and up and down....and zowie, it was groovy.
 
20ozwilliehoppe said:
....does anyone know of an audio program that will remove the dead air when building playlists? Someone told the standard windows program could do that, but I can't figure it out.
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Not sure what you are talking about when you say "the standard windows program".....

Audacity is an audio editing program that you can download that is available for free. There is a bit of a learning curve but with a good audio editing program (there are others.... some for free, some at low price... some a considerable expense...) you might decide that turntables are quite a groovy as you remember them. Yes, they are a nice blood-rush now and then... a romantic trip down memory lane...

How are you "digitizing audio" now? Or do you get all your music for your playlists already converted to digital? Do you have the equipment and software now to convert a record, an LP to a digital file? Just trying to get you to share with us what your experience and knowledge is in working with analog vs digital sound and music.

Are you making your own digital tracks that end up with the dead air in them? Do the files already have dead air when you get them. 40 years ago we had a saying that might be useful here: "Tell us where your head is at."
 
20ozwilliehoppe said:
If I could take a tiny detour off the thread....does anyone know of an audio program that will remove the dead air when building playlists? Someone told the standard windows program could do that, but I can't figure it out. Makes me miss the days of turntables in a production room and you could fade those babies in and out and up and down....and zowie, it was groovy.
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Depends on what your asking..If you are looking for a smooth cross fader for Winamp, there is a plugin (FREE) that lets Winamp sound as good as any automation system. "SqrSoft Advanced Crossfading Output - A fast & smart crossfading output plugin, perfect for radios, parties or what ever!"
It is a look ahead level based crossfader that eliminates dead air between cuts..

Link:
http://www.winamp.com/plugin/sqrsoft-advanced-crossfading-output/32368

When you get it adjusted it is tremendously tight. The "tweak" time takes a bit of tinkering but the results are great... With this output plugin and "Sound Solution - A multiband processor" Link: http://www.winamp.com/plugin/sound-solution/120741 also free you get a top notch Shoutcast streaming platform for a total cost of FREE...
 
YES! thank you Mr. Walker, that sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. And the gentleman who ask about what I might have to offer, I'm afraid nothing. If I can't take the song off YouTube, I don't have it.
 
20ozwilliehoppe said:
YES! thank you Mr. Walker, that sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. And the gentleman who ask about what I might have to offer, I'm afraid nothing. If I can't take the song off YouTube, I don't have it.
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Call me Jay, and glad to help!!!
If your wanting a clean tight segue with processed audio those plug-ins do the trick with something as basic as winamp. Now you need a scheduler to build up a days worth of programming. There's a great FREE one called "Amazing Clockwheel" the ONLY downside, the program will not run on Windows 7 and above so you have to run it on a XP machine and you have to run it on the same machine where the m3u playlist files are located. But what do you want for free? ;D ;D ;D
 
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