This time we continue to look at compression. Having looked at the basics, news showreel and podcast we now look at making radio imaging and sweepers and compression. Compression here depends on the type of radio you’re producing for. CHR radio you can afford to be quite hard with compression, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2020
This week as the world copes with lockdown we spoke about Birthday begging, alternate engagements, what do you wish you’d done before the lockdown started, no make up selfies revisited, pressure on guys and more! Don’t forget to subscribe! Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and Google [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=24420850″ width=”100%” height=”200px” […]
In this episode we look at using compression in podcast production. The golden rule for Podcast is to use as little compression as possible to create an easy listen without creating a pulsing compressed sound. With Podcast you have to consider where your audience is likely to be listening. As […]
Following the introduction to compression I’m going to take a few episodes to look at the different uses of compression during production. In today’s tutorial we’ll be producing a news showreel and that demands light compression so the audio still retains most of its dynamic range. Still to come on […]
We all get up and work to make money but during these worrying times of the current health pandemic I have decided to make the following voiceover freely available. The free voiceover just outlines where to get advice on keeping yourself safe and healthy and what to do if you […]
In my earlier post about working from home in the Coronavirus pandemic I totally forgot to actually outline the equipment you’ll need! You’ll need an interface to connect your microphone to the computer and convert the analogue signal from your microphone to a digital signal. I’d recommend the Focusrite Scarlet […]
With many people being encouraged to work from home I want to take a look at setting yourself up for working from home. The most important thing right now is to keep yourself safe and give yourself the best chance of remaining healthy. In an ideal world for working from […]
This week in the Best Bits of Mark Denholm’s Drivetime In episode 79 we discussed panic buying, a would you / would you not gamble and what do you miss from your childhood plus a little bit more too! Don’t forget to subscribe! Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and Google [spreaker […]
Welcome back to the Audio Journey and we’re looking at compression now. Compression is the reduction of the dynamic range in audio. Dynamic range is the difference between the highest points and lowest points of audio. By adding compression to audio you make it a more consistent volume all through […]
This time we look at something I’ve had a few questions about and that’s the speech volume leveller. It’s essentially a compressor that levels speech up to a target level. There’s three basic controls to set, target level, levelling amount and target dynamic range and these three settings affect the […]