Newbie needs to borrow a trained ear

[danhughes]

Hey guys, I'm starting a couple of podcasts soon, one on softball and one on treasure hunting.

I just finished laying down the raw vocal track for the initial softball show. Please give it a listen and let me know how it sounds to you - quality of recording, how you're listening (speakers, headphones, laptop speaker). I need other ears besides my own to get this thing just right.

Am I going too fast? Too slow?

Are the highs and lows set properly?

Here's how to hear it:

Go to my home page (http://danhughes.net) and click on the tiny dot at the bottom center, just under the clock/thermometer.

Thanks for your opinion!

 

[wheelema]

Hey guys, I'm starting a couple of podcasts soon, one on softball and one on treasure hunting.

I just finished laying down the raw vocal track for the initial softball show. Please give it a listen and let me know how it sounds to you - quality of recording, how you're listening (speakers, headphones, laptop speaker). I need other ears besides my own to get this thing just right.

Am I going too fast? Too slow?

Are the highs and lows set properly?

Listening on (very) mediocre laptop speakers.

Sounds fine. Seriously. You surely know far more than I, but I would say that you need to speak as you would to your class, that attempting anything else would open you to greater error.

For additional feedback, or if you want multiple voices on your podcast, check out www.radiodaddy.com. I do free voice over work off of radiodaddy so if you want to intersperse your dialog with another voice send me a note and I'd be happy to help, as would any number of people...male and female... on that site.

 

[cellardweller]

I don't know how well it is trained, but I have not witnessed it piddling on the carpet....

 

[danhughes]

Thanks for the comeback. I'm reading everywhere that you need a special high-quality sound card to do this right, but I'm just plugged into the cheapo sound card of my cheapo laptop, and I think the sound quality is top notch. I can't see how a more expensive card would improve it at all.

I'm using an EV Cardinal microphone into a Behringer 1002 into my laptop's mic-in jack.

This is interesting - when I plugged the jack into the computer, the computer asked me if I was inputting a line-level or mic-level signal. Pretty cool!

As for extra voices, hopefully the content will be interesting enough to carry the program. Though I plan on playing recorded calls, too, so that will add variety to the sound.

This first program is just the intro; the actual shows will be less formal.

As an aside, I'm new here and I'm surprised at how little response I've received to this question. Thanks for taking the time to listen.