Radio Station Setup

[stevieknight]

Hello Everybody,

I'm very new to this and really need some advice.

I want to setup a MOCK radio studio in my Office at home.

I basically want to record audio and make Radio Demo's and put together proper radio shows. On a budget of course.

I run Radio automation software on my pc and want to be able to talk in between songs etc. I,m confused as to what equipemt I need to do this?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best Wishes

Steve in the UK

 

[suprstar]

Hello Everybody,

I'm very new to this and really need some advice.

I want to setup a MOCK radio studio in my Office at home.

I basically want to record audio and make Radio Demo's and put together proper radio shows. On a budget of course.

I run Radio automation software on my pc and want to be able to talk in between songs etc. I,m confused as to what equipemt I need to do this?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best Wishes

Steve in the UK

Sounds like you'd need a mic, a small mixer, a couple sources (cd players, ipod, whatever) something to monitor with (speakers or headphones), and something to record it on. The recorder could be a PC, analog tape, HD recorder, whatever.

Plug the sources into the mixer, start the recorder, and go!

 

[JustAboutReal]

Podcast?

Will you be broadcasting it as a podcast? give yourself a plug... I want to know

 

[benjicpalmer]

this may help

hey, this might help you out as far as equipment. go to Arrakis Systems website. they have pretty much everything you need.

what kind of automation software do you use? you might find the Arc 10 console to work best from what you're describing. if you have more questions you can call them up, I've found they have been really helpful for the stuff that I did.

 

[wheelema]

Hello Everybody,

I'm very new to this and really need some advice.

I want to setup a MOCK radio studio in my Office at home.

I basically want to record audio and make Radio Demo's and put together proper radio shows. On a budget of course.

I run Radio automation software on my pc and want to be able to talk in between songs etc. I,m confused as to what equipemt I need to do this?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best Wishes

Steve in the UK

Hey Steve,

Register on www.radiodaddy.com to so as to be able to read the forums. There is an Engineer Shack forum on this site which may be of great help to you. In any event, given that you already have a PC... and presumably speakers... you would need:
A mic. Pretty much any half-way decent microphone will do. If you want to splurge on a VO mic the standards that are usually recommended are the EV RE-20 and the Shure SM-7B. The budget choice is the SM-7B.

A soundcard/preamp. This topic can get a little confusing. 'Soundcards' are any device that performs A/D/A conversion. For budget reasons I recommend that your soundcard incorporate a preamp, though you can most certainly have them as separate devices. I've used the Yamaha I88X (discontinued), Alesis IO/2 (discontinued), and the M-Audio 1010LT (still available). For a basic overview of the insanity please check out Tweakheadz.

And... last but not least... you may need some software. I use Sony SoundForge 8.

I would seriously pound Tweakheadz and RadioDaddy until your head is ready to explode, then come back with more questions.

 

[Radman*123]

Bedroom Radio

Hi There

If you are still stuck let me know. I have been doing Community radio since 94. Have you thought of broadcasting online?

Simon

 

[wheelema]

Hi There

If you are still stuck let me know. I have been doing Community radio since 94. Have you thought of broadcasting online?

Simon

How does that work? Or for that matter community radio. I have been told I have a good VO voice, but no idea how to make a dime with it.

 

[mjbphotos]

There is also blogtalkradio.com, although it seems to only broadcast music in mono (that may be the one 'station' I listen to, though).

 

[avieth]

How does that work? Or for that matter community radio. I have been told I have a good VO voice, but no idea how to make a dime with it.

Broadcasting online is pretty cool. Of course it can never beat FM but that's not an option for a hobbyist. I've heard of ShoutCast, but I'd recommend IceCast because it's free and open-source. You'll just have to find a server to host your stream, and then install the client that will stream your stereo mix to the server and out to the people.

 

[Radman*123]

community & on line radio

This site is a mine of information.

commedia.org.uk

everything you need to know is on here.

Also try

communityradiotoolkit.net

Hope these help.