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RODE Podcaster

April 6, 2009 in post audio gear by guy

Podcaster Broadcast quality USB Microphone. Ever need to do high quality voice over? Do you need smooth broadcast quality sound? Now you can record directly via USB. Many editing applications allow you to record direct to the timeline. The problem has been, how do you get pristine audio into the computer. You used to need [...]

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Tascam DR-680 8 Channel Recorder

January 28, 2009 in broadcast products, location sound gear, post audio gear by grace

TASCAM’s DR-680 brings multi-channel portable recording within reach of any musician for polished live, location and surround recordings. Up to eight tracks can be recorded to solid-state SD card media at 96kHz/24-bit Broadcast WAV quality. Six mic inputs provide phantom power and 60dB of gain for great-sounding recordings with your condenser microphones. Record the six [...]

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Rode M3 Multi Powered Condenser Microphone

January 23, 2007 in location sound gear, post audio gear by guy

The M3 is an extremely versatile microphone that is at home in the studio, on location, or wherever a low-noise wide-response cardioid condenser microphone is demanded. An end address condenser microphone, the M3 features a heavy-duty metal body, category leading low self-noise, three stage PAD (O, -10db, -20db), a battery status LED and a High [...]

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Core Duo versus Core 2 Duo speed tests

November 5, 2006 in digital video news, editing, editing products, post audio gear by Josh

Bare Feats is at it again, with speed tests of the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros:

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DV Gear Talk

May 31, 2006 in broadcast products, camera products, dvd products, editing products, film products, lighting gear, location sound gear, planning products, post audio gear, visual fx products, web products by guy

DV Gear Talk was one of the world’s first video podcasts, hosted by Guy Cochran and DVeStore, the coolest place on the web to check out videos of awesome video production and post-production gear. This podcast has been ranked as high as #12 of all podcasts worldwide! Subscribe by clicking here View individual episodes below. [...]

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Sonicfire Pro 5

April 4, 2006 in post audio gear by guy

The latest version of Smartsound’s music creation software, Sonicfire Pro 5, is available for order now and includes “Mood Mapping” as well as a new multitrack mixing interface. Mood Mapping lets you change the mix and feel of the music on-the-fly, according to the different scenes and moods within your edit. Rather than having one [...]

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How can I reduce hum or hiss in my audio?

January 7, 2006 in post audio, post audio gear by Josh

Sometimes a location sound track has hiss (white noise) or a 60 Hz hum that is audible. If the sound is constant, there are some software packages and plugins that can reduce the problem somewhat without affecting the audio quality terribly. Some of them are: Ray Gun Sound Soap Soundtrack Pro Ionizer If the background [...]

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Digital Speakers

January 3, 2006 in post audio gear by guy

Edirol MA-15DBK Studio Monitors Compact Desktop Monitors with Surprising Power! Recording on your computer at home? Here’s a compact monitor solution with more power than most! Edirol’s MA-15D Stereo Reference Monitors are ideal for computer-based recording artists seeking a high-quality, powerful set of monitor speakers to use in a relatively confined space. The MA-15D also [...]

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Musicbed DV 1.0.3

July 21, 2005 in digital video news, post audio gear by guy

An intuitive and easy to use production music tool. You can browse and shape professionally composed music beds to suit your video, DVD, or web project quickly and easily. download here (103 MB disk image)