audio

Make Vinyl Records At Home

Make Vinyl Records At Home

The Phonocut is an analog vinyl lathe which makes vinyl records and costs $1100. The machine cuts 10 inch vinyl records with 10 to 15 minutes of stereo analog audio on each side. The lathe can also cut 7 inch records. The blank records will cost about $10 each, but...

Photoshop For Audio

Photoshop For Audio

Two years ago Adobe demonstrated a program that can edit speech just like you can edit text, but it can also add new speech. The program is called VoCo. It ingests speech, breaks it down to basic elements and then creates new words and sentences from scratch. So you...

Transferring Audio with Audacity

Transferring Audio with Audacity

If you record or mix audio, you need to know about this free program. This program is to audio what VLC is to video. It is cross platform. And it has all the power you'd want. It won't burn CDs, but does just about everything else. This open-source application is...

Turn Down Those Loud TV Commercials

Turn Down Those Loud TV Commercials

The FCC regulated the volume of commercials in 2011, but it didn't really work. Loud TV commercials still rule the tube. Now FCC is trying again. They've updated the algorithm which measures volume with the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (Calm) Act....

$200 Sony Wireless Bluetooth Microphone ECM-W1M

$200 Sony Wireless Bluetooth Microphone ECM-W1M

The Sony ECMW1M Wireless Microphone uses Bluetooth technology to make a wireless connection to your camera. It attaches thought a proprietary Sony multi-interface shoe. This is not compatible with all cameras, even Sony cameras so the first thing to do is to check...

Audio For Video Refresher

One of the principles of good audio recording is to bring the microphone close to the source. That's why audio usually sounds bad when recorded from a smart phone or an on-board camera mic. The mic is simply too far away to record good audio. A lavaliere mic attached...

Rode’s Videomic Shotgun Perfect For DSLRs

Rode’s Videomic Shotgun Perfect For DSLRs

by David Rennie Trinity Wedding Cinema Since switching to DSLR one thing I have been slow (too slow) at adding is a shotgun mic to make up for the pathetic audio that the built in mic on my beloved Canon SLR's captures. Anyone using a DSLR knows what I am talking...

A Short Course in Wedding Audio

by Doug Graham This is an expanded version of a post originally made in the Video University Wedding Video Forum. It's a very basic look at the practical requirements for audio during a wedding shoot, plus a bit about what to do with your audio during the edit. Ed...