A recent offer that I made to do voice-overs for radio spots has put me in the situation to record two 1/2 hour radio shows; mostly of spoken news items.
My PC is probably one of the lesser machines that sees regular T use: Athlon 1.2, 256 MB RAM, Win98SE. I've got 6 GB available on my audio hard drive. (I know I need a new PC - that's coming soon hopefully)
I've read several threads in the past here about long files causing problems in T.
The radio station needs the program material on Minidisc.
I'm thinking that I should just record 5 minute snippets of material; mix them in T, then record direct to a minidisc recorder, not ever exporting the project to a 1/2 hour .wav.
What do you folks think? Does this seem the best way to go?
-Scott
Recording audio for a 1/2 hour radio show - seeking advice
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- KVRAF
- 4908 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
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- KVRAF
- 1600 posts since 1 Apr, 2003 from Seattle, WA
With a half hour show, you will never run into the windows long file limit unless you are recording at 192k which you probably won't be if its going to MD.
Some of the new MD player/recorders let you upload a file to the MD via USB. That may be easier then doing a liver record and should probably give you better sound quality because you won't have two extra conversion stages.
Ben
Some of the new MD player/recorders let you upload a file to the MD via USB. That may be easier then doing a liver record and should probably give you better sound quality because you won't have two extra conversion stages.
Ben
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- KVRAF
- 5851 posts since 9 Jul, 2002 from Helsinki
I think the problems mentioned were with considerably longer recordings (4 hours, multichannel?), but if you feel you get warm enough in 5 min snips, I see no problem in your idea, especially as it's more comfortable to work with shorter clips in the arrangements- I always cut long ones to pieces anyway.
If you import the files to a new project and combine them in that, there seems to be no risk involved either, and it might me more comfortable to store one show in one file?
I've had no problems with 20+ min speeches (Athlon 1.47, 512MB, W2K and only approx 3 Gb free space at that time on disc). The actual required space depends on the recording quality, I think 16bit/44.1KHz is good enough for spoken word for radio, and at that rate the file is not huge. Maybe something like 100Mb? There is a way to count the file size, but me is no mathematigician.
Dunno if you've done stuff for radio before, but I've learned to make them louder than I originally thought was appropriate. My first commercials were very, very quiet.
If you import the files to a new project and combine them in that, there seems to be no risk involved either, and it might me more comfortable to store one show in one file?
I've had no problems with 20+ min speeches (Athlon 1.47, 512MB, W2K and only approx 3 Gb free space at that time on disc). The actual required space depends on the recording quality, I think 16bit/44.1KHz is good enough for spoken word for radio, and at that rate the file is not huge. Maybe something like 100Mb? There is a way to count the file size, but me is no mathematigician.
Dunno if you've done stuff for radio before, but I've learned to make them louder than I originally thought was appropriate. My first commercials were very, very quiet.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4908 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
Thanks for the tips. I've never done radio. This actually will be for a radio station in Haiti, of all places. The guy I'm doing the program for is a native Haitian as well as a pastor. The local station down in Haiti has asked him to do these 2 1/2 hour shows. I'm taking it on as a learning experience and he understands that.
-Scott
-Scott