Tag: Minidisc
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Another Green World
Fascinating documentary on Brian Eno by BBC’s Arena (he provided the music for their famous floating bottle logo) about how he works and his life. I especially love the whole thing about coming from family of postmen ‘we’re in communications!’ and him going fossil hunting as a kid. But the thing it seems people remember…
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The Guerrilla Guide To Podcasting Part Four
The fourth part in a series on making your own podcast that won’t break the bank, concentrating on DIY and low-cost podcasting. Read part one, part two and part three first. Plug in babies If your mic is USB – and I really recommend that for first timers – you can skip to the next…
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The Guerrilla Guide To Podcasting Part Two
The second part in a series on making your own podcast that won’t break the bank, concentrating on DIY and low-cost podcasting . Read part one here. Gear fetish I’m a big believer in making expensive mistakes on cheap gear, rather than the other way around. I have done it, and still wince at the…
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Everything must go
I’m having a massive sale of my unused gear over at eBay including a lot of my podcasting gear – Marvin is being sold, my Korg PXR4 mobile podcasting rig that I used to podcast from a field in Canada, a bathroom in Spain and rainy Scotland! my Mackie mixer, my Audio Technica ATR2020 condenser…
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Reality Engine TX 4: Found Unsound (Remnants)
TX 4: Found Unsound (Remnants) by Reality Engine The last Reality Engine TX release, and this is a collection of experimental ‘found sound’ pieces, ones that didn’t fit on any of the other TX series. Introducing the album and interspersed across it is my old modul-8 radio (mod.radio) jingles I did for the rudimentary Real…
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RIP Minidisc
Sony finally calls it a day on Minidisc. Although pretty much all of the Radio Clash podcasts from 2006-2010 were recorded on Hi-MD minidisc (a RH910) and had several earlier MD recorders (a blue MZ-R91 a Sharp in the late 90s), I’m not surprised. The original nor relaunched formats never took off in the mass…