Garageband tutorial 1: Making a jingle
Here’s a quick guide to making a simple jingle. Udemy’s Garageband Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Garageband is here And here are even more!
Soundboard
1- Launch soundboard (from finder – applications) 2- You will see a screen full of squares with numbers or letters on each on relates to the corresponding key on the keyboard. 3- Drag pre-recorded items in to a square – when broadcasting you can then just press the corresponding square on the keyboard and it…
Mixing desk, Levels and Mics
A very basic setup is shown in the diagram above, details are written out below and you can watch the videos on this site for more help setting up the desk, microphone and levels. Plug in the audio jack between the microphone (the back of the wireless transmitter box) and the mixing desk. Plug in the…
Creating Jingles in Garage band
Create jingles in garageband Open up GarageBand by clicking on the guitar icon form your dock or finding it in Applications. Click on “Loops” and press choose. Name your file and save it somewhere where you will be able to find it again in future, then click “Create” Spend some time listening…
Organising your files
How do you collect, save and name files? Some hints and tips about keeping organized here in our 6th helpline video.
Following your signal-line plan
Another in our helpline series on what to do with your signal line plan once you have drawn it.
Using Auphonic
Auphonic is a great tool for converting your audio files into lots of different file types. Andreas has produced a very comprehensive here guide for our helpline series.
Post Production
Here’s our helpline video on what to do after a show in terms of post-production.
Multilingual International Shows!
There are some great resources here about using more than one language in a broadcast. Scroll down and find the downloadable file in your own language or open the page using Chrome as your browser.
Storyboard resources
Templates for Google-docs for collaborative story-boarding Printable story-board templates
Managing Collaborative Documents
How to draw a signal-line plan
Useful Nicecast Links
Useful How To blog here Troubleshooting ideas here
Community Journalism Course
Cardiff University’s free open online course in Community Journalism starts on 14th April 2014. Follow the link below to sign up https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/community-journalism “The course is open to anyone with an interest in journalism and in connecting their communities online. No prior qualifications are required. Core essentials of journalism principles, skills and practice are covered as…
World Radio Day Preparations
Audacity Tutorial 2
Audacity is free software for Mac or PC, it doesn’t have all the functionality of Garage Band but the end result is just as good. Download it from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/. Open it up on your desktop, click the red circle to record and start talking, click the yellow square when you have finished. You can improve…
Pre-records and podcasts tutorial
This is a blog post about producing a podcast, you can use all of the tips and ideas when producing pre-recorded content for your show. LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this section you will be able to: Say what a podcast is. List the equipment you need to make a podcast. Explain how…
Music by someone you’ve heard of
All this licence-free public domain and Creative Commons music is great but sometimes you want to play something a bit more “commercial”. Fear not, here’s a list of better known bands, artists, tracks and albums which have been published with Creative Commons licences. Again, remember to check the small print! Nine Inch Nails actively encourage…
Useful links – creative commons and license free music
The Internet Archive has a huge section for community music http://archive.org/details/audio most of which is public domain or share alike by attribution. Check each file for details. They also have http://archive.org/details/netlabels which is a collection designed for streaming on internet radio or editing to make backing tracks. The public domain review has lots of useful information about finding…
Public Domain Music
There is a very good site called public domain review which explains everything you need to know about finding music which is in the public domain. “Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, The King James Bible, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics,…
Frank Nora
Lots of music here which can be used as you like. http://mcs.franknora.com/ is “55 hours of public domain music you can use any way you want, with no strings attached.”
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie dedicated his work to the public domain so you are free to use, re-use, edit and re-purpose his music as you wish. “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good…
Free Internet Radio Servers
You will need to pay for a server if you plan to run a high quality professional radio show with uninterrupted service and guaranteed bandwidth. We use internet-radio.com which offers both subscription and pay as you go packages for low fees. If you’re looking for a lower-specification free option there are some notes and…
Practice run
It’s really important that you practice setting up the equipment and broadcasting regularly. One way to do this is outlined below. Use the built in Nicecast server. You can test all of the equipment (everything setup up before using the streaming server including going online etc.) by using the built In Nicecast Server. For…
Setting up Nicecast
1- Open Nicecast software from applications (in finder) 2- Click on source 3- Select audio device 4- Click on ‘select’ button on right where you will find the options of input devices 5- Go to ‘window’ at the top of screen click ‘bring all to front’, if this doesn’t work then click on ‘show server’…
Your show…
Rauk professionalising from angela rees
Radio Jargon
Ad Lib The presence of mind by a presenter to improvise when; 1) another presenter fails to start on cue 2) the normal progress of the programme is disturbed 3) lines are forgotten anchorman /presenter / host Often used to refer to the presenter or host of a programme. Sometimes the person who does…
Useful links – Jingles, Loops and Stings
How to make your own sound effects http://pinterest.com/sfxninja/i-see-sound-effects/ Royalty free and Creative Commons music http://pinterest.com/angelarees/license-free-creative-commons-music/ Also check out http://www.opsound.org/index.php
Writing News
(Adapted from the News Department, CJAM Radio, University of Windsor, 1981). Radio journalism is similar to storytelling. It is conversational in style. The choice of words must be similar to the listening audience’s vocabulary. The sentences should be short and uncomplicated. Use very few adjectives and stay away from quotes (people can’t hear quotation marks)….
Writing Content
The Basics Good writing is good writing. Whether you’re writing for radio, print, TV or the internet, a lot of the same basics apply. Clarity, good organization of your thoughts and themes and a vocabulary that your listeners/readers/viewers will understand are all important. But there are a few things that are specific to the medium…
