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.
How to draw a signal-line plan
Useful Nicecast Links
Useful How To blog here Troubleshooting ideas here
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…
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’…
Basic Set Up
This pdf file Basic Setup has step by step instructions using only a Mac, Nicecast software, a Microphone and Mixing Desk.
Nicecast Tutorial 1
Mixing Desk Tutorial
Mixer Level Tutorial
Microphone Tutorial
Audacity Tutorial 1: Voice Recordings
Radioanywhere have produced a series of simple tutorials. Follow the link below for one on voice recording using Audacity. Audacity Voice Tutorial Audacity is free, open source recording software for Windows, Linux or Mac and can be downloaded here.
Video killed the radio star
Bet you thought that getting the radio on your TV was a modern idea. Here’s a combined television-radio from 1949!
