Blank page, cup of tea, all other apps hidden, rain and distant thunder in headphones.
Listening to the latest episode of Connected, I felt for a brief moment as if Stephen was speaking to me personally. They were talking about Apple's new voice isolation feature, which turns out to not just be available for your microphone, but also as a audio unit. That means it can be used to process audio in most audio processing apps.
And this is where Stephen threw in a comment aimed directly at me, noting "it's not as good as what RX 10 does".
Phew, I guess?
No, not really. I should try it, because it could be one of those things which can get me a large part of the way for a fraction of the effort. Audio units can be simply dropped on tracks in Hindenburg and applied as you work, and it will most likely not have a ton of settings to play with.
Björeman // Melin // Åhs 350 was finished and published yesterday, processed by a glorius combination of RX 10 and Hindenburg. I wonder if I should change my recording formats now that RX 10 has entered the work pipeline? I have always recorded in more-than-enough quality mp3, but now that I end up converting to wav in any case, might there be some advantage in being wav all the way? The project folder for episode 350 landed at 13,5 GB! It is good that I have plenty of storage space … And that the NAS gets some exercise, right?
My ears are still really bad at mapping between the sound of the audio as I process and edit and the final sound after conversion to mp3 and export. One would think I would have developed a feel for it by now, but no, it still feels like a bit of a leap of faith every time.
Another thing we have completely failed to do even after 350 episode is to sort out the publishing of episode information. Turns out everyone, including me, expects that someone else will do a final polish of the episode information before the episode is published. We start with our own shared document for the episode, which is basically just a bullet list of topics to whatever level we wanted for the recording.
As I edit, I go through and add links and possible episode titles. But I rarely touch what we have already written, because surely someone will want that stuff to base the final show notes on, right? Sometimes I even add a note to myself in the editing process, like "Check the levels once the final edit is done".
Once I am done editing and have the finished files, I put the text and the mp3 in our shared folder, lean back and tell the others the episode is in the box.
Then someone picks it up and publishes, including the notes just as I left them.
What I am saying is: if you are quick, you can sometimes see dumb stuff in the episode information which other people will miss.
Bonus content, I guess?
All right, time to wrap up the work week. There will be ice cream.