Buy Podcasting Made Easy. How many hours do you spend levelling up the audio of your podcast after the recording is completed? Well, here’s some tips on how to void all that by simply keeping a very close eye on the audio levels while you are recording.
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Buy Podcasting Made Easy. Most podcasters have little hope of soundproofing their home studio, but reducing room reverb is possible and it doesn’t need to cost a fortune (now look unsightly).
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Imposter syndrome can stop you from creating great podcasts and putting yourself out there to share your expertise, knowledge and ideas. While other people might be more knowledgable, they’re not making podcasts – you are. Dig deep and give it all you’ve got!
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First broadcast in 2001, and featuring just 13 episodes before it was axed, The Lone Gunmen is a must-watch TV series – if only for the number of fictional plots that became a reality.
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In this edition of The Channel I step back to 1968/1970 to take a look at Land of the Giants. A classic Irwin Allen series that placed the crew and passengers of a spacecraft on a planet where everything is bigger than on Earth. Huge props, big ideas, camera tricks, and no computer graphics.
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The Master Compellor in the RodeCaster Pro II is a compressor/leveller/limiter based on APHEX technology, and designed to dynamically control the main mix output for a polished, balanced podcast sound. In this podcast I explain the purpose of the Threshold, Attack, Release, and Gain so you understand how it works and how you can use
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The original Prisoner series starring Patrick McGoohan is still compulsive viewing despite it first airing in 1967. In this review, Steve Hart takes a look at the show that is as mind boggling today as it was almost 50 years ago. All in 12 minutes too!
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The Owl Service was first broadcast during the UK winter of 1969-1970 and features the confusing tale of three teenagers on holiday in rural Wales. They get embroiled in a local legend involving a lady made of flowers, an ancient standing stone, and a tea service with an image of what looks like owls on
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Timeslip was first broadcast in the UK in 1970. The four-part series shot two kids – Liz and Simon – back and forth through time as they fought to save planet earth. While recorded in colour, all but one survive as black and white episodes. Take a trip back to 1970 and 1971 and re-live
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From modest beginnings to becoming a household name in the UK, comedy actor Tony Selby enjoyed a career that included stage, TV, and motion pictures. This profile is a clip from my review of Ace of Wands, the show that gave Tony his big TV break.
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In this episode of The Channel I look at movies and documentaries that feature radio stations and DJs. Among them is FM, Talk Radio, Good Morning Vietnam, and others… Plus a bonus item after the credits.
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Children of the Stones is a scary children’s TV serial produced by HTV and first broadcast in 1977. It follows father and son (Adam and Mathew Brake) as they arrive in the Wiltshire village of Avebury to study Neolithic standing stones. There, they find the villagers under a mysterious spell. Stars Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7)
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In the latest episode of The Channel I’m reviewing a cult movie that looks like it was made in the sixties, but was actually made in the mid-1980s. This classic film, loaded with one-liners and laugh-out-loud scenes, features the first motion picture appearances of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann. It flopped when it was
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