Text introducing Jimmy Carter and the Calliope goes here.

Text introducing Williamson’s Place goes here.

Ok, tonight’s exercise:  I looked up some simple guidance on Garageband compressor and equalizer settings for podcast use.  I applied the following to two recordings that I had recently made:

Channel Compressor Threshold to -17.0dB, Ratio to 3.1:1, Attack to 9ms, and Gain to 7.0dB.

Mastertrack Compressor Threshold to -15.0, Ratio to 2.0:1, Attack to 9.0ms, and Gain to 4dB

Then I outputed them via Share: Export Song to Disk, mp3, 64kbps.  Then, to wordpress, uploading them into the media library.   Then I created this page, tucking it under the “About” page.  I think I will create these  story-pages as posts so they show up in the array along with the other stories.

I found out that I lost a recording:  The Man in the Red Shoes.  I must have failed to save it after I had recorded it because it was just another copy of Jimmy Carter.  No matter.  I need to just record it again.  I can use the practice.

I plan to keep going and record a story every day for the next week or so. I’m focusing on the routine of going downstairs, setting up, and talking.  I’m not doing a lot of planning.  I make just a little notepad sketch of my bullet points, then press “record”.  I’m trying to record in one take or two, aiming for comfort, before I focus on lowering my error rate.   Then I’ll re-evaluate.  Maybe I’ll switch to more preparation.  But for now, my hunch is I first need practice and familiarity to become more fluid with this off-the-top-of-my-head storytelling.

I’ll also pay attention to the audio settings later, as I go along.  How do these two recording sound with regard to the audio level, noise, clarity, etc?