Children of teh Atom

bristle-krs · Last edited by bristle-krs on Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:17 pm; edited 3 times in total

post up if you're working on summat, or if you need help, or whatnot

there are various other threads & stickies addressing specific subjects (eg how to podcast), but i figured it might be nice to have a thread just for those work-in-progress issues which might get lost elsewhere, and which might not in themselves warrant a whole new thread each time.

okay, currently i am about 25 minutes into the 5th bootleg show, and have done 15 mins on the film/soundtrack show. i've also got a few folders set aside with an eye on both a non-bootleg music show, and a covers-only music show. i think i should have one show ready by the end of this week, and another by the end of the next.

things i'm interested in are some decent idents - if anyone's made any spiffy tcre jingles any chance of a lend? - and also film soundtracks/incidental music/foley/sound fx etc. dialogue isn't too much of a problem, it's ambient sounds and stuff i'm really after, plus resonant theme music and recurring motifs. i don't want to say what i'm already working with, it'd ruin the surprise

also, i'd really like to collaborate on some speech programming...

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

excellent idea

i'll contribute a few jingles. maybe we could upload our jingles onto soundclick so we can share and share alike. i'll set something up tomorrow

i'll do some speech if you have anything in mind. gimme a theme....

i have about half of the tunes for my next show, once i feel the pressure i just tend to go and collect the rest and chuck the rest together in a couple of hours (who'd a thunkit)

if anyone wants background music for the fill ins i can literally churn it out

RaverDrew · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

My laptop has just gone pop and keeps giving out massive sparks when I try to plug it in. Gonna try and borrow a hd caddy to see if I can rescue my radio show I'm working on, off the hard disk.

Not the end of the world if it is all gone though, just many hours wasted.

misskitty · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject:

Poor Drew!

Yeah we need some proper good jingles. I haven't had the means to make good ones, I literally just texted my landline with mine, and recorded it into a mic!

Audacity peeps: do you find it gets really temperamental if you have too many tracks going on at once? I have been using new tracks for each sound clip, and it gets all very slow, sometimes closing by itself. I've found I've had to do half of the show, then mix down to a wav before carrying on with the second half. Is there an easy way to avoid this? :-/

wraeth · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject:

fekkin hopeless but well meaning

hiccup · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject:

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

misskitty · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject:

You can't put all the soundy clips on one track very easily, cos you need to align all the little bits with the end/start of tunes, and you can't have lots of little unconnected clips on one track, it won't allow it (if that makes sense)! You would have to have it recording between the bits, and then it would become difficult to manouevre the clips to where you wanted them iyswim, which you probably don't cos I ain't explaining it very well...

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject:

positive vibes to the deribnster, the drew-man, el hiccuppo and young barnabusy bee - keep the faith

misskitty · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject:

strung out · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:25 am Post subject:

well, i've got all the tracks for my next show, doing a show with a glitch/dnb/ragga/hiphoppy/other vibe. all a bit weird, but i think it should make sense when it's finished. i still haven't figured out how to use audacity properly yet, i just cowboyed it for my first radio show.

should hopefully make a start in the next few days. i'm going to have a go at making some idents etc. are there any free decent voice generator tings on web that anyone knows about? how did you do robotic voices etc krs?

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

wraeth · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

Mac smt:076 :-/ :?

strung out · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

widget believe it? :?

hiccup · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

Re: robot voices etc, you can use vst effects with audacity if you install the vst enabler:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/plugins

and I'm sure there are free vocoder/robot filters out there. Then you could robotize your own voice.

Or there are definitely a few free text > speech websites out there, cos I used one of them in the past. I'll see if I can find one.

your mum · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject:

I've re-taught myself to mix in a decent manner. However, I still don't have a computer or broadband, so it's going to take a while before I record anything.

First out the gates will be an oldskool mix (natch) from the '92 era. After that I think I'm gonna do a load of short mixes (4 or 5 tunes) focusing on one artist or label.

hiccup · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject:

misskitty · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Yay radioshows!

Ninjadmin · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:38 am Post subject:

Ninjadmin · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:45 am Post subject:

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wraeth · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:36 am Post subject:

Ninjadmin · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:14 am Post subject:

strung out · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

I need some idents!

The microphone port on my pc is fucked so i can't do any speaking (and i sounded like a nob when i tried it on misskitty's computer anyway

) so i need a few idents and shit just to say something like "this is the coolest radio ever" and "visit www.thecoolestthingever.co.uk" etc etc

the ones i tried doing last time sounded a bit shite i reckon. i want some robot voices or something

strung out · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

oh yeah, and any wicked sound effects to go on the idents would be cool as well

Ninjadmin · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

someone remind me tommorow to set up a soundclick for the idents

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:13 am Post subject:

right, after some teething troubles yesterday, the film-themed music show seems well under way, and fingers crossed it'll be ready tomorrow... just about another quarter-hour of stuff to put in there... so stand by your bunks

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:14 am Post subject:

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:36 am Post subject:

am so hungover atm

misskitty · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:28 am Post subject:

Haha, apparently I go a mention on STAR fm this morning from Kev from Bristol Bands, but I missed it. Dang!

wraeth · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

ooo - well done

Hopefully someone was recording it or summat.

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

uh oh... film music show is clocking in at 1h37mins so far, and it's still not finished

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

finish it then render it chipmunks style

misskitty · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:32 am Post subject:

podomatic estimates 6 hours to upload...

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:34 am Post subject:

right, i've paused everything else, should now be available by around 9am

Isambard · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:28 am Post subject:

bristle-krs · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject:

have updated the podcast update thread - now called TheCoolestRadioEver podcast page! coolestradio.podomatic.com - to make it clearer what it's for, and to give it a clearer title.

have updated the index thread - now called TheCoolestRadioEver! TCRE download page... - again to make it clearer, and to remove dead megaupload (etc) links, and to link to relevent threads and podcast pages.

have updated the actual coolestradio podcast page so ninja's, misskitty's, strung out's and my last shows are all there; there's also another ninja mix there, but there's space for another 2 or 3 shows. i have also added links to the respective podomatic pages in each episode.

Ninjadmin · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject:

i have my show about 80% complete, first mixdown finished

i'll do the editing tomorra. sounds pretty badass if i do say so myself