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Recording Internet Radio
There are thousands of Internet Radio stations on the Web. They are broadcasting everything from chat radio to top 40 to anything you can imagine. A big problem, though, is that you can't listen to these stations very easily from your car. In this article, I will show you how you can record Internet radio stations, store them on your MP3 player and play them back whenever, or wherever, you happen to be.
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Radi-osophy HD100
Many people don't realize this but most of us use the radio in our cars almost all the time, but when we're at home we usually listen to playlists in iTunes, Windows Media Player, or some other music player. We hardly ever have a radio that we listen to at home. But what if you had a radio that you would listen to at home? Would you buy one that stands alone or one that you can plug into your audio system?
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NAB Preview: mediaproxy company manager Erik Otto discusses video and radio logging tools, IPTV,
mediaproxy (NAB Booth N1933) will be showcasing some new products at NAB for video monitoring and radio logging. Company manager Erik Otto also discusses the company's investment into IPTV as well as the broadcaster's move away from VHS-based logging systems.
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Getting Konnekted
It's not like the world needed another mid-priced audio interface. But there's always room for a good one, and that is what TC Electronic has delivered with its new Konnekt 8, a bus-powered FireWire device with great-sounding converters and microphone preamps.
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3D Audio Editing in Audition 2.0
The Frequency Space Editing toolset in Adobe Audition is like a set of Ginzu knives ? you can slice and dice audio files as finely as you wish. But by combining the Frequency Space Editing tools with Audition?s regular audio editing tools, you can practically fricassee your files. In this followup to my previous tutorial, Adobe instructor Dennis Radeke shows some techniques for greatly expanding Audition's Frequency Space Editing options.
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Adobe Audition Saves the Day
What do you get when you closely mic an acoustic guitar that needs some setup work, playing a piece with sliding chords? A chorus of squeaks and buzzes to accompany the guitar. That's what I was faced with recently, and the prognosis was grim. But fortunately, Adobe Audition's Frequency Space Editing feature succeeded at solving the problem after everything else had failed.
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SONAR 6 Raises the Bar
Although Cakewalk?s SONAR 6 upgrade incorporates about 100 new features, its overall development was guided by two mantras -- control and sound quality, according to Cakewalk's director of public relations Steve Thomas. In this interview, he gives a comprehensive overview of how Cakewalk is augmenting its 64-bit audio engine with a host of new workflow control features.
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Plugins with a Twist
You?ve got to hand it to Roger Nichols. The veteran engineer/producer turned software developer has come up with some of the most creatively named plugins on the professional audio market, including Uniquel-izer, Frequal-izer, and Dynam-izer. Altogether, there are five plugins in the line, rounded out by Finis and Inspector XL (thankfully not named Finis-izer and Inspector-izer). Here in Part 1 of a two-part review, we look at the compressor/limiters Dynam-izer and Finis.
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Quick Groups in SONAR
SONAR 5 has a neat trick called Quick Groups for controlling volume and panning settings for multiple tracks by moving just one control. While the same results could be achieved with automation envelopes, the advantage of using Quick Groups is that there's no need to set up envelopes or nodes. Here's how it works.
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iBiquity CEO Bob Struble Hails HD Radio's Progress
In October 2002, a technology developed by iBiquity Corp. was approved by the FCC as the delivery method for digital radio broadcasting in the U.S. For the company?s CEO Bob Struble, there was little time to celebrate, however. While the selection was a major coup for iBiquity, which licenses the technology, the next phase in HD radio?s evolution was equally crucial ? public acceptance. In this interview, he offers his assessment of the progress HD Radio has made with broadcasters, retailers and the public ? and looks ahead to the development of a mass market.
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