Interfacing Rivendell with the real world on a budget
So, you’ve got this lovely, expensive broadcast console your previous engineers have left for you sitting in your studio. And you’re using all of 3 microphone inputs and a few line inputs. And, of course, the logic facilities of the console are entirely ignored. It’s a shame, isn’t it? A microphone live light is a [...]
How to do an outside broadcast with NetJACK
On Tuesday night, Insanity Radio did a hugely successful outside broadcast from our student’s union event night. What we did was actually revolutionary in terms of the SU’s radio, and certainly isn’t something I’ve heard of another student station doing. The result was fantastic audio, a great sound overall, and a fun night. And near-zero [...]
Audio tools for Linux commandline geeks
At Insanity I’ve been doing a lot of things with audio. Clearly me being me, I wasn’t doing this using Windows – we’ve now finally made it to 50% Linux, 50% Windows at Insanity and I plan to keep nudging things in the Linux direction for ease of maintenance and use, and because it’s just [...]