Now you, too, can feel right there with us as we brave the soul-sucking terrors!
I’ve been told more than once that I’ve got a good voice for radio. Or was that a good face for radio?
Last weekend we decided to go lake-spanking again, and this time I brought my little digital audio recorder…
I’ve since ripped the recorder open, desoldered the built-in condenser microphone, and hacked in a short cable with a 1/8″ jack so I can plug in a “real” microphone – even if my “real” microphone is just a cheap little thing intended for a computer. (It’s still an improvement in the sound quality). I’ve been recording bits and pieces while I drive to and from work and learning to use Audacity to clean up and reassemble the bits.
I’m digusted to find that Google Maps® strips out references to embedded material (<object>, <embed>, <iframe>, etc.) so I’ve had to have the linked material (larger photographs and audio – both with an embedded player and directly downloadable mp3’s) pop up in a separate page for now – anyone know a way around this?
Oh, yes, and the mp3’s are also geotagged using the geostring format I’ve been advocating, as are the photos.
Complaints that I sound stupid and/or smell bad may be made in the comments below…
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Well, I enjoyed it! Catie needs to speak up so she can give you a hard time on your “broadcast”. It sounds like you are having a good time. Did you learn to roll the kayak? I think that is hard to do with a double as both people need to be in sync to do it.
I happened to mention that I was thinking about sticking the recorder in a plastic bag (to protect it from the water) and then clip the now-external microphone to the brim of the hat I wear when I go paddling, so I could do a more continuous audio tour, and Catie mentioned wanting a microphone too…
We may try it this weekend. Either I’ll rig up a plastic-wrapped mixer and run a microphone from it for each of us, or we can each bring our own recorders and I can sync up the sound tracks from them later…
We didn’t double-roll the kayak – she rented a separate one so we could both learn individually. It was kind of fun…
Well Catie says: I didn’t know he was recording podcast stuff! Next time I’ll be prepared for his perfidy, recording me while I innocently paddle along…