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Engineering a Podcast

April 26, 2005 › Sandy McMurray | comment

Last week I promised I'd share more about my podcasting adventures. Today, I'm pleased to announce Radio Fireball, a downloadable MP3 audio show I've developed with the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University.

I'll be doing four podcasts over the course of the summer. They're all aimed at encouraging students to consider studying engineering at McMaster. It's the first time I know of that a Canadian university has used podcasting to appeal to students. It took Lucy Sheung at Mac about five seconds to decide to jump on it. Very cool.

I recorded most of the audio using a flash memory MP3 recorder from iRiver with a very nice audio-technica mic plugged into it. I assembled the podcast in Apple's Garageband and recorded bridging narration straight into Garageband using an external USB mixer. I also used Amadeus and Sound Soap to clean up and fine edit the audio tracks. Hope you like it. More details later this week.

April 26, 2005 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item