Low-Tech Audio Blogging

Hello again. Yesterday's audio blog post was a simple sample of what the internt and blogging can allow you to do. For those who don't know and would like to try this out, here are the simple to follow instructions.

For Windows Users

-Go to Start, then Programs, click Accesories, then Entertainment and open up Sound Recorder.
-Press Record and speak into your mic.
-Once you're finished, Save the .wav file.
-Convert the .wav file to .mp3 by using an MP3 Encoder like Musicmatch Jukebox, Audacity or iTunes.
-The following is the important step. You need to upload the MP3 to an File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site. If you don't have one, you can try one for Free at WS FTP, CuteFTP or Filezilla.
-Next, you'll create a blog and insert a link that will access the MP3 file when it's clicked.

Your link should be something like this:

"http://www.intelliprotech.com/justin/Thurs%2012-14-2006.mp3"

Now put the link in the "a href" Html command.

That should do it. Leave audio messages for your friends and co-workers.

If you're not satisfied with the quality of this (it's not that great), you'll probably want to invest in a nice microphone and audio editing software to create these.

One way is to record them in Apple's Garageband using a Marshall MXL V69 Tube Condenser Mic (which is what we'll be using from now on to audio blog/Podcast). This should boost the quality, tone and just about everything else you can do to enhance an audio signal before uploading and linking to the blog.

Enjoy.