6/27/2023 0 Comments Camtwist audio and micI plug my headphones into the headphone jack on my Mac. I plug my Heil PR-20 mic into my USB interface called the Fast Track from M-Audio, and the USB interface into USB on my Mac. First I plug in my audio input and output devices (my mic and headphones). I’m sure there’s other ways to avoid it but that’s how I do it.īut WAIT! Before I actually go live, I have to set some things up. No one’s brain can handle that! I find it works really well as the host to us Firefox with the Flashblock plugin, which lets me log in and instead of seeing myself and hearing myself, there’s just a big arrow there in it’s place. You can imagine how distracting that would be. the one danger of going to ustream when you’re streaming on ustream, is you could end up hearing and watching yourself! That would be a disaster of course, because there’s a several second delay. I get a big “broadcast now” button for me to click. the first thing I do is go to and I log in as nosillacast. It’s pretty interesting from a geek perspective and pretty amazing what we’re able to do. I thought it might be kind of interesting to explain how this all works. I’ve mentioned a bunch of times that I record the show live on Ustream on Sunday nights (at 5pm GMT-8) at /nosillacast. In fact I believe said, “audio, audio, audio.” Hope that clears it up! Alex Lindsay, who does very high end video podcasts, was asked at the New Media Expo, “what’s the most important thing to know about doing good video?” You can see where I’m going of course, he said “audio”. Can you remember a show you’ve listened to where they had consistently bad audio? Do you still listen to it? I’ve stopped listening to a single episode of one of my favorite shows because the audio was bad. The quality of your audio is second in importance only to the quality of your content, so make sure it’s as good as you can get it for the money you’re willing to spend. When you do get your real microphone, do some experimental recordings with the mic and the internal mic and then you tell me which sound more like something you’d want to listen to. I’ve used the DSP500 and it sounds pretty good for the money. I put a link in the shownotes to the Plantronics DSP400 over at Amazon (using my Amazon affiliate link of course) which is an excellent starter mic for $44. You don’t have to spend a ton of money on a headset. It will also pick up ambient room noise much more than a real microphone will. Well technically you certainly can, but I highly recommend against it. Podcasting, Ustream, Wiretap Anywhere, Cam Twist, recordingįirst some listener questions – MANY people ask if it’s ok if they just use the built-in mic for recording the podcast. Listen to the Podcast Once (16 min 38 sec) Watch the live show at 5pm GMT-8 on Sunday nights at /nosillacast. In this episode I answer why you shouldn’t use your built-in microphone, and then I go through the details of setting up Cam Twist for video, Wiretap Anywhere for audio, and the settings on Ustream itself.
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