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While I’m on the subject of low-budget studio kit for improving recordings, take a look at this neat technique for building a small “desktop sound booth".

One of the real challenges of recording sound is making sure the only noise that reaches the mic is your voice. Ambient noise from office fans and chatter must be eliminated for the recording to sound professional. However, not every company can afford the luxury of a professional sound booth with acoustic panels. Depending on how ambitious you are there are some tricks of the trade you can employ:

Read more at: Cut down on the noise.

Want some wierd and quirky media to mix in with your podcast or audio art? UBUWEB have certainly gathered an interesting collection which may prove worth exploring.

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Some people reckon that podcasting is complicated. Lloyd Davis thinks otherwise …

Read more at: Perfect Path: Podcasting…complicated???? Do me a favour!

As mentioned by Andy at Slashdot Review, jake Luddington has written a detailled set of instructions on how to build a “pop screen” to clean up your podcast recordings.

Read more at: Build Your Own Microphone Pop Screen

Hmm. Looks like the Sony PSP is lining up to become an “iPod for video". Software is already appearing to support podcast-like auto-download …

“people in Japan are creating weird little clips already encoded in the PSP format” to distribute through BitTorrent, says Cherian. “They want other people to download and watch (the videos), and they want to get comments and feedback. I think it’s going to be pretty popular.”

Read more at: Cinema Minima: Personal Digital Cinema: news service for movie-makers