Q: What goes in to the production of a radio show?
A: It involves no sleep, lots of staring at the screen, listening to the same sounds repeatedly and working really fast with keyboard shortcuts.
A: It involves no sleep, lots of staring at the screen, listening to the same sounds repeatedly and working really fast with keyboard shortcuts.
The show can be broken down into a few parts. The songs that we choose to play, the program jingles (intro and outro), a music bed and a heap of sweepers which are used to segue between songs and also tagged on the start and ending of songs. They are made up of a voice over announcing our program, The Limelight Hour on SYN 90.7 fused with a bunch of sound effects.
The songs are pretty straight forward. Once they are imported into the program, I'd balance the levels over all the tracks to make sure they are of equal loudness.
Recording the jingle was heaps of fun. Thanks heaps to Julian the lightning speed Pro Tools man, for recording and for the studio time. The jingle was pretty much recorded and mixed within 1.5 hours.
The sweepers are the most fun. Although sweepers are only 5 secs worth of audio, there's actually a lot that goes into them. Firstly, the Voice Over (VO) will be treated to give it a cool effect and sound. Then I'd layer several effects and tweak them to make it sound like one heck of a giant effect. Look out for these sweepers when you tune in to The Limelight Hour next Saturday, on SYN 90.7
Just in case you're wondering what we look like. This is the only picture of all of us together freezing at a bus stop.
The songs are pretty straight forward. Once they are imported into the program, I'd balance the levels over all the tracks to make sure they are of equal loudness.
Recording the jingle was heaps of fun. Thanks heaps to Julian the lightning speed Pro Tools man, for recording and for the studio time. The jingle was pretty much recorded and mixed within 1.5 hours.
The sweepers are the most fun. Although sweepers are only 5 secs worth of audio, there's actually a lot that goes into them. Firstly, the Voice Over (VO) will be treated to give it a cool effect and sound. Then I'd layer several effects and tweak them to make it sound like one heck of a giant effect. Look out for these sweepers when you tune in to The Limelight Hour next Saturday, on SYN 90.7
Just in case you're wondering what we look like. This is the only picture of all of us together freezing at a bus stop.
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