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\"\"<\/a>My throat is sore, the result of today’s mashup. \u00a0First, I admit, I’ve wanted to do a podcast for about two years now, but \u00a0I’ve never been brave enough to attempt it. \u00a0Secondly, today is the tile people’s day to come replace the carpet in the flooded bathroom with tile. \u00a0I could work through the smell of the stain and the noise of the wood saws, but I couldn’t bear the high pitched ceramic saws. \u00a0Third, publication day is approaching for Falling Bakward and I have to do my final read-aloud to chase out the bad bits before I commit it to paper.<\/p>\n

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So, I picked up my draft copy and my laptop and retired to the RV\u2013a nice quiet place to work. \u00a0Quiet enough to risk recording while I read the text out loud. \u00a0My new laptop came with Photo Booth, which is a cute little photo and movie recording program. \u00a0I thought, “why not?”. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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I opened the pages and started recording. \u00a0By the time I’d finished chapter 2, I realized that this just wasn’t going to work. \u00a0Photo Booth is cute, but it’s a toy program really. \u00a0The recording had dropped out twice, so I ended up reading the same chunk of text again to fill in the missing parts.<\/div>\n
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Time to move up to Garageband. \u00a0This was a real recording program, with filters to match the iChat microphone on my laptop and podcast support. \u00a0Luckily, I was able to move the Photo Booth recordings into Garageband as well, so I didn’t have to re-read those chapters still again. \u00a0(I went Photo Booth to iPhoto, drag out of iPhoto, export audio with Quicktime Player and then drag the aiff file into Grarageband. \u00a0Probably there’s a lot easier way to do it, but I wasn’t after a workflow, just a one time conversion.)<\/div>\n
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Diving into Garageband with no instruction, I made a couple of errors before I learned how to slice and dice the audio tracks, and I made still more errors in exporting the podcast episodes into iWeb. \u00a0But before too long I had recorded an intro and the first three chapters, posted them to the web<\/a> and felt confident that I could keep it up until the novel was finished.<\/div>\n
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Of course, my throat is sore, and it will take a number of days to get everything recorded. \u00a0And yes, my printout has lots of ink marks where this name gets changed to that, and this awkward description is re-worked. \u00a0We’ll see just how this experiment works out. \u00a0I just hope the quality is good enough. \u00a0I’ll also have to decide how long to leave it up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My throat is sore, the result of today’s mashup. \u00a0First, I admit, I’ve wanted to do a podcast for about two years now, but \u00a0I’ve never been brave enough to attempt it. \u00a0Secondly, today is the tile people’s day to come replace the carpet in the flooded bathroom with tile. \u00a0I could work through the… Continue reading Falling Bakward Podcast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[238,312,59,313,308],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/FallingBackward640.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Dw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}