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PRX the Lion-Hearted
January 10 2012Transom's Barrett Golding has started creating basic Web Guides, useful to radio producers, journalists, and storytellers: How-To Features on presenting your multimedia work online. Up now, Barrett dissects the just released, lightning-fast PRX Converter for Mac Lion. A new world needs new tools. Gear up.
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Tascam DR-40
December 2011Transom is always searching for the ideal field recording devices at the lowest cost. Our TOOLS Editor Jeff Towne just reviewed the new Tascam DR-40 and says, “At last! The recorder we’ve been waiting for! Well, almost…” Read all about it.
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Make Some Noise
October 2011Want sound in your site? Here's a few ways to inject audio into your posts. A lavishly linked survey of web-audio players, with some how-tos and lots of where-to finds.
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HTML5 Audio Player
October 2011Making audio work on Apple mobile devices, using the new HTML5 audio tag in the WordPress Audio Player.
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Sony PCM-M10
September 2011Transom is featuring another of Jeff’s ongoing series of affordable gear tests, this time, the Sony PCM-M10. It fills a niche somewhere between smartphone and professional recorder. Read on for a complete rundown on all the features, with photos, comparison chart, and audio tests.
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Hindenburg Journalist Update
September 2011The audio producing software, Hindenburg Journalist has a bunch of new features. Jeff Towne runs them down for you, complete with illustrations and his customary hand-holding. This is the application we’ll be using at our upcoming Transom Story Workshop, so we’ll have more to report after that, but right now, we’re liking it.
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Cultivating the Editor in Your Brain
June 2011Julia Barton has been thinking about what a good editor does, and how a producer might do some of that work in advance. This is a really useful Transom feature for all of us crafting order from chaos.
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Levels
May 2011What's a good level? Not too hot, not too cold. Just right. Our TOOLS editor Jeff Towne spends a lot of time answering this perennial audio question. Transom is proud to present Jeff's Everything You Wanted to Know About Levels feature, and then some--with audio and visual examples, links to products and resources, the works. Print it out and study it, so you don't have to ask again.
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SoundCloud & Audioboo
February 2011Our TOOLS editor Jeff Towne looks at audio sharing platforms: SoundCloud and Audioboo. Both services create their own contexts and also integrate easily with social media like Facebook and Twitter. You can upload highly produced audio from your computer or record directly from your mobile device.
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Life After Salt
January 2011Transom invited seven graduates of the Radio Program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies to check in with us and tell us how they’re doing—the opportunities they’ve found and what they’ve produced since leaving Portland, Maine.
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