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HTML5 Audio Tag Test

April 24 2012

Transom's Web Tool guy, Barrett Golding with an update on the current state of browser support for the HTML audio tag.

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Setting Up a Small Recording Studio UPDATE

February 2012

An update of one of our most popular features ever – Jeff Towne’s primer on setting up a small recording studio. It covers computer and software selection, the requisite hardware, along with equipment recommendations in various price ranges and pretty much everything you need on this topic, all in one place.

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PRX the Lion-Hearted

January 2012

Transom'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 2011

Transom 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 2011

Want 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 2011

Making 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 2011

Transom 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 2011

The 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 2011

Julia 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 2011

What'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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