What the heck happened to podcastersparadise.com and bovinefreepress.com?

Well here it is folks.

Throughout the summer I attempted various recording projects with mixed results except for two.

The first is that I was not happy with the "McGiver" like quality of my "recording studio". Which happily led directly to my new iMac and OS X.
 
Which led directly to the second result. A gutting of my basement and building of a proper recording studio with the desire to attain a controllable sound environment and electrical/electronic isolation..

And now, months later, I am almost there.  All that needs to be done is to get the window and door in and we are back in business.

Speaking of business if you would like to see what else has kept me busy of late then please feel free to visit my business sites:

http://icommplus.ca    and    http://dancemachine.ca

I look forward to getting back to podcasting on a regular basis and expanding podcastersparadise.com as a showcase for new artists, content and talent.
 
Please check back soon.  Until then why not listen to a back episode?

Thanks for visiting podcastersparadise.com!

RoB

podcasterparadise@gmail.com

Lil' Fuzzy's first CD is on the move. Track One - You're The One Check him out at lilfuzzy.com (coming soon!) You can contact Lil' Fuzz at: fuzz@lilfuzzy.com

This rough cut DEMO was recorded live at bovinefreepress.com studios.

Enjoy

RoB

Show Notes - The Grind Edition 019 Welcome to my summer holidays! Today's show features a recording made live, using my new secret weapon "the mobilecastlive" my new wearable studio. Featured today is a free concert put on by the High Commision of Trinidad and Tobago to Celebrate T&T Day here in Ottawa at the outdoor theatre of the National Art Gallery. Enjoy!

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Show Notes for Edition 018

We are back... finally!

It is time for a new edition of The Grind. Today I am joined by special guest Jonathan McKinnell from The Canadian Perspective podcast. We chat about a few things and most importantly listen to one of my newest LIVE recordings of Flook.

This is part two of set two recorded at Brockville, Ontario. I really like this theatre style matrix recording. Unfortunately there are about six seconds at the beginning of the set that are slightly distorted. Due to the live nature of the event I have conditioned but could not cut out this section. However, listen on with confidence.

Alright, the truth is I was listening to the recording of set one during the break and forgot to reset a few little bitty knobs to their recording positions, Arrrrg!. It was also quite a shock to the ears.

Although flawed this is probably my favorite "concert theatre" matrix type recording that I captured. It has some cool time signature changes that blend seemlessly together creating a unique synergy - says I.

Stayed tuned for more upcoming LIVE Flook sets in the future including a special acoustic only recording of the "Flook Unplugged" evening at The Georgian House in historic Alexandria.

Jonathan's choice for Web Site and Tech Tip of the Day:
mozilla.org and their Firefox browser.

Until next time.
RoB

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Shownotes for Edition 017 Thursday may 19, 2005

I am joined today by my sometimes cohost Greg Frankson (A.K.A. Ritallin, The Cerebral Stimulant).

Today's show features music and artistic work from:

• Flook
• Amanda Rheaume
• Ritallin
• Eric Rondeau
• Greg Hobbs
RoB


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Show Notes for Edition 016 Sunday Super Slam - Concert Special.
The long awaited Dub Trinity and Chet Singh show recorded live at the Mercury Lounge in Ottawa.

A mix of socially conscious dub poetry and reggae music. Too cool.

Also mixed into the show is an interview that I did with Chet from his home.

• Dub Trinity
• Chet singh

Special thanks to Beau Dixon.

RoB
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I am joined today by new occasional co-host Greg Frankson

We talk about my test recording trip last night with my new mobile setup to The Fergus Inn for their Wednesday Night Open Mic where I captured some great artists and also some great CD's

Thanks Amanda and Sola. plus don't miss Eric Rondeau on guitar, he was making it happen with a few wicked covers.

Today's show features music from:

• John Griffiths - The Grind
• Amanda Rheaume
• James McKenty and The Spades
• Eric Rondeau

RoB
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Join me with guest spoken word artist Greg Frankson as we check out some tunes and have our own little Mini Strategy Cast today on The Grind.

Todays show features music from:
TBC All hail Apple.
RoB

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Dear Listeners and Subscribers,

The Consistency Nazi (TCN) has kindly sent me a screen shot (see above graphic) of what he wants his iTunes playlist to look like when he downloads the show. My apologies.
Unfortunately, due to restrictions on how RSS works (or at least my understanding of how it works!) I cannot change the names of shows, particularly once "the dispersal" has begun. Most listeners do not want to receive my HUGE podcasts (see next point) again, at a lower quality, but with consistent ID3 tags.

Editor's note: Holy crap! I realized in hindsight, as I was working away, that I was assuming most applications reading enclosures will check against the MP3 names listed. If they also check against the ID3 tags themselves to decide wether or not do download them then I am in for a lot of flames. However (TCN) will be happy!

It makes me wish that I had a huge MEGA sponsor like Apple who wanted to support the little podcasters out here and immerse us in Apple technology so that these things really mattered, which of course they do, but I didn't think about them at the beginning. The learning curve of life as a podcaster can be steep.

So that (TCN) can sleep at night I have remade all the ID3 tags in the current back catalogue so that any new subscribers getting the old shows will have a spiffy playlist in iTunes. All new shows will carry the new ID3 tag format that I have used for about the last 4 shows.

Which brings up show sizes, sample rates and RSS feeds. All shows are now being sampled at 128 KPS. All shows in the back catalogue have been resampled to 128 KPS. This makes the shows about one third the original file size. I first tried 96 KPS but there was an ugly swooshing sound to the podcast. 128 KPS seems to be acceptable and not too big.

This should speed up downloads and also let new subscribers getting the olds shows not slow things down as much, which brings up RSS feeds.

I am looking at soon making two categories of RSS feeds a "PREMIERE EDITION" category and a "BACK EDITIONS" feed. I just have not figured out how to do it yet so that I don't waste subscribers bandwidth with a second download. I am open to suggestions and working on it. I am also looking for a solution to giving "priority" to downloads of the PREMIERE edition.

Thanks.
Rob McLeod,The Editor
bovinefreepress.com
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