Testing for upcoming Happy Hour broadcast.

Here is a screenshot of what I shall be using to broadcast to the Quackhouse Radio server starting Jan 2015 after a four-year hiatus.  The old Saturday Night Trifecta shall be resurrected as Happy Hour.  The new show will be broadcast on Saturday evening from 8PM – 12AM Eastern time starting with 3 Jan. 2015.

RadioBossplugins0This is the RadioBoss main window, running through a test run of the beginning of what will be the first return broadcast.

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Here, you see the RadioBOSS main window, which is mostly obscured except for the two main output plugins that I am using: Izotope Ozone 4 and ToneBoosters ReelBus.  They give excellent control over the broadcasted signal, including adding some analog tape effects to counteract the harshness of digital mp3s.  😉

One real problem that I noticed was with keying up the dynamic voice mic that I’m using for ‘voiceovers’.  There seemed to be a great deal of hiss and background noise.

RadioBossplugins2.jpgHere, you can see me setting up the VST plugins that I inserted into the mic chain.  On the top, is ToneBoosters De-esser, and below that is ToneBoosters Gate.  Not shown is the built in compressor that I set to -6dB.  To the left is the output plugin Ozone that you can see is 15dB down since the mic is keyed.  I think this is a winning combination, and after another test or two, I shall try to set up the podcast blog.