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SOUNDBOARD SOFTWARE MANUAL
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A Physical Trigger for the Sounds: Ok, this is not strictly necessary as long as your sound utility allows hotkeys you just need to remember the keystrokes and hit them at the right time.More on this later, but in the end we chose Soundplant which is a cross-platform soundboard utility that costs $50 and meets all of our requirements.

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Third, and incredibly important for Windows machines, it needed to output to specific audio output device. Second, it needed to be able to fade out a sound easily so we could speak over the top of sound bites.

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First, it needed to have full hotkey support so we could be in a different program (for instance, a browser window) and trigger the sound. But it needed several features beyond what a lot of cheap programs that come up with a search for “soundboard” do.

A Utility To Play Sounds: First, we needed a program that would play various sounds on demand.

Note: do not try to use Chrome’s incognito function as this has some specific problems with the remote recording Zencastr does). Another alternative which we employ is to use Chrome with separate profiles, one for the vocal track and the other for the soundboard. However, if you use a second browser (for instance Chrome AND Firefox) it will treat these as separate participants. Zencastr knows if you open an additional tab in your browser, and doesn’t separately record a new tab.

A Way to Record a Second Track in Zencastr: This is easy but not intuitive to do.

We went through a lot of options before finding something that worked the way we wanted it to. So, we decided we needed to record a separate track with our soundtrack audio and edit marks.

But if that click is on a separate track with bumper audio, it is idiotically easy to pick out edit marks.

SOUNDBOARD SOFTWARE MANUAL

We tried this with a mp3 sound bite equivalent in the default Zencastr soundboard and found that it was still a bit hard to pick out, especially after doing manual post-processing. He recommends using a dog trainer “click” button on your vocal track to easily let you identify and edit out flubs or errors in your recording later. Flubs and Edit Points: One of the best tips we received early on in the podcasting process was from Mike Delgaudio, a profession VO artist who provides tips and tricks on his Booth Junkie Youtube channel.And the soundboard audio has things like the intro theme that was already noise reduced and processed ALREADY – we don’t want to do it again on the hosts track! The highs and lows of a vocal track don’t necessarily match up with the highs and lows of the soundboard audio. Having pre-recorded audio on a vocal track messes this process up. That includes equalization, normalization, and noise reduction. Post-processing: We do our own post-processing of each track in Audacity.While that might be ok for some, it caused problems for us: Unfortunately, even though Zencastr records a separate track for each participant, the audio from the soundboard gets recorded on the host track. It even lets you do trigger the sounds with hotkeys, and automatically fades out the sound when you hit it a second time, which is invaluable for talking over the end of intro music. You can use the default sounds or upload your own mp3s to use. And out of the box, Zencastr provides a soundboard tool that lets you mix in music or sound bites live into your recording session. We use Zencastr, which is a service that lets us record our podcast remotely. Or rather, we thought we already had a solution.

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We wanted a professional sounding podcast but didn’t want to spend time every week editing in the same sound bumpers and intro themes. “Mixing is WORK.” When we were first working on the concept for our comedy podcast, Interrupted Tales, the first thing that became clear is that we had very little extra time to devote to the hobby and needed to make the most of it.