PES 089: NAB Show Recap

The Podcast Engineering Show

I recap my experience at NAB last week, including our Mic Test Drive Booth and lots more including:

• BIG thanks to my booth brothers: Michael Helms, Josh Wade, and Landen Hardy!
• Our 10 mics, Mackie 1642VLZ4, MixPre-6 borrowed from Sound Devices, and a BP40 borrowed from Steve Savanyu at Audio-Technica.
• Sennheiser’s upcoming wireless clip on mic, and the Neumann U67 at their booth!
• My birthday gift - a Neewer mini microphone! Watch Bandrew Scott's video on this mic here.
• The Venue was HUGE - Las Vegas Convention Center. Booth traffic was OK. And I was interviewed twice - one audio and one video. I also mentioned my drive out there - TO Vegas via New Mexico and Arizona, FROM Vegas via Utah and Colorado.

And it was great to hang out with:

• Rob Walch - Libsyn
• Todd Cochrane, Mike Dell, MacKenzie - Blubrry
• Jennifer Crawford and Vernon Ross - Podbean
• Rob Greenlee - Voxnest
• Eric Larsen - Tascam
• Sean and Ira - Samson
• Podfest guys - Chris Krimitsos, John Dennis
• Podcast Movement guys - Jared Easley, Dan Franks
• Allan Tepper
• Emma Victoria
• Austin Dillman - REV
• Angela Copeland

Other stuff:

Skype Has a Big Announcement for Content Creators: Skype was proud to announce the new Skype for Content Creators, which looks to be what podcasters have been asking for, for years. The new feature is available in preview form now (at NAB) and should be widely available in the summer for both Mac and Windows 10 users. Skype for Content Creators records calls directly through NDI-capable software like Wirecast, Xsplit, and Vmix. The feature provides "clean" copies of all call participants that you can quickly drop into audio and video production apps, so you can focus more on the content and publishing of your show, and less on double-checking everyone's recordings.

I detail how I mixed an episode using the wrong Sonarworks profile, and then had to correct it. Because I had already done many edits, it wasn’t an option to go back to the mix and adjust the individual tracks.

Lastly: Congrats to the current students enrolled in PES! Next semester starts June 26th and super-early-bird pricing still available.

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