Ocenaudio (properly pronounced: Oh • sen Aud • io) is a wonderful, free audio program that is loved by voice actors everywhere. It has evolved quite a bit over time, so I thought it would be a good idea to go over everything that you’d need to know.
First Stop: Preferences…
The settings in...
In the latter weeks of the Couch to 5K program, I decided not to post a weekly update. Things felt too variable and I didn’t feel that I had enough time to reflect upon the changes. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I feel like I have a few things to share.
The Less Gear the Better
Don’t get h...
As many of you know, recently, I have been struggling with spending too much time on social media. Deleting and shutting down accounts isn’t really an option for me, not in my line of work. I had been trying to segregate personal use from professional use. I was using apps to limit my access to o...
Week 4 added 7 minutes to the total running time. This morning’s run, the third and final one, was easier than the earlier ones. Definitely encouraging! I had been worried that it was all too much too soon.
I start Week 5’s runs on Saturday. That run will mark the first time in the program that I...
Week 3 of Couch to 5K was nothing to be scared of. In retrospect, in a way, it was a reduction of total time in motion, total run time was equal to week 2, and was really there to get me comfortable with taking fewer breaks in my run.
In weeks 1 through 4, each week changes 1 thing — each one, a m...
I’m finding it a lot easier to add running to my life than limiting social media from it.
With running, I can avoid all the easy traps. Apps, gadgets, scales/measures and the like, all get in the way of running. I’m running because I enjoy running. If it becomes habitual, it will help me stay heal...
Seven years ago, I regularly ran between 5 and 10 kilometers a few times a week. I was also at the my lowest adult weight (not my healthiest weight, mind you). I only ever entered 1 official 5k race. Competitive running was not for me.
I enjoyed finding my body’s inner pace, listening to an audi...
ocenaudio is a wonderful, freeware, audio editor that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux!
It’s a very capable tool that is always adding new features. Today, we’re focusing on Punch Recording (or Punch & Roll).
☕ Cup of Coffee
A ridiculous amount of caffeine was consumed while researching.
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“There’s a sucker born every minute.” — David Hannum (not P. T. Barnum)
Make no mistake, the confluence of advancements in recording technology and an increased demand for new media creation in many formats has indeed created a boom in the voiceover industry. Many of the new formats and technolog...
No fancy script. No hacks. Just simple, straight forward, Punch & Roll recording. For free on all Macs, Windows, and Linux computers.
OcenAudio comes through with a feature that I mentioned to them back when I interviewed them in May of 2014. Isn’t it great to find a developer that really liste...
Doing proper research before recording an audiobook can be crucial to the success of the project. If you’re like me, the research happens in fits and starts. Sometimes, making notes while reviewing the text, and sometimes having moments of insight only after allowing the text to sit for a while. Hav...
Even us creative types need to remember that when all is said and done, we are running a business. And businesses live or die on information. Oodles of information, that may or may not be useful, come our way — all day, every day. Without a reliable method to parse all of that data, valuable connect...
iZotope must be feeling the heat! RX has some solid competition in the audio repair space coming from the talented coders at Acon Digital. Acon having set the price of their Resoration Suite at $99, may have been responsible for iZotope’s recent promotion of a new version of RX on sale at $99 (r...
When striving to address the various learning modalities, Auditory Learners sometimes get shortchanged. After all, we “talk to” students during every lesson, doesn’t that serve their needs?
No, not really.
Like their visually or kinesthetically-oriented classmates, auditory learners benefit from...
