Podcasts by DIY Recording Equipment Podcast
Weekly discussions of how to build your own gear for the recording studio.
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DIY Condenser Microphones with Scott Helmke from 2023-12-14T10:42:42.474036
Today, I discuss the ins and outs of making your own condenser microphones with Scott Helmke, creator of the popular Alice Microphone project. Scott walks us through how he designed the Alice micro...
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Designing Legendary Gear with Paul Wolff from 2017-06-22T16:42
Paul Wolff has designed more legendary pieces of gear than most of us have used. In his years with API alone, Paul designed the 550B EQ, 512 and 3124 mic preamps, Legacy console, and 2500 compre...
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Analog Synth DIY with Abby Echiverri from 2017-04-27T16:21
I've often fantasized about building a huge analog synth. But besides the obstacles of cost and not having a spare room in my house for it, I've always found the DIY synth world to be a bit inti...
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Chassis Design with Jon Erickson from 2017-02-16T12:35
We audio nerds love to talk about particular parts and circuitry—transformers, op-amps, discrete vs integrated, passive vs active, etc—but we rarely discuss the biggest part and the one we actua...
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"Explain Like I'm 5": Why Is Pro Audio Gear So Expensive? from 2015-02-27T17:17
Sticker shock is a common malady in the recording world. It takes a lot of money to outfit and maintain a studio. But why?
What are the factors that drive the price of professional recordi...
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"Explain Like I'm 5": Filters from 2015-01-29T14:32
How do filters work?
As audio engineers, we use filters every day. We're all intimately familiar with high-pass, low-pass, band-pass, shelf, etc. filters. But how do they actually work in ...
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“Explain Like I’m 5″: Audio Levels from 2014-12-11T20:22
What's the difference between "pro" and "consumer" line levels?
Is it ok to plug an instrument into a line level input?
What's the difference between peak and RMS levels?
In th...
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Talking Tubes with DW Fearn from 2014-08-26T12:07
"Explain Like I'm 5": Impedance from 2013-07-18T16:20
When I sent out thenewsletterannouncing the last "Explain Like I'm 5 Podcast,"...
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"Explain Like I'm 5": Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connections from 2013-07-11T12:30
This podcast marks the first of a new series in which I attempt to explain complex audio subjects so that a 5-year-old could understand them.
In this first "Explain Like I'm 5" podcast, I ...
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Mic Preamps and Surface-Mount Parts with Expat Audio from 2013-03-14T14:15
In this month's DIY podcast, I talk to Dafydd Roche of Expat Audio about their new Eden Mic Preamp.
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"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Audio Electronics..." Part 2 from 2012-12-31T12:42
Our resident electronics expert, Duncan Gray, is back to answer your audio electronics questions! Duncan and I recorded two hours of answers last week to the questions you asked in the original<...
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Is Open Source the Way Forward for DIY Audio? from 2012-11-14T13:33
DIY audio folks like to share--that's what makes us a community. My kits and theDIY Project Directoryare possible because others have s...
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Being a DIYer, Studio Owner, and Engineer with Marc Alan Goodman of Strange Weather Brooklyn from 2012-06-22T16:22
One thing I often wondered when I first got into DIY was whether any "real" producers and engineers built their own gear. So I was thrilled to visit Marc Alan Goodman at his studio Strange Weather ...
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"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Audio Electronics" Answers Podcast! (pt. 1) from 2012-06-11T11:13
Last week, I put out the call for you to ask"Everything you always wanted to know abou...
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What Makes API Gear Sound So Good? With Jeff Steiger of CAPI from 2012-05-12T17:30
Jeff Steiger of CAPI and I get nerdy about various vintage audio and DIY topics, including:
- Why create a company dedicated to vintage API gear? Why not Neve, SSL, etc.?
- Will w... Listen