WFYB RADIO is back in bussiness

[Jixby Phillips]

oh man check it out its back in bussiness

http://68.189.62.245:8000/listen.pls

copy that into your favorite media player like realplayer or winamp

check it out a lot of music and fun stuff from your favorite goofballaholics at the best buds club

[nothing4buddha]

i missed wfyb radio :(

[MetalMilitia]

who are the people presenting it?

[MetalMilitia]

p.s. thats the worst impression of Hugh Grant I have ever heard :lol

[GADZOOKS]

That was fartin mowler who died a month ago, fuck you.

[Juttin]

Not alot of people know this,but the B in WFYB stands for Bitch. The FYB stands for Fuck You Bitch.

[bigtimecow]

HOW ABOUT THE COMIC HUH WHAT ABOUT THE FUCKING COMIC HUH


lol listen pls

[Chojin]

fartinmowler died?

[GADZOOKS]

http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=20096

By the way, Jixby stepped out for a while, I don't know how long he intends to play Wedding DJs Greatest Hits.

[Jixby Phillips]

just so all yall know this is gonna play like 24 hours a day (except when i turn off my computer to let it cool down)

[Chojin]

yeah but i mean he didn't actually die right ;<

[GADZOOKS]

I don't think he's even off the internet

[EisigerBiskuit]

There's a ghost in this song

[Sam]

I remember one time I was on WFYB radio for like 5 minutes and I could barely be heard. :(

[GADZOOKS]

That was when Willie was still part of the show :(

[Sam]

Yeah because I had to call Willie so he could help me set up the Skype. :(

[lunlun]

i dont know what wfyb radio means

[MetalMilitia]

fuck you, bitch!

[lunlun]

just because YOU offer your asshole to everbody I dont

anyway
whos the moderator of wfyb?

[executioneer]

lol he was not offering a insult he was explaining

W
F*ck
You
B*tch

[MetalMilitia]

well a little of both actually.

[lunlun]

oops

so whos the mod

[Esuohlim]

Why, Sir Charles Nelson Riley of course!

http://static.flickr.com/9/15487685_6f2de338af_m.jpg

[Matt Harty]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. Something about wizards. =[

[Jixby Phillips]

I host the station, I actually bought a new computer for it

Any questiosn or comments please email me by responding tot his thread

[Esuohlim]

Can you make downloadable versions of shows once they become old?

[GADZOOKS]

The shows are big time filesize and Jixby simply doesn't have the bandwith to host them all.

Right now we are still moving material onto the new computers, what you hear on a loop is basically everything we made in the month and a half WFYB was up.

Just record it if you want a personal copy, I don't see why you would.

[Esuohlim]

Well Riddles for some reason my media players can't support the file and I'm not computer savvy enough to know what is the deal so I just thought I'd suggest pal.

[executioneer]

if you have got windows media player or winamp blocked to internet access in whatever firewall you have got you won't be able to get to it that's what my problem was :(

[executioneer]

lol or you guys could start selling cds of like a bunch of shows on .mp3 for 5 bucks idk

[Jixby Phillips]

I was thinking of selling CDs of it when it looked like it was KAPUT for good

yeah basically i took everything we recorded, including dumb little bits that weren't meant to be aired on their own (me testing my microphone, sketches mark made, other clips like that) and a bunch of songs. So if you listened to it all day you'd probably hear everything twice

[GADZOOKS]

Milhouse get a skype account (since you can't get AIM) and I'll send you whatever you want.

[Jixby Phillips]

SOON! (when the file transfer is done) i'm going to have some FRESH MATERIAL for the airwaves, which i will repeat all night so you get a chance to listen to it. A brand new show from mark and jixby i think you'll like it !

[Jixby Phillips]

Okay maybe tommorow night

[Chojin]

You dudes need to compress your audio :< (not in the filesize compression way, dynamic range compression) ;< I can't hear a damn thing anyone is saying half the time nad the other half you're clipping the shit out of me ;<

[Jixby Phillips]

i have no idea what any of that means, but I'm guessing the reason it sounded bad was because I had an awful soundcard. I just heard about 6 minutes of a recent show we did after i bought a better soundcard and it sounded way better.

WFYB is gonna take a break for the night as i let my computer cool the f*ck down. I'll start it over when i wake up and hopefully i'll have some new material soon.

[Chojin]

It's probably also the microphone you're using.

Audio compression at radio settings basically compresses complex waveforms (the richter scale squiggles) into blocks, rounding off the highs and the lows. Then, volume is added. This results in the loud shit getting quieter and the soft shit getting louder until pretty much everything is the same volume. Radio in particular does this to an extreme level because their signal pushes further the louder it is, so a compression ratio of 100:1 is not uncommon.

[Dole]

But beware of TRANSIENT PEAKS! For there lies the dark path.

[Jixby Phillips]

A lot of that is still totally going over my head but hey thats okay i guess you can't be a brainiac in every catagory right haha

before we did a lot of this, we sat down and did a bunch of soundtests. Based on our basic knowlege of our computer's volume controls, we discovered that we had to comprimise between my sounding extremely (and distractingly) loud and somewhat clear and my sounding at the right volume level but be overcome by static. So we split the difference. For our first episode (the one where we all recorded our parts seperately and put them together) I actually had to wait till my parents were gone and use my mothers computer because she had a better sound card. It's not the microphone, because I went through like 5 different mikes thinking it was the microphone.

Everything you're hearing was recorded probably a long long time ago. There are a few newer thigns, but all the shows and whatnot we recorded in AUGUST. Since then I got a new soundcard and it doesn't have the problems my old one did. The weird drop-outs in my voice no longer happen, but I think that was a skype problem.

[Chojin]

if you give me one of your radio shows I can run it through a compressor and show you the difference :o

[Jixby Phillips]

sure!

I'm gonna put them all in a torrent for myspleen but if you don't want them all I guess I can send one of them over aim

[Chojin]

Torrents tend to rape my internet to hell and back so if you could send them through other means I'd appreciate it

[george]

i can not wait to listen, sometime when i am not at the library :(

i wish fartin mowler really was dead.

[Jixby Phillips]

WFYB is back on yo, enjoy!

[GADZOOKS]

Is there anyway I can compress it using Cool Edit Pro?

[george]

is your message board still around jixby? i really used to like that place.

[Chojin]

i don't know cool edit pro :<

[GADZOOKS]

well how would you do it :(

[Chojin]

Set the threshold down pretty low and crank the ratio way up. Basically anything louder than the threshold will be compressed, so just set the threshold to above the noise floor (in your case, static) and ram it home.

[Pram Maven]

well how would you do it :(

I believe this is in my field of expertise, being that pretty much all I do these days is make music and work at a job I hate. (You can make fun of the job later). I've actually been offered work because of this setup, and I'm doing voices and music professionally for several films.

First, you want the sound as dynamically compressed to begin with, as you can get it. To do this, a simple guitar multi FX pedal

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=guitar%20FX%20pedal&sa=N&tab=wi

will work. These are in the neighborhood of just under $100USD and they work GREAT for playing/singing/podcasting through, into a dedicated sound card.

The SoundBlaster Live

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=soundblaster+live

is the one I just bought, and it has noise cancellation features built right into the hardware as software, I think. I don't know quite how that part works, but it does what it's supposed to.

The only problem with using a guitar processor, is that there is a certain colorization of sound within its circuitry. To get around this, you will need EQ. A good FX pedal will have EQ, reverb, delay, and just about every other kind of vocal effect you could want.

Now, all of this is fine and dandy, but the sound coming out of the pedal is too weak. SO, you will want to amplifify it:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=headphone+mixer

This will get your signal up to line level.

You will probably want to get a preamp/mixer for your output coming from the computer so that you will be able to hear yourself and put out a strong signal at the same time. Soundcards are tricky with this; believe me, I know. I've been recording computer-based music since 1999.

Again, a note about compression and background noise: instead of a mixer/preamp before the computer, you might want to just go with a compression pedal with the sensitivity level turned down just enough, so that the signal is strong, but the hiss from the compressor is nonexistent. To completely obliterate any noise a few feet away from the microphone, you will want to turn N/R (noise reduction) on the pedal, on. This will make your recordings sound like you're recording in a soundproof booth.

Also, when recording with mics and whatnot, always try to use the LINE IN and not the MIC jack. LINE jacks are more balanced and won't clip as easily, resulting in a cleaner, less-"hot" recording.

Pops and clicks in your speech that are picked up by the mic can be reduced greatly by stretching a nylon stocking (pantyhose) over the microphone. This reduces a lot of sibilants . Another thing that will help is to try to speak towards the mic, but with it about six to eight inches away from your mouth, and at a slight angle upwards, so you're kind of speaking across it.

lastly, the microphone I recommend is the Shure SM-58 dynamic microphone with an on/off switch.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=sm-58

You can technically do all of this with just a cheap microphone and a good sound editing program, but this way, you know exactly what you're getting, at 16 or 24 bits per second, and you can actually HEAR it sound the way it will be recorded.. Another strong point for using the hardware method described above, is that you won't have to do much, if any, mastering in the final mixdown. The most you will have to do is normalize the wave form to get it as loud as possible. The very best sound engineers in the world always mix loud songs quietly, and add the volume at the mastering stage.

Good luck, and I look forward to hearing your broadcasts! :)

[executioneer]

well how would you do it if you didn't have any dollars >:

[Chojin]

Uh dude for $100 you could just get a cheap tube compressor which would be way better than a guitar pedal of all things ;<

Without dollars you'd just do what I suggest and go through free software like Goldwave. This isn't the next Enya CD, it's WFYB radio.

I have a degree in audioworks from a moderately famous trade school in Maryland so you aren't the only one here that knows audio ;< When I first got out I was over-enlightening people like that but working in live sound and just living with it has taught me that there's a time and a place for quality and overcomplicating things.

[GADZOOKS]

I think I got the jist of it, the audio knowlege only goes as far as one or two film classes, and it those I had SM58 micorphones and all the audio equipment was readily available.

I have another question though, this might be more towards a Skype situation, which we use to record. For some reason Luke keeps hearing me or somebody else drop out for 5 seconds now and again. Now I never had this problem with anyone else but it wasn't a soundcard issue because he claimed it happened on both computer.

I think he can better describe it. :(

[Jixby Phillips]

TUNE IN NOW FOR OUR HEATHCLIFF SPECATULAR

yeah, I have this weird 5 second drop-out that happens every few minutes. When you listen to the Heathcliff show, when you hear me scream, thats when I am getting the drop-outs. It wasn't meant to be explained, but thats the reason; to signal to mark that he'd have to repeat himself. I got on my NEW radio computer and the dropouts happened the same way they do on my main computer

[Pram Maven]

Chojin,

That's pretty cool that you went to college for audio. I think it's kind of funny that you learned in two to four years (I'm wild guessing, here) what took me twice as long to pick up on.
(Let the "Nose is just slow" jokes commence).

Jixby,

Hmm, that sounds like a latency issue. I get that a lot when I'm trying to record a stereo mix through the soundcard so that it can pick up whatever sound is playing on a website or whatever. ).

In whatever sound program you use, there should be a "latency" option in the preferences. Adjusting it will get rid of a lot of unwanted weirdness. Failing that, I would just turn the quality of the bitrate conversion in the soundcard prefs down a little and see if that helps. Believe it or not, processing sound is one of the most complicated and CPU-hungry tasks that you can ask your computer to do. Of course, I am not all that sure if your screams are live or pre-recorded and being played back. If they're live, your scream is above clip level. Try backing off from the microphone at any point that you have to be loud. Skype generally doesn't cause dropouts, so I think you could be just overloading the mic. What kind is it, anyway?

Good luck! I heard the Heathcliff show and it was hilarious. You have an oddball voice that reminded me of a friend of mine. He podcasts weekly on Yahoo, though. I think I will recommend Skype to him. If the problem is actually Skype, though, I would just run yahoo voice chat in a private room that is invite-only. My friend doesn't get dropouts in his broadcasts at all, doing it that way.

Thanks!

-Nose

[Chojin]

Degree is the wrong word but I was drunk. It's a certification, and it was a 6-month course. The place is more famous as a studio than a school but they were really improving their program when I took the course. http://www.sheffieldav.com/TRUCREDS.HTM

It's a nice place and their best equipment is in this huge truck. I guess the real money is in live audio recordings ;<

[Pram Maven]

Yeah, I'm sure the bootleggers make bank. ;<

You sure like that emoticon, don't ya. :P

Six months, huh? Then you just leveled my experience in the time it takes a good band to sell out.

*groan*

Epic records is on that site as a client. They're one of the major labels that ruined rock radio. >:

[Matt Harty]

Do you guys talk all day long, or record and play it continous during the day or something?


The Heathcliff bit was lol.

"ok what was that?"

I didn't even notice a dropout.

[Jixby Phillips]

we prerecord and play our shows on loop.

The Heathcliff show is playing on loop with a few songs and short skits. Tommorow I'm gonna put the rest of the shows back up

[Matt Harty]

Oh I only have time to hear short pieces so every time i checked seemed like you'd been talking all day. I'll listen if it's not always the same thing.

[Jixby Phillips]

WFYB is closed for special maitnence! It'll be back soon so hold your cats :lol

[Jixby Phillips]

NEW BLOG (check out my signature) for all special WFYB updates!

We have TWO NEW SHOWS one called JERKS VS JEWS and one with MR ADVENTURE called FANFICTIONS LIVE check it out

[GADZOOKS]

Also if you like to follow along to the fanfiction Mr. Adventure reads in the second half of the show (highly suggested) here is the link.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1937682/1/