I walk through how I use Soundtrack Pro with Bias Soundsoap to repair some podcast audio. The audio came in clipped but not distorted so badly as to be unusable. I originally did it the hard way using Soundtrack Pro's "Clicks and Pops" tool. That took hours. Then I remembered Soundsoap has a feature to remove clicks. We dial down the noise handling part and use just a touch of the click removal and it works well and quickly.

I cleaned up part two from the tape my grandfather made about his childhood and growing up.  I cleaned up noise and levels, otherwise it is unedited.  The recording ends abruptly at the end for some reason.  Perhaps the batteries died as he was speaking at the time and he just never finished it.

I have been wondering how to setup chat room access using an IRC chat client for Mac OS Ken Live instead of using the webpage chat. The web page chat is Adobe flash based and sometimes flakes out.

Here I used the donationware IRC Client for Mac OS X - Colloquy.
http://colloquy.info/

See More to get the key steps to the setup.

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So who says Mac hard drives don't need to be defragmented for performance at least once in a while? This is my 1TB external raid I use for audio/video projects Note the big red region it has yet to defrag.

I wanted to share some diagrams of how I do the workflow for call screening Mac OS Ken Live
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mac-os-ken%3A-warmline-live%21

The call flow shows how a call is handled and routed. The desktop shot is how I organize things on my desktop to keep track and pass information to Ken.

I was doing some experimenting for a friend over the weekend. It is common to run skype on a second computer when podcast recording and take the in/out audio from the second computer, usually a laptop, into a channel on a mixing board. Then you use mix minus to ensure the person on skype can hear everything but themselves. What if you don't have a second computer BUT you do have an iPad? This is still assuming you have a mixing board of course.

Just attach the USB Apple Camera Connector Kit adapter to your iPad.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE&mco=MTcyMTgxODY

Next attach a Griffin iMic to the USB Camera Connector Kit adapter.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic

Hook it into your mixing board via the in and out ports on the iMic to the appropriate jacks on your mixing board. Start Skype and it will send its audio to the iMic appropriately split to the in/out ports of the iMic.

Congrats you are using Skype running on your iPad mixed into your audio for your show.