MICHAEL W. DEAN

Category: Tools

  • Mic Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2

    Michael W. Dean of the Freedom Feens does a Microphone Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2, comparing ribbon microphones in a side-by-side test with condenser microphones and a Zoom H2, using male and female voices. Note: there is a VERY very slight “ringing” sound in a few spots, it’s not in…

  • FLAC helps editing across the miles

    FLAC is a freeware audio codec that allows you to make the file size of a WAV much smaller with NO loss of quality. This makes it easier to send huge files over the Internet to collaborate, outsource, or Feensource editing. When Neema Vedadi and I edit our Freedom Feens podcast, it presents unique challenges.…

  • Getting better sound out of a Zoom H2 (or any recording device or microphone)

    The Zoom H2 handy recorder is an amazing recording device. As are the other Zoom devices that have come out, the Zoom H4, Zoom H4n, the Zoom Q3HD. All are what I call (and coined the phrase for, in 2008) the “Studio on a stick.” I use a Zoom H2 on a gooseneck stand to…

  • VaporSmiths Electronic Cigarettes YouTube Video Review Contest

    I’ve been helping design the new blog for VaporSmiths electronic cigarettes. (Who sponsor the Freedom Feens podcast.) They’re having a great video contest. Check it out and win cool stuff, here:   VaporSmiths Electronic Cigarettes YouTube Video Review Contest

  • Don’t Let PayPal Freeze Your Funds

    PayPal, as useful as it is, has a nasty habit of freezing funds of people who seek donations for a worthy project but don’t have a government permission slip to do so. There have been several high-profile examples lately of PayPal freezing the donations of everything from buying toys for sick kids to protecting the…