Btw. , some people ask how long it takes to create one issue of my "Radio Irrtum!" show. All in all over 30 hours, maybe 40. For being one hour on air.
It takes:
- listening (intensely) to like 50 fresh releases (out of around 100 with my Bandcamp filters plus other sources) per month
- selecting about 20 tracks worthy for the show (with noting run time per track and style)
- see how they fit together, reduce again to around 12
- bringing those 12 tracks into the right order (first pop, then hip-hop/beats, then club/bass, then experimental, then punk/handmade, then something calm)
- see what I can buy, see what I can take from my streaming flat rate
- check what's not on Spotify (I use another service), check what's CC
- writing to the artists, trying to get extra Intel directly from them
- doing recherche about the other artists (most I do not know at all)
- writing the manuscript
- check out what I can play in the background
- record live
- trimming the live recording to exactly 57 min, doing crossfading where necessary, cutting bloopers . Audio Levels of the different music tracks are also a challenge. Doing all this while trying to be sensitive regarding the music I unfortunately have to cut because you know... 57 min
- playing out the master, making an EBU R 128 version for the station and an standard MP3 version for my web archive
- listening to this EBU R 128 final mix , sometimes I still find errors at this point, so back to the mixing desk again
- writing some short introduction text for the station and then: upload to the station.
All this using #Audacity (sample editing), #Ardour (mixing), Renoise (Live Jingles /Station IDs), and ffmpeg/lame for file format converting on Arch Linux, Libre Office for manuscript and spreadsheet (track timing/order planning).
That could be it. But then my station does literally nothing to promote my show, so now I go into like 4-6 hours extra time for promotion which is:
Wiring the multilingual teaser for the Fediverse which seriously takes time (what was the fedi handle of that artist again?).
And then creating the SN teaser video for Radio Irrtum! is taking usually like 2 hours of (phun!) work... for those 10s teaser videos :)
And then uploading the show to my archive web server, writing some stuff about it and checking, if the website still works afterwards ;)
Doing all that is work indeed, on top of my day to day job. But it's fun nevertheless! That is what keeps me going since years now... Plus I'm always happy for the positive response I often receive afterwards. Not that I really "need" it, but boy... it feels so nice. Thank you for that!!!
Money wise I do it for free btw, no income plus ;) , more like 20-40 Eur costs for buying music on Bandcamp per show (which is fine).
#radiomakers #radiomachen #radio
It takes:
- listening (intensely) to like 50 fresh releases (out of around 100 with my Bandcamp filters plus other sources) per month
- selecting about 20 tracks worthy for the show (with noting run time per track and style)
- see how they fit together, reduce again to around 12
- bringing those 12 tracks into the right order (first pop, then hip-hop/beats, then club/bass, then experimental, then punk/handmade, then something calm)
- see what I can buy, see what I can take from my streaming flat rate
- check what's not on Spotify (I use another service), check what's CC
- writing to the artists, trying to get extra Intel directly from them
- doing recherche about the other artists (most I do not know at all)
- writing the manuscript
- check out what I can play in the background
- record live
- trimming the live recording to exactly 57 min, doing crossfading where necessary, cutting bloopers . Audio Levels of the different music tracks are also a challenge. Doing all this while trying to be sensitive regarding the music I unfortunately have to cut because you know... 57 min
- playing out the master, making an EBU R 128 version for the station and an standard MP3 version for my web archive
- listening to this EBU R 128 final mix , sometimes I still find errors at this point, so back to the mixing desk again
- writing some short introduction text for the station and then: upload to the station.
All this using #Audacity (sample editing), #Ardour (mixing), Renoise (Live Jingles /Station IDs), and ffmpeg/lame for file format converting on Arch Linux, Libre Office for manuscript and spreadsheet (track timing/order planning).
That could be it. But then my station does literally nothing to promote my show, so now I go into like 4-6 hours extra time for promotion which is:
Wiring the multilingual teaser for the Fediverse which seriously takes time (what was the fedi handle of that artist again?).
And then creating the SN teaser video for Radio Irrtum! is taking usually like 2 hours of (phun!) work... for those 10s teaser videos :)
And then uploading the show to my archive web server, writing some stuff about it and checking, if the website still works afterwards ;)
Doing all that is work indeed, on top of my day to day job. But it's fun nevertheless! That is what keeps me going since years now... Plus I'm always happy for the positive response I often receive afterwards. Not that I really "need" it, but boy... it feels so nice. Thank you for that!!!
Money wise I do it for free btw, no income plus ;) , more like 20-40 Eur costs for buying music on Bandcamp per show (which is fine).
#radiomakers #radiomachen #radio