Comments on: Sound Studio 3 (mini-review)

By: Sam downie

Sam downie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:25:14 +0000

I use sound studio on all of my podcasts and edits of interviews for my radio show in the uk. I’ve been using it since version 2.2 and was given a copy of v.3 at macworld 2006 by the creator of sound studio, as I’m a well known presenter!

Want more info? Visit me online at: http://www.dsoundz.co.uk

Xlolx

By: Velanche

Velanche — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:49:06 +0000

Hey Veronica:
I’ve used Sound Studio since version 2.2 when it was a Felt Tip before Freeverse bought it. I think it’s been about four years that I’ve been using it to edit my weekly radio show to prep it into a podcast. It’s simple and intuitive, and handles a 2-hour broadcast nicely.

The only thing I’d wish for would be if it can display multitracks ala Cood Edit/Audition. Otherwise, I’ve been happy with the foundation and its enhancements.

Best of luck with it!
V.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:55:33 +0000

Ok no one has asked yet, so what is a good software for Windows when it comes to podcasting for both video and audio and especially multi-track on the audio?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:09:05 +0000

Hi V!!

After 8 years of not touching a recording interface I got an M-Audio Fast Track Pro, i think it’s one of the best interfaces available por the buck.

back in the days of my amateur sound engineer life I used to use sonicfoundrys Soundforge and Vegas, now i found out that Sony bought Sonicfoudry, yet Vegas 8 Still does the job elegantly, i know that it´s more complex to use but i like to think of it as the poors protools =)

For Mics I suggest Beta87 and KSM27, both are more expensive condenser mics but i think you lovely voice deserves it.

Cheers!

Alex

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:26 +0000

Gee, smart yet perpetually stoned. That sounds like me.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:08:30 +0000

Hey V, nice post. It’s cool to know that such professional sounding results can be gotten with relatively modest hardware.

I documented my own music setup at Flickr. I don’t do much (well, any) vocal recording but my setup is similar. The big difference is Ableton Live. It’s a perfect tool for me with it’s audio, midi, virtual instruments and effects, and great UI. Alas, it is $400 or so. Also, tablet PCs make Ableton on Windows quite compelling!

I would personally be interested in what you use for the Mahalo Daily videos. I would guess Final Cut Pro, or Premiere.

Peace.

By: Starman

Starman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:56:18 +0000

Anything is better than Audacity. Every time I go back to it I want to pull my hair out.

I’ll give SS a try, V. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:05:05 +0000

Along the same lines, Cubase LE is a “light” (lite?) version of the $800 pro app Cubase. LE is a freebie; it ships with a lot of semi-pro audio hardware, and it totally rocks. You can do MIDI sequencing, work with loops, as well as complete audio editing. Did I mention “free?”

By: pianoplayer88key

pianoplayer88key — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:43:10 +0000

Ok… so… SS is $79.99. Audacity is $0.

Is Sound Studio 79.99/0 times better than Audacity?

By: Tomas

Tomas — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:15:59 +0000

@Chris ugh… lol… ya my bad

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:25:38 +0000

Hey gr8 article, I’m going to check out Sound Studio with my Samson USB mic. There is like a 50ms real-time sound delay when recording with audacity on the mac—could be USB 1 but I really want to improve the latency in real time sound—

By: Veronica

Veronica — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:16:57 +0000

@Eric - It was cheaper

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:00:51 +0000

I’m curious as to why you prefer the 57 over the 58.

There are so few people I know in the music world who sing into 57’s and most of them have VERY deep voices. Are you doing it to add bottom end?

By: Thaed

Thaed — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:53:48 +0000

Audacity does it for me for all three of my shows. Someday I want to move up to generating multi-track recordings. At that point, I’ll have to give your suggestion a try.

Video is killing the internet radio-star anyway, however.

By: Rob Shelby

Rob Shelby — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:03:04 +0000

For $40 you can’t beat Amadeus Pro.
http://www.hairersoft.com/AmadeusPro/AmadeusPro.html

It’s probably not the best for PodCasters that aren’t very tech savvy. But it supports MANY formats, batch processing, multi-track, and VST.

Also, I will ALWAYS love it because I was able to save someone’s Pro Tools session that was copied from a MacOS9.2 HFS+ drive to a FAT drive. I was able to open up raw files and tell them that they were 24b/48k wavs… Being the hero is the awesomest.

By: Grizz

Grizz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:58:52 +0000

I’m still good using Cool Edit 2.

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By: Alexandre Zee

Alexandre Zee — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:49:27 +0000

Hey Veronica!
Sound Studio 3 is very very good, best for simple editions, cut , volume and equa adjusts.
Thanks for good post!
ps.: version 3, works 100% on Leopard.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:31:26 +0000

Tomas - read the first sentence of the article.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:44:08 +0000

Another very similar app is Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

and it is for free!