B-CONTROL DEEJAY BCD3000 QUICK-START GUIDE

Your first podcast

Start to produce your first podcast by recording your voice, an acoustic instrument or music from your CD player or connected turntable. Your BCD3000 enables you to control the input level and equalize the material you’ve picked up through the microphone, while you monitor the sound with your headphones. Using the included Audacity recording software, you can record, edit and save your recording sessions to your computer’s hard drive. Simply turn up the levels of the Microphone input and Main output of your mixer and click on the record button in the application to create a new track and record everything you pick up with your microphone or from any other sound source. Be sure to adjust the input and output levels accordingly. After you have finished recording, you can edit and then export the recorded material to a common audio format.

Load the audio file into the Kristal Audio Engine application, which enables you to add multiple tracks (please be aware of copyright issues when using material that is not your own) and master these to a single, final stereo track. Since the Kristal Audio Engine software supports VST plug-ins, you are able to use VST effects to process your audio material.

Now that you have a final version you would like to publish as a podcast, go ahead and compress your audio file to the MP3 file format (after you have installed the LAME encoder) or convert your file to an available audio format of your choice. Simply open your audio file in the Audacity software application and use the Export command in the File menu to save your file.

To publish your podcast, make your new file available online. Upload the generated file to a server with the Podifier software, which assists you to create a feed for your file, enabling you to enter such information as your podcast’s URL and title. The feed of your podcast can finally be made accessible to the public by posting it, for example, to an Internet portal. Congratulations, you have just published your very first podcast!

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