This document will guide you through a hand full of steps you need to conduct before an Open Science Radio recording. But at first: Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with us - we really appriciate it.
Ideally connect your computer via ethernet in order to have the best connection. WiFi will work, but always runs the risk of dropouts (and has done so quite a few times).
If you can, please always use headphones, otherwise your microphone will also take up the sound from your loudspeakers, resulting in echo or feedback.
Please try to avoid using the built-in microphones of your computer/notebook,as these are usually not too good and will also take up a lot of the room and noises from typing or just touching the desk it stands on.
A headset, combination of microphone and headphones, is a convenient solution. There are a lot of headset often used for VoIP conferences, Skype calls, or delivered with your mobile phone. Not all of them do sound good, so let us know what you have (and sometimes a little test run would also be helpful).
Using a proper microphone will help providing the best audio quality, however not everybvody has one at hand. If you're not sure about your setup, let us know and we'll figure it out together.
We use the open source tool Studio-Link to connect the interview partner. It is available for macOS, GNU/Linux and Windows. This video guides you through the different steps of setting it up.
While is not required it would be great if you could make a local recording. There are numerous solutions.
- On macOS - simply use QuickTime
- On all three platform the open source tool Audacity can be used
You will find a short section about local backup recording in the video we've provided.
After the recording upload the file (e.g. wav or flac) to web-based storage of your choice and make the link accessible to us.