32-Bit Float Recording and Why It Is Amazing
Portable digital audio recorders are essential tools for oral historians, filmmakers, journalists, folklorists, documentary and podcast producers, and sound designers, and when recording high-quality professional sounding audio, the capabilities of…
Coming Soon: OHMS, WebVTT, and a Transcript Editor
Several years ago, someone at the Library of Congress asked me why the OHMS application and viewer did not utilize one of the emerging timed-text standards. It was frustrating for…
Announcement: Integrating OHMS and Aviary
If you have yet to hear, we have been completely rewriting the code for OHMS, the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer, and we are incorporating the OHMS Application into the Aviary…
Zoom Podtrak p4 and phone interviews
Zoom has just released the PodTrak P4 ($199), an impressive recorder with the built-in ability to easily conduct and record high quality telephone interviews. As more of our oral history…
Three-Point Lighting for Video Oral History Interviews
For several years, professional video technologies have become increasingly more affordable and accessible. We see more oral history projects utilizing HD (high definition) and 4K video as the primary recording…
Microphones, Oral History, and that “Radio” Sound in the Field: Shotgun Microphones
This is the third post in the series Microphones, Oral History, and that “Radio” Sound in the Field about the microphone options for trying to achieve “broadcast quality” recording when…
Digital Audio Recorders: Zoom H4N Pro
The H4n Pro is an update to the very popular H4n which was a very popular recorder. The primary update to the H4n Pro is the improved preamps resulting the…
Digital Audio Recorder: Sound devices Mixpre-3…OMG
In my mind there were three tiers of portable audio recorders: the low-end (under $400), the mid/high-range professional ( $401-$1,499), and the super premium recorders (more than $1,500). For years,…
Using Jotform for Oral History Deed of Gift Submission
There is a tremendous amount of attention placed on the numerous technical challenges involved when remotely recording oral history interviews; however, the logistical challenges can be of equal importance. One…
USB Microphones: The Bumblebee
As oral history and podcast interviewers around the world look for remote interviewing solutions for conducting oral history interviews during a pandemic, a lot has changed about the way we…
Webinar: Using Theirstory for Remote Oral History Interviewing
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History recently launched a national interviewing project using a new video interviewing platform called TheirStory. This webinar will present how to use TheirStory…
OHMS Updates: Viewer version 3.6.3 / OHMS App version 3.0.1
We have launched a new development cycle for OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) that will have some minor and some major updates coming in the next few months. The first…
Microphones, Oral History, and that “Radio” Sound in the Field: Lavalier or Lapel Microphones
In my earlier post Microphones, Oral History, and that “Radio” Sound in the Field: ENG Microphones I talk about my ongoing quest to achieve broadcast quality recordings out in the…
OHMS and Omeka: The OHMS Plugin Suite
This post is about the Nunn Center’s release of the OHMS plugin suite for Omeka that integrates OHMS (the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) and Omeka in several powerful ways. But…
Microphones, Oral History, and that “Radio Sound” in the Field: ENG Microphones
I have always tried to record oral history interviews in the field that were broadcast quality and sounded like studio recordings. I want to achieve a sound that has minimal…
