Any tips

[DJMcD]

I'm about to do my first ever set which is both online and FM radio.
Does anyone have any tips they can give me?

Do you pre-record or mix live? I have the choice...

Cheers,

Ewan

[Not Applicable]

Mix it live.

[DJMcD]

I was thinking exact same thing, is it normal to loop 16 or 32 beats when talking then returning to a mix when you’re finished talking?

[Not Applicable]

Sure. Just find a part of the song with little to no drums and absolutely not over a vocal.

[efinque]

I'm mildly curious as to what kind of technology you're using for the broadcast.. FM radio? I've been looking at some antennas and DIY kits for a transmitter and sourced a few potential candidates. I was thinking something like 500W for starters which would cover roughly a 10km radius according to the specs (I used to deal with a lot of radio stuff in the military)

But sorry for the off-topic.. I can't really give any helpful advice, except that video streaming has become very popular these days which in turn calls for mixing live, although it uses more bandwidth. If you have a webcam I wouldn't recommend staring into it during the broadcast. For online stuff a chat room is always a bonus but the services that provide such luxury can be either dodgy or unprofessional, unless you're really savvy with HTML and set up an Apache server or something.

Stickam was a very good service with the chat rooms and broadcast archiving back in the day, now there's Youtube which has pretty much the same feature set. I have no experience using Facebook Live but I've seen some people use it. Although I believe you have the technical stuff sorted out already.

EDIT : as for the staring bit I've seen they use a tennis ball when shooting movie scenes to keep the actor/actress focused on something other than the camera or the set which could work when doing a live stream.

EDIT 2 : and I do know that radio/telecommunication networks are very strictly regulated.. one would need training and a license, even for something as simple as maritime VHF but you probably have that sorted out too.

[Not Applicable]

I use OBS to broadcast via Chew.tv for all my shows.

[efinque]

I use OBS to broadcast via Chew.tv for all my shows.

OBS is a fine piece of software... much better than the old method of streaming to a server using Adobe Flash Media Encoder which had a Java based GUI (edit : I think it still has) to my understanding. Very cumbersome on older machines (and especially on a laptop) but I guess it was the only way to stream back then, Youtube still supports it though. There was a way to stream directly to Stickam without the damn encoder but it had more controls over what you were doing.

EDIT : and OBS lets you tailor the stream with multiple scenes, texts and whatnot..

[Not Applicable]

OBS is a fine piece of software... OBS lets you tailor the stream with multiple scenes, texts and whatnot..

Yea, I have two cameras and an audio input. Before I found OBS, I was recording 2 cams separately and audio as well. The audio quality is good enough for streaming, but I have to put the quality audio so I can post on my site.

[efinque]

Yea, I have two cameras and an audio input. Before I found OBS, I was recording 2 cams separately and audio as well. The audio quality is good enough for streaming, but I have to put the quality audio so I can post on my site.

I've been lately thinking of getting a server for the purpose of streaming.. I think it wouldn't be more than an out-file from OBS and a few lines of HTML code, the problem comes with the bandwidth really.

EDIT : and I would be tempted to host all kinds of other stuff on it

[light-o-matic]

I've been wanting to try OBS.. I downloaded the Windows installer the other day and got a virus warning from Windows defender.. so of course I didn't run the installer until I can look into it. Anyone else have this experience?