Behringer Podcastudio Quick Start Guide
PODCASTUDIO QUICK-START GUIDE
Welcome to the BEHRINGER PODCASTUDIO
Thank you for purchasing this set of products compiled by BEHRINGER. This
top-notch bundle of hardware and software lets you creatively produce professionalsounding podcasts for the Internet. Move up to the next step in the evolution of
broadcasting, and free yourself and others from the limitations of conventional
mass communication.
Podcasting basics
The following section gives you a quick insight into the terminology being used.
Podcasting is a term derived from combining the two words “iPod” and
“broadcasting” and is defined as the distribution of audio or video files, such as
radio programs or music clips, over the Internet. This is accomplished by using
one of two syndication techniques which allow users to listen and, of late, even
view digital media on such portable media devices as iPod players and laptops.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom are Web content syndication
formats written in XML which provide either podcast content or summaries that
link to content and additional file information.
Podcast is a feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for public access.
Anyone can subscribe to the feed and download the media files. This allows
you to collect programs from a wide range of sources for listening or viewing
media content, either online or offline with your computer or an appropriate
portable device.
Podcatcher refers to a software application that enables the download of
podcasts. Usually, it launches when the computer is started and runs then in
the background, managing feeds that you add manually and downloading each
at a specified interval.
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PODCASTUDIO QUICK-START GUIDE
Step-by-step installation
Now that you know the terminology and have all the gear you will need to
produce high-quality audio podcasts, it’s about time you set up the equipment,
install the software and get started.
1. Connect your new UCA200 USB audio interface to your computer by using
the USB connector.
2. Connect the XENYX 502 analog mixer with the USB audio interface by using
the included RCA cables to join the input of the interface with the mixer’s CD/
Tape output and the CD/Tape input with the output of the interface.
3. Connect your XM8500 microphone to the mixer with the provided XLR cable.
4. Hook up the HPM1000 headphones to the mixer’s Headphone connector.
Should you want to monitor the recording sessions with a pair of loudspeakers,
use the Main output to connect the speakers to the mixer.
After setting up the hardware, you are ready to install the audio software and
podcasting applications provided on the software CD.
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