ABSTRACT
This chapter covers techniques for in-studio recording for radio and television broadcasting. It reviews the general signal flow and processes within the production room rather than dwell on specific branded pieces of equipment. The chapter examines how a modern station's production room accomplishes its task in common monaural and stereo formats and begins with the notion that station management would like the audience to hear a consistent voice quality. It discusses the headset microphone—an assembly that mates single- or double-muff headphones with a microphone mounted on a small boom with a flexible extension. The chapter also discusses the workflow elements common to all brands of audio workstation software, editing the audio file as a single-track or multitrack project, processing the audio or portions of the audio, mixing the audio elements, and finally exporting the finished audio production. It illustrates the steps to build a simple multitrack production.
