Check out the NewMediaGear YouTube Channel

You’ll “Like” our FaceBook updates! Click for the latest

The Blue enCORE 200 on-boom at Studio1A.

In Studio1A, we’ve been having a lot of fun lately with Blue microphones. The latest offering from Blue is the enCORE series, featuring 4 models. The most intriguing to me is the 200, which hits a nice balance between performance and price.

What sets the 200 apart from other stage microphones (Blue does list Broadcasting as an application as well)?

This is a dynamic mic that cleverly uses 48VDC phantom power. The 200 has a transformer as well as active electronics needed to boost amplification. This unique design allows for a very low impedance of 25 ohms. A feature of the enCORE 200 is that it tolerates long cable runs better in this configuration. I wasn’t able to test this, since our longest in-studio run is about 75 feet.

The 200 sounds a bit like a hybrid, having punchy mids and plenty of gain (almost condenser-like) while using the Blue aria dynamic element. I think the real beauty of this mic is it’s proximity effect; not allowing things to get boomy, but ultra-smooth.

Physically, the body of the mic extra tough, with a small LED that lets you know 48 volts has arrived. The laser engraved capsule area and large grille ring add to the unique look.

The enCORE 200 is supplied with a carry pouch and mounting clip. As we recorded this show, street prices were about 0USD. Have a listen to the Blue enCORE 200 and let me know what you think?

Be sure to check out NewMediaGear page on Facebook! I’ll be posting there between shows.

Studio1A BlueMax Lighting by full spectrum solutions…

Drop me a line with comments, thoughts and suggestions:
mark at newmediagear dot com

NewMediaGear

Subscribe to the podcast – http://feeds.feedburner.com/BestSellingAudioBooks

1. Kindred in Death: In Death, Book 29 (Unabridged)

Summary: In this novel from number-one New York Times -best-selling author J. D. Robb, the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious 16-year-old daughter, who stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaits them inside. Deena has been brutally murdered in her bedroom, and her body shows signs of trauma that horrify even the toughest of…

Click to hear an audio sample of Kindred in Death: In Death, Book 29 (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged)

Summary: LIMITED-TIME OFFER: The Copper Bracelet is on sale for only .95 till November 24, 2009. A peaceful picnic in the French countryside explodes in violence. A mysterious assassin hisses a deadly threat. And events are set in motion that could propel India and Pakistan down the road to nuclear confrontation. Two years after the events of the Audiobook of the Year – The Chopin Manuscript – former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his Volunteers once again must crack a secreti…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. Ford County: Stories (Unabridged)

Summary: John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill . This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.

Click to hear an audio sample of Ford County: Stories (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

Click to hear an audio sample of True Blue (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Nine Dragons: Harry Bosch, Book 15 (Unabridged)

Summary: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store’s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation–not just of languages but also of the cul…

Click to hear an audio sample of Nine Dragons: Harry Bosch, Book 15 (Unabridged) audiobook…

8. The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (Unabridged)

Summary: 15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller. Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy f…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. Pursuit of Honor: Mitch Rapp Series (Unabridged)

Summary: The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friend…

Click to hear an audio sample of Pursuit of Honor: Mitch Rapp Series (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

Click to hear an audio sample of SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged) audiobook…

12. The Lacuna (Unabridged)

Summary: From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Edgar Hoover, The Lacuna tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations. Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, exotic artist Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lacuna (Unabridged) audiobook…

13. More Information Than You Require (Unabridged)

Summary: Welcome to the paperless (or "audiobook") edition of More Information Than You Require , a further compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE assembled and illumined by John Hodgman, a Famous Minor Television Personality. It contains all of the half-truths, fake trivia, amazing made-up facts, and molemanic lore as the paper edition, narrated here almost entirely by Resident Expert John Hodgman, occasionally interrupted by this veritable extravaganza of illustrious and sometimes presumptuous gues…

Click to hear an audio sample of More Information Than You Require (Unabridged) audiobook…

14. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged)

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…

Click to hear an audio sample of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged) audiobook…

15. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

16. The Scarpetta Factor (Unabridged)

Summary: It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta – despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN – to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Scarpetta Factor (Unabridged) audiobook…

17. An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: Diana Gabaldon’s immensely popular Outlander saga soars to new heights with this seventh novel, which takes listeners on a breathtaking journey to 1777 America. Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But that truth offers little solace, since Jamie realizes he might find himself pointing a weapon directly at his own son – a young officer in the British army. And Jamie isn’t the only one with a torme…

Click to hear an audio sample of An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

18. Too Big to Fail (Unabridged)

Summary: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South K…

Click to hear an audio sample of Too Big to Fail (Unabridged) audiobook…

19. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) audiobook…

20. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged)

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged) audiobook…

Find more best selling audio books at Castlibrary.com

NY Times

Business Week

Publisher’s Weekly

Oprah’s Book Club

Subscribe to the podcast – http://feeds.feedburner.com/BestSellingAudioBooks

This Week’s Best Selling Audio Books – 11-13-2009 is a post from: Digital Podcast

Digital Podcast» Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses.

Click here to get the free report(aff).

Of all the questions I get about podcasting, one question seems to be almost universal. That question is can you make money podcasting? That’s the question people want the know about.

At the last Blogworld conference, I learned that there are people making money. The key is having your own product and using your content to promote your product.

The reason I revisit this, is that I just read a great report by a guy named Gideon Shalwick. I’had never heard of Gideon before, but I saw his report referred to by a number of people I know. So, I signed up and got his report. It’s free, so why not.

What I found was really interesting. Gideon has taken the next step in the business model. Gideon shows how to turn your video podcast into a business.

He combines YouTube, a video blog, an email list and a product into a business model. He calls the process Rapid Video Blogging. And he shows you how to do it in his free report.

The report is 95 pages long and covers a lot of material.

The report shows you how to

• Select a niche to build your product
• Create high quality videos
• Connect YouTube, your blog and email
• And how to monetize the setup

And if you want more, he’s offering a coaching class to help you turn your podcast into a business.

I highly recommend getting the free report, even if you just want to be more successful in growing and engaging your audience. The report has lots of good ideas for every video podcaster, and I’m sure the same ideas apply to people doing audio too. Just bypass the hype and dig out what helps you.

Click here to get the free report(aff).

Rapid Video Blogging – Making Money With Web Video is a post from: Digital Podcast

Digital Podcast» Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses.

Check out the NewMediaGear YouTube Channel

You’ll “Like” our FaceBook updates! Click for the latest

As promised in the Tube MP audio cast, here is a video showing the device in use.

This time, I utilized a condenser (Blue Mouse). As expected, the 20db pad (and phantom power) came in handy. The audio-only program was recorded with our Electro-Voice RE-27ND dynamic.

Hope you enjoy a look. There’s a lot of value in this sub-0 box.

The Studio V3 Tube MP at BSW.

Be sure to check out NewMediaGear page on Facebook! I’ll be posting there between shows.

Studio1A BlueMax Lighting by full spectrum solutions…

Drop me a line with comments, thoughts and suggestions:
mark at newmediagear dot com

NewMediaGear

I’ve thought a little bit about what I want and I think the basic requirements are:

• Remove duplicate songs
• Fix misspelled song titles, artist names
• Find missing titles, genres, artist info and attach it to each song
• Find missing artwork and attach it to each song
• Do all the above really well and automatically

Looking around on the Google I’ve found a couple of candidates: Tidysongs and TuneUp.  Both cost -30, but I’m planning on buying both and having a little shootout to find the best one.

I figure I’ll use a spare hard drive to make a back up of my iTunes collection and run both software packages on the collection to see which is the best music organizer.

If you have suggestions for a music organizer please let me know.

What is the Best Music Organizer? is a post from: Digital Podcast

Digital Podcast» Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses.