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I’m really pleased with the current batch of projects I’m working on, and thought you might be interested in some of these yourself.

First, as always, I’m neck-deep in producing The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore. This has gained a lot of prestige in the last few years. The show airs on Mondays and Thursdays and is currently featuring interviews with various low-carb celebrities and physicians. [I also did the theme customization for this site.]

Also, I’m producing the Twin Peas Blog and Podcast for host Kelly Damron. Kelly shares knowledge and experience dealing with issues of infertility, premature birth and parenting twins. I’m very proud of this one- it has tons of original music (by me) and the overall effect is similar to “This American Life”. [Another customized theme, here.]

Recently I completed a blog setup for the amazing Phoenix Gilman, author of Diet Failure: The Naked Truth.

Hmm, a common theme - everyone I’ve worked with lately is a published author!

Anyway, please check these out and, as always, please consider giving the shows a review in the iTunes store!

Links:

Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show Site and iTunes
The Twin Peas Pod site and iTunes
Diet Failure: The Naked Truth Blog
My company, Disc of Light Media and Consulting

Whaddaya think of them apples? Let me know in the comment section below!

Recently I’ve been thinking about the fact that since I’m billing myself as “The Podcast Doctor™” why don’t I currently have an active podcast of my own?

I’ve been so busy helping my Disc of Light Media clients with their shows that I kind of let that slip through the cracks! Oops!

So I’ve decided to test the waters by re-launching the Health Hacks Podcast — with a few changes.

The premiere episode of the relaunch can be listened to at Health-Hack.com (coming soon to an iTunes near you!) or by subscribing to the RSS feed.

In this relaunch premiere, I’m interviewing blogger and author Kelly Damron. Kelly recently wrote Tiny Toes: A Couple’s Journey Through Infertility, Prematurity, and Depression and writes the Twin Peas blog as well.

Please check out the show and Kelly’s blog to learn about the great work she’s doing to educate people about the practicalities and stigmas of issues like IVF, lactation difficulty, prematurity and post-partum depression!

This ain’t a how-to. I wish I had this skill down to a set of easily reproducible steps, but sadly every time it comes up, the solution is different.

One of my clients, Jimmy Moore of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show, scored an interview with Dr. Dean Ornish. The interview was a year ago, so I hadn’t yet drilled “best practices” into his head, plus he intended the interview to be for his blog, as the show hadn’t started yet.

Suffice it to say, the interview sounds like it was recorded via tin cans and twine to a wax cylinder (actually a microphone on a telephone). And it is over seventy minutes of raw audio. My job: distill it down to two 25-minute episodes and clean it up.

The stakes are high: a low-carb personality interviewing the king of low-fat diets is bound to be a ratings topper, but OUCH! what a job.

If you find yourself in this kind of situation (and you’ve already decided not to retain my services to fix this for you) here’s one tip:

Use a 30 band graphic EQ plugin in your editor (I use Audacity for editing and Garage Band for final production in these cases). If you start completely dropping frequencies from the low end, you may find that you can subtract out the lowest five or so sliders without changing the sound, while making the signal less “hot”. This will likely allow you to boost your gain without worsening the distortion already present.

After this, you will still have your work cut out for you, but it may be just what you need to start the salvage operation! Just remember, you can’t magically perfect a bad recording after the fact, but this tip might just get you started!

Check it out at: The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.

… but hey, that doesn’t mean I’m not ready and eager for any leads that come my way! I’m toiling away at some labor-intensive tasks at the moment: I have CD orders to fill, I’m hand-coding (yes, people still do that!) a new Disc of Light Publishing Group corporate web site and my good friend Becky McCray has asked me to submit a case study on going solo for her blog. Link to follow.

In the mean time, while you may not see me on Twittter as much as I’d like, I’m still available via phone and email!