Musings and Mutterings

http://www.technochild.net/main.php?id=1102400105 - Short article on using GarageBand and iTunes to create an MP3 recording. Good starting point but by no means sufficient.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/podcasting.html - Ignore most of this and skip to the bottom about how to publish to iTunes' podcast directory so that you are available for download. Requires that your podcast is available through RSS and is in either AAC or MP3 format.

http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html - How to create an RSS feed on a website using XML. Essentially, this is much like HTML in that pairs of tags are placed in a text document, but saved with an XML extension. Once published, the RSS reader pointed to the file checks it periodically to see if the content has changed since the last update. There is also a short section on using Garageband for recording.

http://theappleblog.com/2005/04/21/usb-microphone-converter/ - A $50(US) game called SingStar features a converter for two audio inputs into a single USB output. It may be possible to isolate the left and right channels of each as separate audio tracks.

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/ -  Griffin Technologies might also provide something that allows multi-line input.


It is also useful to recall that in the early days of radio, conversations were often recorded using two people on either side of a single omni-directional microphone. Both parts were recorded as a single track.

http://podcasting.about.com/od/mostpopularsoftware/ss/gbandtutorial.htm - Tutorial on using Garageband to perform mixing and editing.

http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0822.htm - Contains links to libraries of free sound effects to augment those already available in Garageband.