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Rice English professor Tomás Q. Morín was interviewed about his most recent publication Machete by Arts & Letters Radio in the DMC Audio Studio on Nov. 18, 2021. The podcast episode Machete was Published on January 27, 2023 and is available to hear at  https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/show/arts-letters/2023-01-27/machete.

Arts & Letters Radio is located in Little Rock, AR, and is a regional NPR affiliate program that airs in the mid south.  Its podcast has a large national following. They have a total of about 500,000 listens a year. DMC was thrilled to facilitate the interview. When scheduling the interview, we mentioned that a Rice English professor was ever interviewed by BBC in 2018 and the interview was recorded in the DMC Audio Studio, Mary Ellen Kubit, the Producer at Arts & Letters Radio commented, “BBC is the industry standard, so we have great confidence on Rice’s end. ”

The interview was conducted remotely. The host at Arts & Letters Radio just needs the DMC to record the subject side of the interview . The host will record their side of the interview and they will do a tape sync.

The host called the professor over his cellphone. To have a clean audio recording of Prof. Morín’s answers, no bleeding from the host’s end, below is our settings.

• The subject wears a headphone. In this case, the professor just wore his wireless earbud.
• The DMC’s Zoom H4n audio recorder was used as the primary recording device, while GarageBand was used as a backup recording. (Our feedback from BBC is that the recording with Zoom H4N sounds more authentic, while the recording with Audacity sounds more robotic. BBC chose to use the version recorded with Zoom H4N. In the end, we sent both recordings to Arts & Letters Radio. Both are clear and clean. Not sure which one they chose to use in their production.)
  • Below are two snippets of the recording from Zoom H4N
    • reading of Machete
    • comments of Machete
  • Below are two snippets of the recording from GarageBand
    • reading of Machete
    • comments of Machete
  • Note: the original recording is in .wav format. However, CampusPress doesn’t support .wav file format. We have converted it to .mp3 when posting here.
• The Zoom H4n recorder was put on a table top tripod and was positioned about one foot away from the professor. The audio input level was adjusted based on the professor’s regular speaking tone.

To have the host and the professor to see each other during the interview, we also started a Zoom meeting. But the Zoom meeting was only used for the video. On our end, the audio for the Zoom meeting was disconnected.