This video will talk about the Behringer B-1 Microphone also with an introduction to condenser microphones. The Behringer B-1 is the ultimate home radio/podcasting microphone with higher , more crisp quality than your standard home pc microphone which has distorted unclear sound quality. This video should guide you on condenser microphones and point you in the right direction , if you are new to on-line radio/podcasting equipment or just looking for something new this video from Wavestreaming should help.

	Behringer B1 Condenser Mic Professional 1″ large-diaphragm condenser microphone for unsurpassed audio quality. Ideal as main and support microphone for studio and live applications. Pressure gradient transducer with shock-mounted gold-sputtered single-diaphragm capsule. Amazon UK – £69.00 Amazon USA – $96.92
	M-Audio Microphone Preamp   2 independent XLR Separate gain controls XLR phantom power Amazon UK -£90.00 Amazon USA- $49.99
	Samson USB Studio Mic Smooth, flat frequency response Plug in and start recording. No extra gear needed! 16-Bit resolution, 44.1-48kHz sampling Large 19mm diaphragm Amazon UK – £57.00 Amazon USA- $74.95

There are many myths and rumors that you may have heard, or concerns you may have about starting an internet radio station. These are the 3 biggest questions, we see coming up time and time again on our pre-sales desk. These are as follows:

1. 1. Do I need a whole bunch of expensive studio equipment to start webcasting?
2. 2. How about licensing? Are licenses expensive?
3. 3. Finally, do I need to be some kind of web genius in order to setup a website?

If these concerns are preventing you from starting an internet radio station, then don’t let them! We’ve put together a little video to answer your questions and address these myths.

For more information about creating your own radio station online, you can visit our sister site here.

Our relocation will involve moving our offices to a larger space which will allow our business to expand and continue to improve. We have chosen a city centre based location, which is right in the heart of Manchester’s Millennium Quarter. We will be based in Pleer House, a character building which has been recently refurbished to provide cutting edge office space. It is surrounded by some of Manchesters recent regeneration projects, including Urbis, Printworks, Manchester Cathedral, The Triangle and Selfridges.

Pleer House

Client Manager & Founder of Wavestreaming, James Mulvany said: “I’m pleased that we’ve been able to grow steadily over the past few years and we will continue to do so from our new location in Manchester. Being based in a major UK city will allow us to thrive, Manchester is an exciting place to work and provides an exciting, diverse and cultured environment. It will also let us connect more easily with our clients and provides the added benefit of direct transport links to other UK cities, including London.”

The move will not impact on customers services’ in any way, as all of our servers are hosted remotely in professional datacentre environments.

To celebrate our 6th birthday we’re putting together a video series – for the internet radio community which aims to address as many of the problems facing modern internet broadcasters as possible.

If you want to know how to get ahead of your competition, maybe learn something new about how to setup software or hardware – then just ask! We’re open to all areas of internet radio – including technical stuff and promotion!

Find out more on our website!

www.wavestreaming.com/articles/ask-the-experts.php

Speak soon!

James
Wavestreaming

All of these mobile devices support MP3 streaming and you can easily listen to a SHOUTcast station on them using their built in media players, without downloading any additional apps or plugins.

We have launched a service to make it easy for our customers (and indeed anyone with a SHOUTcast server) to begin broadcasting to mobile devices such as iPhones and Blackberries. We’ll also be adding in more popular devices in the future.

Here is a sneak preview!

You can sign up for free on our portal site;
http://www.radiotuner.mobi

Or test drive our demo stream at
http://www.radiotuner.mobi/birdsongradio

We hope you enjoy the new product!

Our sales phone line will be unavailable during this time. However, technical support and sales will continue to operate on reduced hours throughout the Christmas period via email. This simply means that if your query isn’t urgent, we may take a little longer than usual to respond.

If you need to contact us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via our ticket desk – you can do this via the contact form on the Wavestreaming site.

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2010!

The 2 formats have their advantages and disadvantages, namely aacPlus – which was introduced only a few years ago and offers excellent quality audio at much lower bitrates. Coding Technologies who produced the format claim that you can produce CD stereo quality using aacPlus at only 48kbps, whereas the MP3 equivalent would be 128kbps, this is great to lower bandwidth costs for radio stations and also great for listeners without high-speed broadband connections (which, lets face it – are few and far between in 2009).

MP3 has been around for years and is a very mature and hugely widespread format, the ideal thing about streaming in MP3 is that the support of it is native to all operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX and all the various types of Linux, Unix, BSD etc.

The Wavestreaming SHOUTcast Flash Player also supports MP3, but does not yet allow aacPlus to be streamed via SHOUTcast.

So the decision is still yours, but at Wavestreaming, we always recommend good old 128kbps MP3 streaming to customers. We have some SHOUTcast Deals to help lower the cost of this if you run a smaller radio stations and keep you on budget. MP3 streaming will guarantee that you will be accessible to many more listeners than aacPlus and it also allows you to take advantages of Flash streaming on your website. With broadband being so widespread, listening to a 128kbps stream isn’t really a problem for people any more.

Learn How To Start An Internet Radio Station today!