Alrewas Radio Film?

With all this modernisation to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook that seems to be going on, not to even mention Instagram and Vine and all of this, I am thinking about making an Alrewas Radio Behind The Scenes type film at the Alrewas Canal And Music Festival.

This will hopefully include some of the stuff that we do, filmed from our perspective. I know that Jim and Pete Ralley are hopefully going to make a video too, but I want this one to be a bit vloggy and a bit rough around the edges, for us to be able to tell you about how we do things. 

If you think this is a good idea, then please tweet us @AlrewasRadio or comment on this post with anything you would like to see in the video, to give us some ideas of what you guys want to see as well as what we want to show you!

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Alrewas Radio Update 21/7/13

So it has been 2 days since our last catch up, and since then, well not too much has happened. Apart from a very own Dan Ruttley came back from swanning around on holiday in Sicily to join us for Alrewas Radio!

Also, there was so very special advertising done at the Alrewas Show yesterday: Lucy The Moggy Minor became The Alrewas Radio Car, a proud advertisement in the vintage classics parade and a picture to hopefully be put into the Lichfield Mercury this week as advertising!

Here is a  picture of me and my sister posing with here next to the ring:

In addition to this you can just about make out the new #AlrewasRadio fashion that I am wearing, The Alrewas Radio T-Shirt, prepped and ready to go for this coming wednesday.

So on that note, make sure you are there, listening, and actively supporting your favourite local radio station this week, as we go live again for the first time again this year. This is something that we are all really excited about and I hope that it goes really well!

Still there is so much to do though, so I better get cracking.

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Radio Fever

The first thing anybody will know about me, is that I am a massive nerd. No matter how much I try and disguise this by wearing my sunglasses on my head and buying clothes that are vaguely in fashion, I have to confess, I am the a massive geek. This I think is really quantified and solidified when it comes to technology. Not only do I have to be able to talk fluently about anything and everything to do with technology, that has involved hours and days of me sat, reading through the entire wikipedia website to learn about how a computer works and what all the funny little cables do, I also get far to excited about it when it comes to new gadgets. The perfect example of this is when we run Alrewas Radio. I spend hours and hours of my life just looking through websites at all the different kit, miss, mixers, software and broadcasting hosting packages to find out about them all and what all the features of the are and do.

There is something about the radio kit which fills and little hole in my heart with liquid honey and boyish excitement. This is very hard for me to portray to the regular listener, because it is so weird, but there we are. This is something which I am very proud of, mainly because I get really excited about it, and the circle repeats…

Anyway, I really want to tell you about what I have found out, in the name of Alrewas Radio. I have been speaking to a few people about upgrading the microphones that we use here at Radio Towers, as we currently only have 1. We would quite like 2, however that would require us to have the inputs via a mixer board, so we could use more than one microphone. Keep up with the thought processes… If we are expanding our inputs to 2, it seems sensible to try and get as many inputs as possible so that we can have plenty of inputs from guitars and other live musician type things, because we would love to get some awesome live music here on the Radio.

So I have been looking at a Behringer XENYX 1204 USB Mixer, which has all the FX sliders and controllers, along with 12 inputs, 4 of which are for microphones and then the other 8 are for things like guitars. The thought process behind this £160 bit of kit is that it will really allow us to be able to expand the Radio, maybe be able to mic up a whole band to play some awesome music live and local. This is something which excites me.

The next port of call after this is decided then is the microphones. Now originally I was thinking about a £120 condenser microphone, which is at an intermediate level, not the most basic by any stretch of the imagination. This was a thought that went along the lines of price is quality, however after talking to people about this, they have all advised me that unless we are in a completely soundproof professional studio, which would be lovely but is a million miles away yet, the difference between a £60 and a £100 condenser mic is pretty much non-existent. The very fact that it is a condenser microphone, means that the frequencies are much flatter and therefore beautifully realistic and crystal clear, which is what we want for radio. So that decided, we have our shopping list…

Apart from one more thing… We are professionals here at Alrewas Radio and we have to look the part as well as sound the part, and that requires some lovely microphone stands, which clip to our desk, and act like a boom scissor arm, which will stretch in front of our face and away from very smoothly, with the proper elastic suspension microphone mounts which allow us to not pick up any vibrations from putting your tea down on the table mid-link.

So our wish list has really shaped up, and I can't wait to be able to buy at least some of this kit! I told you I get excited about nerdy gadgets, well even writing this I am typing slower than I can think the post because I am that excited! Anyway I am off now to try nd find a rich person to buy us some stuff…

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Alrewas Radio 2013 Update

Seeing as the balls have slowly started rolling for Alrewas Radio summer 2013, I thought I might do a quick update to tell you what is happening, when and all the preps for it:

First of all there is the Alrewas Canal and Music Festival which is taking place between the 26th and 28th of July, and Alrewas Radio will be broadcasting alongside that 24th-28th. We are all really excited about that. We are really streamlining our broadcasting style and trying to up the professionalism and overall awesomeness of the radio. 

We are doing all this in the view to expanding the equipment we have here at Alrewas Radio Towers. We are borrowing some microphones and a small mixer to get us through the festival, hopefully trying to record some of the awesome music that will be about that weekend. After this, we hope we will get a small donation from the Barge Fest guys to buy so brand new and exciting kit for us to be able to go forward with and make some awesome podcasts and plenty more radio throughout the year!

As we go off to the big U.N.I in september, me and James will be looking for some folks to look after our baby whilst we are away,and we hope to use a week in august of pure broadcasting for the fun of it to be able to do this! It will be really exciting to pass on our radio knowledge to some more local people who will be able to do the radio hopefully more regularly and really have fun with it!

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