Equipment in the Podcasting Studio

The podcasting room contains the following equipment:

Pod/vodcasting related:

• Canon HV20 1080p camcorder mounted on a Manfrotto 144 tripod
• Behringer HPS5000 headphones (connected to the Canon camcorder)
• Beachtek DXA-2S XLR to stereo mini (allows the camcorder to record the mics)
• Shure SM93 XLR lapel mic
• Audio Technica P48 XLR condenser mic
• 5 Dayflo EZ Lite 400 Lights
• Behringer Xenyx 1204FX mixing board
• Behringer U-Control UCA-200 stereo RCA to USB converter

Video capturing related:

• JVC AV Selector JX-S700 (allows switching between sources)
• JVC DV/HDD/DVD Recorder SR-DVM700 (allows playback of DV cassettes)
• Sony Blu-Ray Player BDP-S300
• Sony Digital-8 Camcorder DCR-TRV240 (allows playback of Hi8 and Digital8 cassettes)
• Samsung multi-standard VCR (supports NTSC, PAL, SECAM, PAL-N and PAL-M)
• 2 JVC television monitors (to monitor output)
• Yamaha Cassette Deck KX-W592

Computer station:

• AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (6 Cores @ 3.3GHz)
• Gigabyte Motherboard with AMD 890FX Chipset (with SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0)
• 8GB DDR-3 1333MHz RAM
• 1 Western Digital 74GB Raptor HD
• 1 Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green HD
• Blu-Ray Burner
• Radeon 5750 with 1GB RAM Graphics Card
• BlackMagic HDMI Capture Card (allows capturing the uncompressed output of the camcorder)
• 2 22" Dell LCDs
• Edirol MA-15D Speakers
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (CS5.5) Master Collection