Does anyone have any insight on starting a internet radio station?

I will pass this on to our Random Ass Radio expert, @Blondesjon.

I’ll send it to knowitall for her ideas. She’s in regular radio.

I should really mention that this will be starting as an internet radio station, but again if anyone could let me know how to make it into a ‘actual’ radio station that would be amazing too.

First and foremost get a decent condenser mic. It not just the music that you play but you yourself olks have to hear clearly. I use a fairly modest MXL 990 but it does a great job and I would recommend it to anyone want to record/broadcast their voice for any reason.

The rest is really just personal preference/budgetary. You need at least a pre-amp to run the mic’s signal to the computer (budget) but even a moderately priced mixer is a ton of fun to fuck with and gives you endless editing possibilities.

You also need some decent audio mixing software. A lot of mixers come with their own but I have been using Reaper for a few years now along with an ancient analog mixing board. It’s the most.

@Blondesjon thank you, now as far as actually getting the music online or broadcasting do you know where I would go to start doing that?

I am a podcaster. To accomplish that I only needed to create a website and a proper rss feed to submit to iTunes and allow visitors to download and listen to shows from the site.

I live stream the show on Ustream but if you are talking about a ‘real’ Internet radio station I’m afraid I can only help on the audio quality and processing end.

@Blondesjon Gotcha, and thank you so much,

My pleasure. Good luck. It is a steep learning curve but well worth the effort.

Sorry I know zilch about that end, we’re corporate.

@KNOWITALL Thanks for giving it a shot.