Rants and Raves

General Description of the Site

Rants and Raves is a show made for anyone with an abstract view on life. The things we do and say in our show may be offensive to some viewers. If you take offense to things very easily, this IS NOT a show for you! For the rest of you, go ahead and enjoy our shows.

From podcasting to vidcasting...Rants and Raves does it all. We have skits, documentaries, short films, interviews, prank calls and commentary. We also have a popular repository of funny pictures.

Adam founded Rants and Raves, originally called Real Audio Rants and Raves, on August 23, 1998. A total of over 150 hours of exclusive content has been recorded for these shows. That's 115+ CDs averaging 65 minutes each, 3 VHS tapes, two of which are four hours and one, three hour tape, and countless Hi8 and MiniDV tapes. What started off as a little rant on MIDI files culminated into what it is today (although that's not really saying much.) And we are far from finished.

Schedule

Keynote: Mondays
Video shows: Fridays
Infrequency: Whenever (aka infrequently...get it?)

Note: Shows are only released when available. Day of release subject to change.

Production Equipment

In case you want to make your own show, these are some great items to buy and they are extremely low budget. This is most of the stuff that we use to create Rants and Raves.:

Microphones:

AKG D112 Microphone BUY NOW
Behringer Eurorack MX 1604A Mixer BUY NOW
Electro-Voice Cobalt 4 Microphones
Electro-Voice ND-767A Mic
Guest's main mic: Marshall 603s Microphone BUY NOW
Adam's main mic: Marshall MXL-2001-P Microphone BUY (2003 equivalent) NOW
Shure SM58 Microphone BUY NOW

Monitoring:

AKG K44 Headphones BUY NOW
Sony MDR-7506 Headphones BUY NOW

Video Shows:

Still Picture-taking:

Kodak Easyshare DX4330 Digital Camera
Nikon D50 Digital SLR camera
Nikon N80 Film SLR camera

For those of you where money isn't an issue, I'd recommend the following equipment:

Microphones: Shure Beta 87A, Electro-Voice RE20 or RE27, Shure SM7B, Sennheiser MD421-II, Neumann KMS105, Neumann BCM705, Neumann TLM 103

Digital Cameras: Canon S3 IS, Sony H2, Panasonic TZ and F5

Video Cameras: Canon XL H1, JVC HD100, Panasonic HVX200

Spread the Word

Tell your friends, family, enemies, and poodle about Rants and Raves.

If you have a Podcast/internet show, our promo is available here. Let us know you played it on your show and we'll trade!

If you have a printer, print out our STREET SHEET and show it wherever you go. Bus windows are a good choice.

Write RARShow.com with Wite-Out on your book bag.
Make fliers and "accidentally" drop them all over the place.
Write RARShow.com in school books instead of writing the usual pointless phrase.
Buy us a billboard. We'd really appreciate it.
Put blank jewel cases with RARShow.com inside of them in your local record store's catalogue.
Fake Parking Tickets
Write on roadway signs and money!

Note: We are not encouraging illegal behavior, just suggesting it.

Be creative and get the word out! Send pictures of yourself holding up a Rants and Raves poster in the middle of a busy highway! The riskier the better we always say! We really do appreciate anyone who supports our show by spreading the word!