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When Ant and Dec’s 2023 series of Saturday Night Takeaway reached its conclusion in April, the entire crew – along with 200 prize winners – decamped to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, for the live finale. For that, Multicast Audio deployed Cleanfeed to send rehearsal program feeds back UK, keeping remote producers and crew in the know.

Advertising jingles are earworms – we all know that. Think Go Compare, or Just One Cornetto, or the universal clarion call of I’m Lovin’ It from McDonald’s. Cleanfeed has become such a staple that TM Studios says it is one of the ‘most important tools in the studio’ for creativity, speed, collaboration and not being tethered to talent in one location.

The combination of Cleanfeed and Space X’s Starlink satellite internet constellation is redefining live radio by making it easy and cost effective to broadcast high quality, low latency audio from the remotest of locations. This technological marriage was recently put through its paces by kmfm, a radio station network owned by KM Media Group, which operates throughout Kent.

We’ve introduced a new way for guests to connect to your studio with a single sharable link. Closely associated with that, there’s some new and useful studio privacy controls, as well as a way of notifying you when guests join your studio.

Planet Hope, a new 12-part podcast series launched last month by The Times, is one of a number of podcasts produced by Anya Pearce who regularly uses Emmy Award-winning Cleanfeed to record audio remotely.

Audio post-production for most feature films and television shows requires time spent on Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR), even when the cast has moved on to other projects in other locations. However, Lew Goldstein, owner of New York City’s Parabolic, is not concerned because he has access to Emmy Award-winning Cleanfeed – the perfect tool to record high quality audio, in real time, from anyone and from anywhere in the world.

UK-based voice artist and voice director Samantha Boffin is using Cleanfeed for her podcasts and drama productions.

An inspirational self discovery that took one man working in the motor trade, to producing compelling podcasts and making waves in radio. I caught up with Jeremy Chapman from YourVoiceHere, who in course of two years has totally transformed what he works on and the way he works, with the help of Cleanfeed.

File Detective is a useful tool whether you’re faced with a mystery media file, or any other kind of file.

What’s all this fuss about headphones for remote interviews? For true studio quality, Cleanfeed tells you to stop using loudspeakers and use headphones. Other software might tell you to do the same as well. Here’s an explanation of what’s going on and why a pair of wired headphones is a must for quality remote interviews.

Well, this is nice. We’ve been awarded an Emmy® for our work in film and television.

We caught up with Trevor New. A composer, music teacher and violist. He sent in this fantastic exert of himself playing at the Lincoln Center for the Kaufman Music Center, with other performers in their homes. This was all achieved live, using Cleanfeed.

Doing a live broadcast or report from a remote location is fun. Your audience will enjoy a change and it’s a chance to meet them in person

Whether you’re a producer, presenter or engineer, you probably have a bunch of questions if you’ve never done something like this before. Going live, from anywhere remote, can sometimes seem daunting. But with a bit of planning, it can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience.

It’s almost exactly one year ago that Marc (co-founder of Cleanfeed) and I were invited for a thoroughly enjoyable discussion as guests to the Blind Podcasters’ Roundtable. We’ve made a steady stream of updates since then, so let’s follow up where we were then, and now.

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Marcus dePaula. Marcus, from Me Only Louder, has an astonishing career which has contributed extensively to his podcast production company that he runs today. We caught up about his live audio engineering days, his thoughts about the podcasting industry, an insight into his workflow and how he is helping producers all around the world with his new venture; Podcast Creators Lab.

Capital UK voice artist, Howard Ritchie, recently shared his story with me on how Cleanfeed saved him from a catastrophic career disaster, saying: “There are many digital tools I could do without, but not Cleanfeed”.