Yeah, it's here. If you're hip to the numbering scheme, you've figured out by now that we recorded this two weeks ago. How embarrassing. I think I should make the point that we weren't originally going to air this one any more than we had planned to air the last one, but what the hell, it's podcasting and part of the appeal is the fact that it's not professionally done, right? If I keep telling myself that, perhaps it will be true. The short story behind this is that I was trying a couple of things, based upon the advice of Hugo Schottman. There were two major problems (If you're looking at doing your own podcast, take notes here), first being my decision to record into Apple Lossless and the second being my taking Hugo's advice about a few filters to apply to the mics. While it actually isn't real obvious in the final product, my experience with ALAC is that it creates way too much latency to work with. It shows up during recording in the form of pops and dropouts and a serious delay in your headphones. Perhaps something with some more ass than my 12 inch PowerBook G4 could deal, but I couldn't. I've got the HD space for AIFF, so I'm going back to that with compression in post. As for the filters I mentioned, the fault, I should point out, is due to my own ignorance about how a compressor and noise gate works. Because of my own ignorance you might notice a bit of clipping when either Freak or I start talking. It's annoying and I'm taking it out until I figure out how to set it up correctly. I also want to apologize for the really annoying bleeps in the last cast. As you may have guessed, Wood and Freak are not our real names and, for the present, we have reason not to use them. So the bleeps. I just didn't know how fucking annoying they were when I did the edit. Sorry. In this cast you'll hear us talking about a lot of the same shit we talked about last time (no, it's not just you). This time around, we also hit on Las Vegas real estate prices, tell some kid friendly jokes, talk about podcasting and disruptive technologies, how sexy Dawn Micelli's voice is and what it was like for Freak to grow up with his brother, who has Tourette's. And, as a special bonus, if you listen closely you can hear my son Fletcher in the background. Trust me, those are happy noises. Update 3/25/07: You can download this SINCast directly by clicking on the link below (Mac users ctrl-click, Windows right click and choose "download file" or "save link as..." or something like that) or, better yet, subscribe with your favorite podcasting client or RSS reader with the links on the left.

[ Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:10:54 -0800 ]

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