Podholes #12: P.A.P. Smear - PodCulture [29:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (47)

P.A.P. Smear #5: We critique Episode 34 of PodCulture.

Two guys, one girl, and an entire planet of geek TV, video games, and food. Great formula — how do Mike and Steve think they did?

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 Podholes #11: Uniquely Different [32:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (50)

This is not the mixer episode. REPEAT: THIS IS NOT THE MIXER EPISODE.

• No, seriously. This is not the mixer episode!
• Mike: “Think of it as water. Think of it as hooking up a bunch of hoses.”
• Steve’s Rant: When do you not need a mixer? When’s a USB mic or USB headset the right answer?
• Steve: When you get a mixer, things get more complicated.
• Mike: Approach podcasting as any other hobby. There are going to be costs.
• Mike: Podcast Station is radio-style recording and editing for your podcast. Check it out!
• Question from Tee Morris (The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy): What is latency, and are all USB mics uniformly bad about latency?
• Steve doesn’t monitor himself with headphones when he’s recording. Mike thinks this is insane.
• Question from Shaun Farrell (Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing): Any tips for using the Levelator? Will it always raise the level of the background noise?
• (Steve is using the Levelator on Podholes now, so listen and decide for yourself how it sounds.)
• Mike’s now lusting after the Mackie MCU Pro. (Not that anyone can afford it, even him.)

P.A.P. Smear #5: We’ll be critiquing Episode 34 of PodCulture. Listen to the episode, then hear us talk about it next week…

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P.A.P. Smear #4: We critique Episode 16 of Directors Notes.

MarBelle puts a short film into his feed, then he interviews the director. Then we talk about him. It’s turtles all the way down…

(Technical Note: This podcast was level-controlled with The Levelator, as an experiment. Listen yourself and decide whether it works.)

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 Podholes #09: Cat's Out of the Board [32:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (53)

Why is this our second attempt at recording this show? Ask the cat.

• Mike thinks we should do an “Everything about mixers” show soon. (And begins to deliver one here.)
• (Steve wanted to link an article about effects chains that Paul Figgiani once wrote at Podcast Rigs, but that whole site appears to have been replaced by the Podcast Academy and the article’s no longer where Steve thought it was. If we can find it somehow, we’ll bring it up again, or just do our own.)
• Steve’s Rant: “Recompression sickness.” If you’re giving someone a file to go into another podcast, use uncompressed audio, or a higher-than-usual bitrate MP3 at least. Compression problems multiply.
• Question from Simeon Weinraub: Sources of free (or at least cheap) music and effects? (Suggestions: Digital Juice, The Freesound Project, The Podsafe Music Network, IODA Promonet, Magnatune, GarageBand)
• Question from Tim Sullivan (of Solution Selling Today): What’s a de-esser? What’s an exciter? (Note: Steve got the frequency range on de-essers completely wrong. It’s really more like 6500 Hz for men and around 8500 for women.)
• Question from Stephen Atkins: Why do decibels in software go from negative numbers to zero? (…Can you tell we’re sort of bullshitting the answer to this?)

P.A.P. Smear #4: We’ll be critiquing Episode 16 of Directors Notes.

First check out the short film, then listen first, then hear us talk about it next week…

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