Podholes #17: P.A.P. Smear - Adventures in SciFi Publishing [17:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (214)

P.A.P. Smear #7: We critique Episode 9 of Adventures in SciFi Publishing.

Interviews with science fiction authors and publishers — if only we knew something about that…

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 Podholes #16: The Show Must Go On [35:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (207)

Steve’s sick this time. Will that stop him? No. Will it make him sound like crap? Yes.

• Steve’s recording on his new toy: the Zoom H4 portable recorder.
• Question from Paul Haring: “What’s the best way to mix in bed music? Live or during post?”
• Question from Jill Arroway: “How do you clean up voicemail messages?” (Especially from K7.net.)
• Question from P.G. Holyfield: “Which room should I choose for the best acoustics during recording?”
• Question from Andy Bilodeau: “What effects do you use in your audio software?”
• Question from Bill from MN: “How do you organize your folders?”

P.A.P. Smear #7: We’ll be critiquing Episode 9 of Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing. Listen to the episode, then hear us talk about it next week…

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 Podholes #15: P.A.P. Smear - Submission and Coffee With Dollie Llama [25:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (438)

P.A.P. Smear #6: We critique the February 3, 2007 episode of Submission and Coffee With Dollie Llama.

It’s the audio journal of a BDSM relationship. Obviously this is not a P.A.P. Smear for the kids. (As if any of them ever were.)

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 Podholes #14: The Hosts With the Mosts [38:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (211)

Mike’s back! Steve still manages to talk occasionally. The first two topics killed half an hour, so we run long to cover more questions.

• Talk into the correct end of the microphone.
• Mike corrects Steve’s mixer advice from the last episode:
• Using aux sends for compression doesn’t always work
• You can use buses if your mixer is an expensive one like Mike’s
• The Alesis USB mixer is a problem for wiring in compressors
• Tape outs can work better than main outs because they’re at different voltages
• Mike: PC sound cards can work fine — if they’re the expensive ones.
• Question from Andy (Club of Heads): “What’s the best place to host podcasts?” <-- The question that ate the show. Mike likes Libsyn; Steve is using Dreamhost.
• Question from Clair (Table 9 Studios): “Can you use dynamic mics together with condenser mics?”
• Question from Matt (The Off Topic Podcast): “Noise reduction — friend or foe?”
• Two questions from Greg (The Myth Show):
• “Is there a problem with handcoding your RSS feed?”
• “What are the fair use rules regarding TV and movie clips?”

P.A.P. Smear #6: We’ll be critiquing the February 3rd episode of Submission and Coffee With Dollie Llama. Listen to the episode, then hear us talk about it next week…

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 Podholes #13: My Mixer, My Self [43:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (315)

Mike couldn’t make it this week, so Steve’s stuck all by his lonesome. He gets his revenge by bringing you, in Mike’s absence…

(drum roll)

THE MIXER EPISODE.

It runs a bit long, but Steve covers all the basics of mixers for podcasters: setting levels, hooking up compressors and other devices, and which features (EQ, USB, Firewire, etc.) are generally useful and which ones aren’t.

(Question for the audience: Would an enhanced version of this episode with pictures be useful to anyone? Or is the monologue self-explanatory enough that illustrations wouldn’t add anything? I’m willing to put in the work, but only if it would truly be helpful.)

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