Podholes #14: The Hosts With the Mosts [38:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (762)

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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