brainwagon

My criticisms don’t just extend to others. Here’s my own attempt at self-flagellation today.

I fired up my ipod this morning and was listening to my latest show as I came in. I like to do this on occasion, mainly to monitor the technical quality as well as whether I sound like a complete dolt. I can’t speak to the second issue, but bleh. My podcast had some low amplitude noise which polluted the background. As the mp3 encoder shifted from frame to frame, the noise jumps in amplitude in a really annoying way. Yuck.

Two questions for myself:

1. Why am I not hearing this when I do my post recording checks? (Likely answer: really cheap headset with poor response)
2. Was it always this bad? A quick scan back through my recent episodes reveal that this one was particularly bad, but noisy recordings have gone out for the last three or four. Likely cause: change in my sound recording setup, mixer levels are perhaps too high.

Apologies for murdering your ears. I’ll have to work on getting this sorted out before my next podcast.