Podcast #1 Out

Ξ April 3rd, 2006 | → 1 Comments | ∇ |

30meg, 1hr 03min. 64kbps mp3 stereo.

The podcast can be heard over at http://www.nbs-review.net

I want to thank Hiren and Brett for taking the time out to do this too, nice one guys!

The top 10 bits of advice I can offer:

#1: Don’t wear headphones to listen to this. I sound like I’m breathing down the back of your neck in your left ear. For some reason the mic sounds like it was right under my nose, despite the fact it wasn’t. I seem to have moved the mic at 34 minutes, so it makes it more tolerable, rather than practicing my phone voice to my victims.

#2: Don’t do podcasts at 1am. It’s overwhelmingly hard to focus when you’ve been awake for 18 hours.

#3: Don’t expect too much. Until Brett turns up (18 minutes in) it sounds like just two guys having a chat, minus the pub and the beer.

#4: Podcasts are seriously hard to get right. What you hear is about the most amateur thing you’ll ever have to listen to. I’ve a whole new level of respect for those who can put out podcasts that sound coherent, keep on topic, knowing when to butt in and what to say without going umm and uhhh. We spent literally about four hours going through a dozen pieces of software trying to get one that worked with the sound levels correct. What we got from HotRecorder was the easiest and most compatible with skype, whilst not having everyone who’s calling in sound like they are the other side of a field. Having said that, it was too simple and fairly prone to crashing. That’s why it also sounds like Brett and I are sitting on the left and Hiren on the right due to the way it was recorded.

#5: Hate mail will be posted on here, because at least then that proves we have listeners.

#6: I didn’t cut it much, only trimmed the ends. That’s the good, the bad and the ugly. There’s no intro, no name, problems with software/mic’s/people arriving late. I’m going for the rawness angle to hide my laziness until I find a good sound editing program and work out what we want.

#7: I apologise for my piss poor pronunciations of Japanese game names.

#8: I love you really, Mike, even though I didn’t expect you to turn up.

#9: The topics we ended up talking about (in no particular order and more than once):
AMD’s AM2 versus Intel’s Core

Oblivion, and other games we’re playing or want to play (Okami, Ikagura, Naruto, Freelancer versus EVE online, Streets of Rage and the back catalogue for Revolution, SEGA Chrome Hounds)

PS3, Revolution and the Xbox360: their game play, their prices, their accessibility, their potential success (or lack of) and the relaunch of the 360 in Japan.

Microsoft’s Steve (my kids have no fun) Balmer versus Satoro (dishonour me, and I will tell you to suck my balls) Itawa-san.

#10: I just realised… maybe it’s me that has the weird hands if everyone else likes the PS2 and I like the (small) Xbox controller!?

EDIT: Hirens excuse: I should explain, that my microphone actually broke just before we started, that’s why I sound so bad.