Last night, as promised, Mike, Skip, and I set out to determine if Riverside FM would solve most if not all of our remote podcasting problems. So what was the verdict?
We mucked about a bit for just under an hour, and the initial experience was a good one though I will confess to several problems, most of them mine. I used a table mic in my kitchen, and I obviously need to practice using one. My mic discipline was not great. I picked up a lot of background noise – most of which I edited out in post-production to save you the pain of listening to it.
- Overall, this is a big leap forward. Better behavior during the recording will eliminate almost all of the post-production work.
- None of the live music I played while recording got picked up, so I added it after, but that looks like a learning curve problem, not a design flaw.
- We need to adjust volume input settings in Riverside (easy to do) – Mr. Rogers sounded good but Skip and I were too loud (fixed post-production)
- We went in with no topics in mind because we were mucking about, but we may have more of a plan in the future.
- The overlapping local audio was also not quite as clean as I hoped for, but that may still be a feature of our inexperience and local issues as it is Riverside. Time will tell.
And just an FYI – this is uploaded under The Real Resistance Podcast on Spreaker and may retain that name but again, no decision. And the reason I called it GrokTALK! 3.14159 is because this is the third iteration of our website podcast, with a few failed reboots leading to today.
So, here’s the beta product of our mucking about. We talked about whether regular people are really waking up. There was some conversation about that COVID thing of which you may have heard. We had a good discussion about this product and our previous experience doing GrokTALK! Live and in person. There was an update on the politics of a certain ski “resort” in New Hampshire and a few other bits.
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