To the kindly podcasting person
May. 22nd, 2010 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prusikDear kindly podcasting person,
When podcasting a conversation between two people, please try harder to ensure that both voices are at the same sound level. That way setting a volume loud enough to hear one person doesn't blast my head off when the other person speaks. Constantly adjusting the volume is cumbersome at best and, at
worst, impossible when the loud guy makes a sub-second interjection. Mastering is a good thing.
(For the record, what I ended up doing is firing up my audio editor and running the podcast through a compressor. No, it's probably not the right solution, but I just wanted to listen to the podcast, not master it. I can do this only because I was listening at my desktop. If I had been listening on my iPod, I would have been really annoyed.)
Oh, because I know a bunch of people who podcast, I should add:
I'm not talking about you. This is a podcast by someone whom I don't know. (And technical issues aside, it's a fine podcast. Once I was no longer distracted by the sound level variations, I could pay attention to the interesting conversation.)
When podcasting a conversation between two people, please try harder to ensure that both voices are at the same sound level. That way setting a volume loud enough to hear one person doesn't blast my head off when the other person speaks. Constantly adjusting the volume is cumbersome at best and, at
worst, impossible when the loud guy makes a sub-second interjection. Mastering is a good thing.
(For the record, what I ended up doing is firing up my audio editor and running the podcast through a compressor. No, it's probably not the right solution, but I just wanted to listen to the podcast, not master it. I can do this only because I was listening at my desktop. If I had been listening on my iPod, I would have been really annoyed.)
Oh, because I know a bunch of people who podcast, I should add:
I'm not talking about you. This is a podcast by someone whom I don't know. (And technical issues aside, it's a fine podcast. Once I was no longer distracted by the sound level variations, I could pay attention to the interesting conversation.)
