{"id":85,"date":"2008-01-19T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-01-19T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T06:03:08","slug":"try-our-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Try our Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh noes, not another podcast!<\/p>\n

Yeah, well, Fitz<\/a> and I have been thinking about it for a while. The two of us already have this habit of speaking at conventions and geeky gatherings together; you can watch a couple of our talks<\/a> up on YouTube. Whenever we speak, we always have tons of questions from the audience and end up chatting with people for an extra hour in the hallway. So, after three different people approached us and said we oughta make a podcast, we finally capitulated. The trick is, we need QUESTIONS posted to the website, so we have something to talk about.<\/p>\n

To download the podcast, either get the mp3 directly from http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pcloadletter<\/a>, or you can just subscribe to it in iTunes. You might be able to find ‘PC Load Letter’ in the iTunes podcast directory, but if not, just open the “Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast” menu in iTunes, and enter the address http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/PCLoadLetter<\/b>.<\/p>\n

About Episode 1<\/em>: Because we didn’t have any questions yet, we didn’t have a lot to talk about. But at least you get to hear the thrilling theme music I assembled: I played a touch of banjo over some techno-loops, and got to use a nice open-source speech synthesizer while at it. PLEASE post questions to the main website, so we can start pretending our show is a live phone-in show like Car Talk. \ud83d\ude42 If we don’t get any questions, we’ll gracefully let the podcast die.<\/p>\n

Technical Details<\/em>: I have a secret double-life as a sound-designer, so I brought a bunch of recording equipment from my studio to the office. A beautiful BLUE Dragonfly microphone, going into a PreSonus vacuum tube pre-amp, going into a MOTU Ultralite firewire audio interface, going into Digital Performer 5.1 on my Macbook. It’s a wonderfully portable setup which fits all in one backpack. For our next recording, we’ll use better limiting\/compression, and a “real” free-floating mic stand (so that you can’t hear us bumping the table-stand!)<\/p>\n

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