Episode 17 - "Leadership, Part One"

Here's a "live-to-harddrive" experiment that I actually carried through to the very end... and you, the listener, get to suffer for it. Let me know what you think of the format, because it's a whole lot easier to get a show put together this way... but I don't want it to sound unbearably bad. I can work on improving the sound, but only if you like the much-less-"produced" feel of it.

Speaking of... the sound quality on this leads something to be desired, especially with the rain in the background, which is a cool effect but doesn't make things any clearer. Sorry! I actually ran the compression/hard-limiting/normalizing process on this twice, which leveled things off but really mashed up the audio in the process (technical term).

One final technical element; I normalized this particular recording to -.1 dB rather than -.01 dB, which means that it's slightly less "loud" but also less likely to clip on your MP3 player. I probably shouldn't be experimenting on a recording that's so radically different in so many other ways as well... but, point being, if it sounds "softer", that's probably because of the levels and not the "live" recording.

Topics

• A phoenix of an eMachines (metaphorically speaking)
• More projector-related exploits
• The Word of the Week returns!
• Leadership - how good is it?
• More music from Rianoir, live at Soulstice