Stuart Warf wonders what people thought of the audio quality in Podmafia Podcast episode 66...assuming people have listened to it

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  October 08, 2008 at 17:55 gomem will be listen to podmafia 66 in the car tonight.
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  October 08, 2008 at 18:00 jesta only listened on the iPhone's internal speaker so can't really say, but seemed okay!
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  October 08, 2008 at 18:00 jesta was doing the dishes at the time
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  October 08, 2008 at 18:02 gomem has listened to part of it on a old transistor radio I found dumped on a canal. Sounded great to me.
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  October 08, 2008 at 18:04 ArminasX has not listened to it yet, but the prev episode - i could not hear Stuart very well
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  October 08, 2008 at 18:24 Stuart Warf says yes, the previous episode was bad bad bad. but now it should be fine because Ubercaster does all the manual labour
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  October 08, 2008 at 19:07 Sougent Yxes was too low to hear very well until the very end, noticed quite a few dropouts more toward the end of it.
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  October 08, 2008 at 19:08 Sougent if you're recording on Voice in SL then think you need to make sure all voice levels are the same and adjust before recording.
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  October 08, 2008 at 19:09 Sougent I believe Yxes was probably furthest away from Gomem so was faint because of that.
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  October 08, 2008 at 19:32 gomem says I had voices pickup in camera view. And yxes was the nearest. This is a first attempt at doing podmafia this way.
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  October 08, 2008 at 19:52 Yxes **frowns** my need to strive for perfection, I am more frustrated than words can say. it was a good show, but volumes were not level. geesh!
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  October 08, 2008 at 19:59 Sougent Hmmm, that's odd if you had her closer, cause she sounded furthest away.
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  October 08, 2008 at 20:00 Sougent I suppose it could have been something else with her sound quality, but it wasn't good.....
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  October 08, 2008 at 20:01 Sougent I tend to listen to the podcast the worst way, over an FM transmitter in the car, so audio variations stand out a lot, especially volume
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  October 08, 2008 at 20:01 Sougent sound wise it was a pretty good show, but was a booger to hear Yxes.
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  October 08, 2008 at 20:01 Sougent Podcast before, it was Stuart that was low.
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  October 08, 2008 at 20:30 Sougent There's supposedly an estate setting that will let you turn of the spatialization stuff and let voice be equal volume all over.
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  October 08, 2008 at 21:36 gomem I did apply some normalization and compression to the sl voice channel.
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  October 08, 2008 at 21:38 gomem .... But as radar says its difficult to get sl voice all levelled, because of proximity effect
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  October 08, 2008 at 21:41 Stuart Warf says if theres a setting to turn spatialization off...then we need to set that. then it makes the job easier
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  October 08, 2008 at 22:59 gomem .... But as radar says its difficult to get sl voice all levelled, because of proximity effect
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  October 08, 2008 at 23:56 Sougent says yeah, if you could get the spatialization turned off, you'd be good, otherwise you'll have to sit and stay put.
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  October 08, 2008 at 23:57 Sougent Gomem in the middle, Stuart and Yxes on either side.
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  October 08, 2008 at 23:57 Sougent maybe adjust the sound for each, do a test recording to check the levels first.
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  October 08, 2008 at 23:58 Sougent says might want to consider setting to pick up voice based on avatar rather than camera that way you can cam around but as long as you stay
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  October 08, 2008 at 23:58 Sougent still, you'd be good.
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  October 08, 2008 at 23:58 Sougent Though for shopping/exploring trips, that wouldn't work so good.
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  October 09, 2008 at 00:21 gomem says shopping and exploring could be done in private voice conf. then levels are consistent ...
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  October 09, 2008 at 00:23 gomem ... plus there would be no nearby non relevant chatter. We've done this before.
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  October 09, 2008 at 00:24 gomem of course in a live show voice chat has to be open.
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  October 09, 2008 at 00:34 Sougent Yeah, that would help with participation, though this last one didn't seem to have any.
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  October 09, 2008 at 00:58 Stuart Warf says i think the audience was just shy hehe
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:25 Nikadreamscape It was really low, I couldn't hear most of it at work from the background noise in my dept, also sound was cutting out every few seconds
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:46 gomem says
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:48 gomem cutting out seems to be a feature of sl voice. It's not such a problem with using skype, also skype the levels are much more consistant.
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:50 gomem Itazura radio did chip in towards the start of 66, I noticed he was definately faint due to proximity.
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:52 gomem shows like Tonight Live are done via skype, with the audio streamed onto the parcel. This seems to give consistant audio.
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:53 gomem I listened to the show while driving via fm transmitter could here it ok, including Yxes.
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  October 09, 2008 at 01:54 gomem I assume something like rezznecks is done on skype.
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  October 09, 2008 at 02:28 Nikadreamscape I still can't understand why you don't just record with Skype
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  October 09, 2008 at 02:48 gomem thinks for future epusodes we will stick with skype. Can still put the chat in world, and audiance members can call in if they want.
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:24 Sougent says I think SL voice can be fine, just need a little prep work, do a test recording, jack up the volume on anyone that needs it, thenrecord
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:34 gomem Yeh should be able to get the levels better on sl voice, but can't do anything about the dropouts I gets with it.
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:35 gomem how does one turn up the volume on a single avatar in open voice chat ?
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:38 gomem one could apply more compression, but then it would sound like previous eps.
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:44 Sougent Yep, nothing you can do about the drop outs, but you just bring up the list of voice chatters, click on the name and adjust the volume
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:44 Sougent it's the little thingee next to the voice chat button
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:48 Sougent
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  October 09, 2008 at 03:49 Sougent a handy dandy Torley video