Checking in again

I was just handed the new Sia album (she sings for Zero 7) that I purchased from Amazon. I had to order it as an import because it seems to not be released here in the states (it appears to be the Chinese version), so of course it cost me an arm and a leg. I heard a version of Breathe remixed by Four Tet on Aurgasm and I just had to get it. I totally don’t regret it. Wow does she have such an awesome voice. Shivers I have...

I want to thank any of my readers that checked out the first Fake Science podcast. We have been getting a ton of great feedback, nice reviews and general warm and fuzzies. At this point we have decided to go to a bi-weekly show and we are hard at work on the next show. We have a killer line-up but I am not ready to jinx it yet and announce who and what but all I have to say is no matter what this will be great show.

As I mentioned in the last post we decided to get away from the stereo mic’ing on the interview/news section and this round we went with an individual mic for each speaker. We have only recorded the news/editorial section so far and we had a Shure 57 on each of us with a bit of compression to manage the levels and recorded it down.

One thing that we noticed was that there was still some ambience in the mix but that was actually due to bleed over from the other mics. To resolve this I edited the section as we saw fit then dumped any track that didn’t have one of us currently speaking. This created a really, really nice and tight presence for the recording.

Some of you may have noticed the overall leveling issue we had with the show. We discussed this and Cedub purchased the UAD Precision Limiter for our UAD-1 DSP card to handle the problem. We are using the UAD LA-2A for general compression on sections of the show and then we will hard limit the entire show before we LAME it down to MP3. Good stuff…