The show is live!!

Well, we finished our first podcast. It has been almost a month since we started and it feels great to have it done. At the moment I am sitting in the studio listening to Steely Dan’s Aja while waiting for the show to upload to libsyn and then I will push the new site when I get back to the house.

Aja you ask? Yeah, well the more I listen to Steely Dan the more I get it. It is some of the most well produced music I have heard. That and the musicians they have are just sick. Cedub is a huge fan of them and he has got me hooked. It is interesting to me because my father listened to them all the time when I was growing up. I remember liking them, but that was all I recall. Its nice to go back and revisit it.

The last few days have been focused on winding up the show in the studio. We had to finish all the bumpers, get Dave in for the interview, get Christopher in for the Ambient Airlines section and then edit and mix the show down. We just did our final pass listening to the show a few minuets ago and we feel that it sounds really good, even at 96kbps.

We did learn a few great things while doing the show. One big thing we learned is that we need to treat the live room. We found this out because we decided to experiment with setting up a stereo mic pair and run them into the Amek 9098 with MS Stereo enabled. The idea is that when you listen to the interview and news segments you get to hear the position of each speaker.

The effect is pretty cool, but the mics have to be a certain distance from the speakers for the effect to work. We first tried to do it in the control room because we have a couch and chairs, but the fans from the equipment was too loud. We moved the rig to the live room and then we found out that the room is just way to bright. You hear the space and it rings in the recording.

Until we can treat the room and put some better sound reinforcement and baffling, we will just use a Shure 57 for each of the speakers. If we want to create a stereo placement we can just used panned mono to create a positioning effect. Well, the show is live on the RSS feed now I just need to update the site. Have a great one everybody!!

ps - for some reason I couldn't couldn't cut and paste this on a Mac in Firefox so I did it from how. The FS site is live now and within 20 min. of pushing the show we had 5 downloads and 1 subscripiton. WTF?!?! We haven't even announced it yet except for the ping the audio blog site. Crazy!!