Letters to Lost Friends

Days ahead of schedule, here is the first episode-that-is-not-an-episode. Really, this is as much a test of the whole process, from recording to delivery as it is an actual episode. Thus the “0” designation. Overall, I think it sounds ok. A bit too much sibilance here and there and I tend to ramble (which will hopefully be mitigated in future episodes as I will be reading more and improvising less), and I’m not terribly happy with the quality of my mic, but in the end it’s better than some podcasts I’ve heard and I’m hoping to get better with experience and as I try out different recording methods and post-production tricks. I recorded the voice track in Amadeus Pro and then mixed everything in Garageband. Unfortunately, Garageband doesn’t seem to have a built in deesser, so I brought everything over into Logic Express, added the deesser to the vocal and exported it all out to mp3.

Clumsy I know, and I forgot to use Levelator on the files before compressing and I think the whole workflow in general needs some tweaking. Please, let me know what you think. Any and all criticisms will be helpful to me at this stage of the game, so be cruel to be kind . . . I can take it.

The next episode is still slated for April 23 and I will take the extra time to try and get submissions and play around more with the production elements. Hopefully, this will show upon iTune’s podcast directory in the next couple of day. When it does, I’ll drop a post here to let everyone know. In the meantime, you can use the feed link in the previous post.

Here it is: