 Audio Report: the big con big pre-show
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August 05, 2006
Audio Report: the big con big pre-show In which we call out a mess of Gen Con releases to which we look forward, and include a review from the 2d6 Feet crew of our Ogre's Choice honoree True 20. And as always, a whole mess of other crap. Talk about it below.
August 5, 2006 04:13 PM: Chris says... "This show, with EXTRA crap!" Woo!
August 5, 2006 06:08 PM: FoE3 says... Bah ... I totally miscalled "Damage Save" is actually "Toughness Save".
August 5, 2006 06:16 PM: Chris says... Amateur!
August 5, 2006 08:30 PM: WilliamG says... Guys, you've got an echo again. It hasn't been there for a few weeks, but it's back now.
August 7, 2006 06:47 AM: disziplin says... Wow. First let me say that I always enjoy your podcast. Having said that, the audio quality is always quite poor. And having said that, the audio qualty on this podcast is the worst ever! The volume is extremely low, there is a pronounced echo, and it is also heavily distorted across the board. Almost impossible to listen to.
August 7, 2006 12:30 PM: misuba says... I listen to the show on several different audio setups before uploading it, and I detected (and still detect) no problems with the levels. I also hear no echo for most of the show - there were some incidents I couldn't clear out towards the end - and I really don't think my ears are that borked. If anyone has specific, clear recommendations on how to improve the sound quality that don't involve spending hundreds of dollars or taking a college-level engineering course, by all means I am open to them.
August 7, 2006 12:51 PM: Chris says... Agreed. What are you guys listening through...head phones, or speakers?
August 7, 2006 01:05 PM: Chris says... I also just posted that last comment without mentioning that on a Apple G4 Powerbooks internal speakers this episode sounds fine. Downstairs on my Dualie G4 Powermac, it sounds even better. Levels are clean, and there are only spotting issues with echo. On my sons older PC is sounds as good as on the G4. The echo seems to be a skype issue directly related to the Mac versions. It is reduced by running skype over ethernet, and not through WiFi. The wifi seems to create the most problems, and thats something I forgot to emliminate on my end for this most recent show. But in general, I am with Mike on this one, the quality seems ok on my end. I dont get where all the variation comes from on the end user, well end. Sadly, we do our best, don'
August 7, 2006 02:20 PM: Irate Squirrel says... I listen to the show on a pair of cambridge computer speakers and the cast sounds fine. I have a cable connection and download the episodes to my computer. It also sounds fine on my ipod. It's not crystal digital audio but I could listen to it fine. As a participant in Chris's Dogs game I agree that Carl Rigney is an awesome GM and teacher. If any of you have the opportunity to get into one of his games do it! I enjoyed the review of True 20 and am looking forward to hearing about all the goodies at Gen Con, have fun guys!
August 7, 2006 11:05 PM: Allan Sugarbaker says... > the audio qualty on this podcast is the worst ever dis: Haven't listened to the problems we had during the WizKids guest show yet, have you? That was our worst, as Skype's call-in service quality was... less than stellar. Our guest was on a sub-par cell phone, too. We'll be taking a different approach the next time we have a guest. We're still trying to improve things, and are always open to suggestions. But worst ever? Not even close. :-)
August 7, 2006 11:25 PM: Zach says... The show sounded fine to me. I'm excited to hear about GenCon goodness - don't forget to post between Mechaton games.
August 8, 2006 01:33 AM: Matthew says... I have been the most common whinger about quality in the past. And this episode (and the ones recently before it) sounded perfectly fine.
August 8, 2006 07:32 AM: Tibor says... You guys should check out the article Gamerswithjobs did this morning going into Gen Con. Freakin' hilarious http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/26234
August 8, 2006 12:36 PM: Thomas says... Another peculiar thing I've noticed with the podcast is if I use iTunes do download it and then transfer the file over to my portable non-iPod MP3 player, playback sounds really distorted and slow. Sort of like playing a 45 record at 33 1/3. Yet if I download the file directly from /audio and transfer it to my MP3 player, it plays fine.
August 8, 2006 02:07 PM: misuba says... Comment link fixed, thank you Matthew.
August 9, 2006 06:53 PM: Will says... Sounds fine thru my TiVo.
August 10, 2006 10:10 AM: Dave T. Game says... Re: Coldsnap Audio quality was fine with me- downloaded on iTunes, placed on the iPod and FM broadcasted.
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