Flavor Text Podcast

After recording the first episode, Geneva and I listened to it several times. We’re the kind of people who strive to improve ourselves and we’re almost depressingly self-critical, so we immediately picked up on some of what we were doing wrong. As such, we tried to improve on the following in the second episode:

• Breathing into the mic. Geneva’s mic boom is a little shorter than mine and as a result you could hear respiration. To solve this, she adjusted the placement. I think this had a negative impact on her volume, but that’ll be a fix for episode 3.
• Ums/ers/stutters/dead air. We consciously tried to avoid these in episode 2 and I put in a fair bit of post editing, so hopefully this one flows a lot better than the first one.
• Trailer clip interruptions. Our first feedback encouraged us to back off with these interruptions, so we held out for the Durarara episode. Miss them? Glad they’re gone? Let us know!
• Coherency. We’ve actually recorded both of these entire episodes twice. Each time, the first episode ran significantly longer and we didn’t feel we were being succinct enough. We also feel like we do a better job of avoiding unnecessary details on the second recording, but by all means tell us if you want more details. Durarara has dozens of characters and we focused on only a few while discussing it. Would you have preferred more?

So what have we missed? What do we do that bothers you? We’re going to record episode 3 at a higher bitrate and through a process that should balance the levels between myself and Geneva, so hopefully the volume discrepancy will go away. Any feedback I get between now and recording will probably be incorporated, so please be as constructively critical as possible.