Summary: I recorded the first episode of The Fringe Podcast speaking directly into the digital recorder while standing in my closet. I thought the clothes in the closet would help absorb any echo from my voice, and also drown out the noise from my kids in the other room. Jason ended up not wanting to drive to my house each week, and never even used the equipment he’d help pay for. We would bring him in via Skype each week.<br> <br> There is so much I didn’t know back then. I had no idea how to get rid of that chirping electrical sound from our computers. I didn’t know about shock mounts. I had never even heard of a compressor/limiter/gate. We landed an interview with actress Jasika Nicole about a month after the show premiered. From an audio quality standpoint, that interview was and is a disaster. <br> <br> In fact, it is such a disaster that when I was at new media expo 2014 I sat in on a session that had Ray Ortega as one of the panelists. I was surprised when he mentioned this Fringe podcast that interviewed one of the actresses and how terrible the audio was. He went on to say a few other very critical things about the podcast. Keep in mind that Ray Ortega and I had never met.<br> <br> Later that day I saw Ray out in the hall and I swooped in. I asked him if he remembered the exact name of the Fringe podcast. He said that he didn’t. I told him that I was quite sure that he was talking about my show. He stammered a bit and insisted that I was probably mistaken. I described the audio to him and the actress that was in the interview. We both agreed that it was indeed my show that he’d just trashed to the audience of New Media Expo. Read More...
