Hackaday podcast 4

Posted Oct 28th 2006 11:17AM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: podcasts

I've been thinking of resurrecting the podcast for a while. Now that my new mic and preamp finally showed up, it's here, That's right, podcast 4 is up. It's an experiment, so let me know what you think. If it goes over well, I'll try to make it a weekly feature. In the meantime, you can get it here - I'll let you know when it's published via iTunes. Meanwhile, here's the rss feed if you want to subscribe. If you want to know about the hardware, you can check it out here.

[Yes, there will be a new hack later today.]
Oh yes, I forgot to add the music credits. Today's podcast featured Captured by Ronka R and Discoshit by Voxter

Reader Comments

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1. The podcast was great, I'd love to have it on a regular basis, but the background music was distracting. A little music as an intro an a closer would be fine, but having it all the way through was somewhat irksome.

Posted at 11:59AM on Oct 28th 2006 by Seth Just

2. Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
I'm still messing around with the format - it's hard to think of your own voice as interesting.

Posted at 12:07PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Will O'Brien

3. I really enjoyed it too. Although I totally dug the background music, it was occasionally too loud.

Is that a MXL V63MBP?

Posted at 12:34PM on Oct 28th 2006 by anaraug

4. That's a MXL 1006. I added a link to my page about the hardware I used for the post.

Posted at 12:50PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Will O'Brien

5. Yeah, having the music play the whole time just sounds stupid. Can I make a request? The first minute or so of "Shadows of Silence" by Enigma.

Posted at 12:59PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Crash

6. You mean you BOUGHT a mic and a preamp? How un-hack-a-day of you.

Posted at 1:31PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Jozer

7. I found the music in the background very distracting. I was trying to listen to the podcast while my roommate slept in the other room but i couldnt turn it up very loud because of the volume of the background music. maybe lower the volume of the background music... otherwise i really cant listen to it before work =o/

i dont own a "pod" so... no headphones XD

Posted at 1:36PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Ch33ze

8. I got the amp and the mic for the cost of the amp. And the amp is pretty mod friendly - I've got some burr brown chips I might put in instead.

Posted at 2:31PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Will O'Brien

9. I must say, great podcast.
I enjoyed having the music in the backgroung...

Posted at 2:38PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Chris_Rybitski

10. It was enjoyable but it would have been better if the music was a tad lower in volume , it was hard to hear you speaking at times(not to say the music doesn't have its role , it just needs to be in the background).

Posted at 3:27PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Jake

11. I've been looking for a nice alternative to a typical PC mic to do some voice recordings... Any hardware suggestions for something better then your typical PC mic but not as pricey as the setup you used... Maybe something $75-ish?

Posted at 4:18PM on Oct 28th 2006 by twistedsymphony

12. it's fine, but the background music needs to go, or at least turned down quite a bit, because it is very distracting.

Posted at 4:23PM on Oct 28th 2006 by andrew

13. Okay. So besides the background music... do you folks have any suggestions for what type of content you would like to see in the show etc?

Posted at 4:30PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Eliot Phillips

14. Interviews, i think #2 had one, not sure but one of them did.

Also i liked the music, just turn it down a but.

Posted at 7:04PM on Oct 28th 2006 by weirdguy0101

15. oh good idea, i'll second that on the interviews :)

Posted at 8:41PM on Oct 28th 2006 by andrew

16. perhaps note some hacks that didn't make it on to hackaday? i don't know how many you guys "throw out" per se, but...

Posted at 8:45PM on Oct 28th 2006 by andrew

17. Perhaps like... a "honorable mention" section... like andrew said, hacks that just didnt quite make it but are still kinda fun if we want to look em up or google around. maybe links to them with the podcast. "mentioned in the podcast... -link-" ?

:3

Posted at 10:00PM on Oct 28th 2006 by Ch33ze

18. Good podcast, but get rid of the music bed.. it's a bit much.

Posted at 7:09AM on Oct 29th 2006 by krux

19. Personally I'd love to hear your view on the hacks (already there, keep it up :) ) and any uses you see or larger interesting projects you know of where they are used. if anything it should content the "this is a useless hack" people and give a wider context for how stuff can be used (eg the wake-on-lan ideas from the last one).

references to relevant previous projects would be good for people who haven't been reading for long. it shouldn't need technical details unless they're absent from the hack write-up, but possibly some type of FAQ-style answers to questions that many people are asking.
I second the music comments, the bed was good but the level was too high. interviews would also be awesome.

Posted at 12:34PM on Oct 29th 2006 by PKM

20. Podcast audio sounds great and congrats on starting it back up. Some suggestions:

1) As mentioned before, remove the music from all but the intro

2) Get a co-host, somebody you can bounce ideas off of and vice-versa. Otherwise you might just read though the points quickly and skip over some really good discussion topics.

Posted at 4:34PM on Oct 29th 2006 by Old Number 7

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