“This week, the kids talk retro emulation, Tayo talks Joss Whedon, and Sony’s latest hardware disaster.”
WARNING: EXPLICIT (that means we say bad words sometimes)
Kids in this episode: Switch, Tayo, and Zeus
Fans of Joss Whedon can comment below, or send their hatemail to tayo@dangerouskids.net
Switch: I completely agree with you on how retardedly finicky computers can be. My theater friends lost their final exam project because their computer corrupted their movie.
Zeus: I felt bad for you, it sounded like you needed a lozenge the entire second half of the show. I hope you’re feeling better =)
Tayo: I respect your opinion for Joss Whedon, though I have to disagree. The manner in which you presented your argument made it sound as if you were insulting his career via only one of his works. I agree, Buffy was a mediocre series as best, and the casting could’ve been better, though you cannot insult a man’s work just for one of his pieces. That would be like Zeus saying she hates Will Wright just because of The Sims Pets. Joss Whedon has come out with several great works since then, such as Firefly, Dollhouse, Serenity, and my all time favorite movie/musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. They have all been fantastic productions, and yes, they have had climaxes without the need of a sexual medium. Well, that’s my rant for this week. Tayo, you can call me a Joss Whedon fanboy all you want, and I won’t mind. I just wanted to voice my opinion.
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Hey, cool website. Should come in handy. Thanks Switch.
Joss Whedon is one of those artists where I love half of their material and completely, and utterly despise the other half. Most of his fans consider him a god and I would agree with them if he was consistent. Hell, even if he only made one bad project I’d agree with his hardcore fans. But, sorry, Whedon’s “god” status is reserved for the Coen Bros. where even their “bad” movies (there’s really only two, maybe three) is like a shiny, golden turd compared to Whedon’s most wretched works. Not a good “nerd” example? Well, how about Alan Moore? Now that’s a writer. That’s a legend. His graphic novels are incredibly consistent. I don’t believe he’s ever published anything that was horrible. It’s just unfortunate that all of Moore’s books get turned into mediocre, hackneyed “films.”
I all ways wanted to know wat type of recording program you think is the best and which is the worst?
It depends on the application.
For the new setup for our show, I mix everybody live on the fly and then just send the output to the line-in on my laptop. My laptop just functions like an expensive voice-recorder at that point, so for that kind of basic recording, I use Sony’s Sound Forge software. I’ve been using Sound Forge since version 4 back in the 90′s for tons of various editing applications. As a stand-alone editor, it’s great, especially if I’m working with samples for a remix or some project I’m doing in Acid. The biggest thing for this show, though, is that even though it takes a little longer to bounce down 30 minutes of uncompressed audio to an mp3, it’s stable and reliable, so I use it to record DK.
For production, I’ve been using Adobe Audition. It’s a multi-track editor where I can cut together the news segments, mix the music in for the show, apply compression and minor EQ tweaks if I need to, and basically just put the whole damn thing together. Once I export the final mp3 from Audition, I just change the file name and some basic tag info and upload it to the site.
In a perfect world, I’d be recording everybody to their own track in Pro Tools so I can tweak everything in post instead of mixing on the fly, but mixing on the fly is cheaper and I had some experience mixing a live sound board growing up, so Pro Tools (or Digital Performer, if you prefer) will have to wait.
The worst? Audacity. Fuck free audio software. I’ll never go back.
- Switch
thanks
I’m finally catching up on the podcasts I’ve missed while my life was busy being crazy, and I’ve gotta say I’m on the side of “computers break”. We cannot yet rely completely on digital distribution (just look at iTunes and the fact that a fried motherboard has me currently – hopefully temporarily – separated from my legally purchased music collection). This is the same logic that has me not ready to trust hard drive video cameras…I need a hard copy of my footage. And I need to know that when (not if) there is a glitch while I’m recording, I’m not too likely to lose the last hour of recording. Tape formats – MiniDV and HDV – are still more trustworthy than the digital alternatives.
I do look forward to when all-digital models are more reliable. For cameras, I’d effing love to cut out importing time. For video games, I’d love to not have a shitload of discs lying around. As a Maxis whore, I have a metric fuckton of Sims expansion packs, and each new one makes the previous set of discs pretty much useless until something makes a fresh install necessary…by which time, I’ve misplaced the discs or the damn purchase code.
I welcome digital downloads, once they come up with a surefire “We are not going to rip you off” method that allows me to re-download a purchased-but-lost game without buying it again. That’s all I really need; in this day and age, the speed it would take to download & install would – in many cases – take the same amount of time as it would to install it from a CD or DVD.