As part of our brand and site retooling, we’re planning to release a regular series of podcasts through iTunes and our site. Gearing up for a weekly release, though that might be a tad optimistic if earlier efforts are any indication.
Previous Podcast fail
We started recording podcasts last year, but our ‘weekly’ series fell quickly to the wayside after one pretty lame attempt (still available on iTunes and here). Complete and utter podcast fail. Several reasons really. One: I relied on too much technology. Had a flipping semi-pro level recording studio set up before I uttered my first podcast word. This meant I had to talk into a mike while wearing headphones and became too formal and stilted in my presentation. Two: I hate my voice. People tell me that they hate their voice too, which is fair enough, but I really, really hate mine and Three: I am a disorganized cluster feck. We’re working on One & Three, and I’m just going to have to deal with Two.
Podcast redux
With some of the original bugs now worked out (we’ve simplified our recording setup greatly for a more informal approach), think it’s time to have another go, this time trying to make our weekly podcast, well, weekly. We’re going to create two podcast themes – one for designers and one for clients – to tie everything into The Logo Factor overall concept. And this would be week number one.
Have some suggestions for a topic?
With all this talk (and blogging, and Twittering) about ‘crowdsourcing’, we’re going to do a little of our own and ask readers to select the subject for our first podcast series redux with a simple poll (see below). Feel free to pick a subject from the choices below or if you’d like some other subject covered, drop us a suggestion in the text box provided or in the comments thread. If you have a question you’d like to ask, feel free to do that as well. Otherwise I’ll probably go off on some anti-spec-work rant.
And none of us want that.
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Coolio! A good tool I use to use is “Levelator” for running a podcast recording through before editing the audio.
Hey Von! Thanks for dropping by and thanks for the tip. I took a look at the Levelator app (found it here) and it looks like it might be quite useful. We’re trying to take a more informal approach to our recording sessions, and will probably end up with various sound files of varying quality and volume. Levelator looks like it will help maintain some volume consistency (and it’s free – even for “commercial” use).
Thanks again.