I enjoyed the Microzine interviews, and the rest of the episode too.

I was surprised, but pleased, that you considered my comment about Levelation appeared 3 months after me making it, so thanks for that. My question is – are you going to Levelate? The thing about it is, when the podcast isn’t levelated, by the time one’s downloaded it and put it on an ipod and is walking around with it out in the world, it’s too late to do anything about it if one finds the levels too variable for an ambient noise environment.

Speaking as an audio engineer, my advice is that it’s much easier to Levelate to get a good overall result than to expect that a non-studio or studio monitored mix of multiple speakers who all recorded with their own equipment is going to come out well equalised every time. The effect on bumpers is pretty negligible in light of the legibility gains. If this was a podcast containing classical music recordings, I would never suggest Levelating, but it’s a 100% speech podcast.

Cheers.

The April and May episodes were Levelated, as we mentioned in the show. We will likely continue to do so.

Thanks Quinn for answering my question! (about green/amber for composite color output). I think I didn’t word my question very well though.

I was hoping to find a device that would allow tweaking the colors of a composite signal such that I could do amber/green but still keep it a composite signal (I imagine this would require going to RGB and back, I found one device [actually a kit] that can /kinda/ do this, but it is PAL only and I haven’t found substitute chips for NTSC).

I know there are monitors that can do this (like some 1084s), but I am fully invested in my 1702 with a few backups in case I need parts.

Thanks again and REALLY enjoyed the Microzine interviews as well, plan on firing up some of those games with my daughter this weekend. :)