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Here is a tasteful photo of Jah’s ex for your album art.

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Antininja - May 3rd 2009 @ 07:36 am

Here is a tasteful photo of Jah’s ex for your album art.

That’s awesome. Congratulations on the best first post ever.

and the taz slippers avatar.  love it.

I love the detail: hole rounded at the edges to prevent injury.

Hobo - May 3rd 2009 @ 07:26 am

For those of you who use iTunes, you can easily adjust the volume of an episode if you check under the Options tab in the episodes Info.

If you don’t understand what normalization is, why respond?

Myself, I don’t think there was much of a problem with that after the first few eps.

I’ll tell you what is fucking annoying, though—the army of reactionary “fuck you, it’s free!” jackoffs who can’t grasp the difference between constructive feedback and baseless flaming.

Antininja - May 3rd 2009 @ 07:36 am

-melon pic-

phenomenal

wog - May 3rd 2009 @ 09:18 pm

If you don’t understand what normalization is, why respond?

Nevermind, I see that I misunderstood what the problem was. This is just what I use in order to not have to turn my ipod all the way up. That way I won’t have a heart attack when I subsequently forget to turn down the volume when I put on some music.

Are they still using the small mics they had in the vids? I haven’t had a problem with normalization for a while now, but I remember it being very noticeable in the first episodes.

Ziv - Jan 26th 2009 @ 02:28 pm

Art.
The itunes subscription xml is missing the album art. As someone who is very anal with his music library having all the artwork embedded and all the tags properly filled out, this podcast is a giant blank square on my road to OCD nirvana.

Just use the hairy image dawg, thats what i do

or just chill out dude.

Driink that fuckin ass milk.

UYD is one of the few podcasts where I think the levels are actually pretty good. Obviously, Jah runs some compression on the ‘cast during post-pro. (Normalization is the wrong word here. Normalization makes different sound files have a volume level close to each other so when you switch from one file to the next, you aren’t suddenly blasting your speakers out. Compression is a different beast. It controls the volume within a recording based on many different factors and in different ways. Not just volume peaks.) Anyway, you can’t (maybe I should say shouldn’t) crank up the compression on a recording just to make the volume consistent. That takes any kind of nuance or character from the recording. Sometimes, voices (or instruments) are purposely quiet or subtle and too much compression would destroy that.

But why am I debating studio techniques here? Just know that Jah is doing a great job, especially considering he is doing this simply because he loves us all, just like Jeezo.

I don’t get it.

A bit of constructive feedback is good.

Two small things.

1. Normalization can be applied within a single range of audio. Didn’t any of you nerds ever use cool edit? The purpose of normalization is to raise all the volume levels using a certain ratio to a certain even level.

2. Compression can normalize in the sense that it can raise levels (if you play with gain and ratios) but it also squishes down sounds that go outside (above) a certain range. Compression is probably the best solution.

I have thought that running the audio through a compressor even in the most rudimentary software such as Audacity (it’s free) would really help to iron out some of the volume levels. It takes about 10 minutes. No lost nuances, no artificial peaks and balances and Jah is an audio head himself, so it’s not like he can’t do it/doesn’t understand how it works.

Bitch back at me. It’s free! Fuck off! They’re just keepin’ it real… yea, yeah…

Antininja - May 3rd 2009 @ 07:36 am

Here is a tasteful photo of Jah’s ex for your album art.

I spent awhile trying to find this picture after telling one of my friends about it… Just wanted to bump this so all can enjoy who may have missed it the first time around.

UYD 111, 8:15

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As for the sound, I think that it’s a issue with using the same setup up, setting your levels and then just agreeing on how loud you’re going to be. As a guy who had a podcast, that’s pretty much what we did. We also recorded directly into garage band, using a seperate mixer and mixing on the fly if need be.

As for the image, I think that that’s something you have to do when you upload. As in put it in the XML file EVERY TIME. We ran into the same thing with our old eps. The issue is though, once you put the feed out there, you don’t want to RE EXPORT just for an f;n image.