Quality does, in fact, matter
Dave Slusher makes a comment about podcasts and "slick" production values:
It’s interesting that the only people I ever hear talking about how the public won’t listen to anything but slick programming are people that produce slick programming.
Depends on what you mean by "slick". I don't like "I turned the mic on to see what would happen" podcasts. If there are dogs barking in the background, or drifting music, or people coughing - it's just annoying. Do you need studio quality stuff? No, but a broadcast filled with extraneous noise is just irksome.
Amateur audio doesn't have to mean "whatever noise happened" audio. Which reminds me - I need to buy a real microphone for my periodic screencasts :)
Comments
College radio
[petrilli] October 28, 2005 13:56:06.450
I think college radio is a good target. This means use a decent microphone (i.e. something that didn't come for free, or isn't integrated into your notebook) -- something $50-100 is perfectly fine. Learn to balance how loud you speak and to do so from a constant distance from the microphone. That's nmy number one complaint, people who seem to rock back and forth infront of their $5 microphone.
Re: Quality does, in fact, matter
[ Darius] October 28, 2005 14:46:29.961
Comment by Darius
Lapel mics might be a better solution for most.
Ummm,
[Dave] October 28, 2005 21:59:00.784
What I meant by "slick" was covered extensively in the post you link to. Did you actually read the post, or just the excerpt on Scripting News? The guy I'm responding to said that "no one will listen to podcasts unless they are up to NPR production standards" which is demonstrably wrong. That's what I'm talking about.