Gaming 28 - Revisiting the Village
Posted on 21st Jun 2011 at 12:00 by Podcast with 19 comments
We're joined by Mode 7 Games, the developer of Frozen Synapse this week.
This week the team chat about Duke Nukem Forever and the controversy surrounding its release and reception. The conversation then moves on to Prey 2, and the fond memories most of us had of its predecessor.
Of course, we also had an interesting chat with Ian and Paul about Frozen Synapse and how the game came into being. We even found the time to ask them some of the questions that you posed them via the bit-tech and bit-gamer Facebook and Twitter pages.
As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset. The headset weighs only 15g and comes complete with a carry bag and rubberised ergonomic earplugs.
As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.
This week the team chat about Duke Nukem Forever and the controversy surrounding its release and reception. The conversation then moves on to Prey 2, and the fond memories most of us had of its predecessor.
Of course, we also had an interesting chat with Ian and Paul about Frozen Synapse and how the game came into being. We even found the time to ask them some of the questions that you posed them via the bit-tech and bit-gamer Facebook and Twitter pages.
As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset. The headset weighs only 15g and comes complete with a carry bag and rubberised ergonomic earplugs.
As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.
19 Comments
Discuss in the forums ReplyYou know, if you all wore wired up headphones whilst your recorded it, you'd know as you spoke if the levels were off.
Then you lot all complain that it's too quiet, leaving us unsure where the problem is...
It simply sounds like some people talk loudly/very close the mic, whereas others lean further back/talk quieter.
Either record everyone on different channels, so that you can hike the volume of particular people if necessary during editing, or record using headphones so you know during recording if someone's too quiet, and ask them to move forward/speak louder.
EDIT:
Listening back to it now (while i'm not simultaneously testing a PC for the mag) i can see some little imperfections. Ian could be louder later on for example, which is frustrating.
Some of the little dips in volume are also because people turn their heads when speaking to the person next to them rather than speaking into the mic.
/fanboy.
I'll admit I listened to it on the train, so I think the background noise probably drowned out a lot of the quieter moments of speech that you wouldn't struggle with normally.
It just seemed to be that Harry was very easy to hear all the time, Joe a little less so, and one of the Mode 7 guys was noticably hard to pick out.
It's frustrating. We record and edit the podcast in garage band and what it spits out when we click 'export to disk' sometimes doesnt sound all that much like what you've just spent an age editing :-(
Homeworld was mentioned in this podcast!?
*Goes to download immediately. *
Was a bit disappointed at being another gamer podcast, but I'll forgive you for mentioning homeworld.
cut a random part of the podcast to show you the difference.. that should end the issues with the different voice volumes
http://www.4shared.com/get/FxRlAj9m/samples.html
In fact I was very tempted to buy Frozen Synapse until they said they didn't like cheesecake ... :|
My interest is peaking though and as soon as they release Synapse as a single game I'll pick it up for a check out :D
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wow, this podcast is full of classics, nice!