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Lukas

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« on: November 02, 2009, 09:13:23 AM »

The first episode of my podcast is live today!

I decided a few months ago wanted to document and promote the bands and music that I love here in the Pacific Northwest, and the Seattle Punk Audio Zine is the result.

My first episode consists of an interview with The Damage Done and four songs from their recently-released album Scream All Of Our Cliches.  You can listen to it here: http://bit.ly/1lKhCu

Any feedback is welcome, particularly if it helps improve the show.  I've already learned a lot from doing my first couple of interviews and editing together my first episode, but I know there's still a lot for me to figure out.

I hope you all enjoy the show.
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2009, 05:35:46 PM »

I found this today, listening to it right now!  Liking what i hear so far.  what are your future plans for this podcast?  hope I can part of it in the near future.

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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2009, 06:52:06 PM »

damage done rules!
people talking about me rules!
podcasts rule!
lukas rules!!!!!

who's next months?
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2009, 11:25:58 PM »

I found this today, listening to it right now!  Liking what i hear so far.  what are your future plans for this podcast?  hope I can part of it in the near future.

Cool, I'm glad you're liking it.  My plan is to put out one interview show a month with a local band and maybe put up something different (like all-music, radio-type shows or live show recordings) in between those shows occasionally.

Basically any NW band that plays in Seattle occasionally is open to be interviewed.  I just sort of need to know the band/music first.  I hope that doesn't sound dickish; it's not meant to be an exclusionary thing.  There are just a lot of bands around here, and so I basically just have to go with what I know.  Thankfully, what I know is expanding all the time!
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2009, 02:18:21 AM »

The first episode of my podcast is live today!

Great first show Lukas! It was a very enjoyable listen! Keep up the good work.
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2009, 08:46:16 AM »

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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2009, 11:32:45 PM »

Awesome, lukas!  So is it like a monthly thing?
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2009, 08:45:49 AM »

Awesome, lukas!  So is it like a monthly thing?

The interviews will be monthly, at least for the time being.

I'm thinking of doing some in-between shows that I would call SPAZ Radio.  They would be shorter shows (20-30 minutes) that were mostly music, selected by theme.  The first half-dozen or so would be "Best of Venue" themed; I'd pick a small, local venue like GRN STRP or The Morgue and play music by bands I've seen there.

Any interest in something like that?
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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2009, 04:19:32 PM »

Are you going to be at GRN STRP house on the 21st?

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« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2009, 07:25:24 PM »

Are you going to be at GRN STRP house on the 21st?

For sure!
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« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2009, 12:56:48 PM »

I recorded an interview with Shakes on Saturday night before the Grn Strp Haus show.  It'll be up in Episode 5 in January!
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« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2009, 01:38:45 PM »

I recorded an interview with Shakes on Saturday night before the Grn Strp Haus show.  It'll be up in Episode 5 in January!

How did the live recordings turn out?
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« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2009, 02:04:05 PM »

Muddled but listenable?  I haven't gone through them in their entirety, but the spot-listening I did suggests that (a) the cymbals are by far the most dominant sound and (b) the vocals are often hard to hear.
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« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2009, 09:25:17 AM »

Muddled but listenable?  I haven't gone through them in their entirety, but the spot-listening I did suggests that (a) the cymbals are by far the most dominant sound and (b) the vocals are often hard to hear.

This is pretty typical of bootlegz.  Maybe see if anyone on here knows how to get those sounds fixed?
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« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2009, 11:29:57 AM »

Talk to JustLikeDelilah...he can probably help you with the recording issue.

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« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2009, 11:02:00 AM »

Yo Lukas,

If you send me the tracks I think I can work with them and make them sound a little more polished. Did you use a field recorder to record it?
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« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2009, 11:18:14 AM »

Yeah, I recorded it using this: http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/

It was positioned in the back of the room on the stairs, recording with the 120 degree sweep.

What I'd really love to do is sit down with you sometime and have you show me the process to go through to clean up the audio, so I can learn more to help me with putting together the show.  Is this something that can be done in Audacity?  That's what I'm currently using to edit SPAZ.
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« Reply #17 on: November 26, 2009, 11:49:35 AM »

*smacks head*

AUDACITY?!?!?!?!?!?!

*smacks head again*

I'm honestly quite surprised that you were able to edit so efficiently in Audacity, which shows a lot on your part :) . That program is the worst of the worst. It's very limited as far as effects processing and editing and what not, so doing what I think might need to be done to the audio in that piece of software just wouldn't work. There's a lot of steps to go through in order to clean up a "crappy" recording. There's also a few things I use like the Izotope product line and their audio restoration tools that are VST/RTAS based plug-ins that only work in software that supports it. I use ProTools, but you should look into getting a decent piece of software like Cakewalk or Adobe Audition to do some serious cleaning up of audio. If you're one to download software on a less than legal basis, I could point you in a few good directions. If not, there's always Reaper which is free/very cheap. That would be a good piece of software to gather.

But yeah, I can sit you down sometime and show you how to do it, it's just that everything is different and you will need to use your ears and figure out what's wrong with the problem and know how to go about fixing it. And there's a few plug-ins you'd need to buy/steal in order to do some major surgery on stuff.

Email me @ Dangerhouseaudio@gmail.com and we can discuss it further if ya want!




PS. I've got that same recorder and that thing is pretty awesome. I've never used it to record a live show, but I can't imagine that the quality would be TOO bad, and if it was it's more the fault of the room than the recorder.
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« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2010, 08:22:22 AM »

Yeah, I recorded it using this: http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/

It was positioned in the back of the room on the stairs, recording with the 120 degree sweep.

What I'd really love to do is sit down with you sometime and have you show me the process to go through to clean up the audio, so I can learn more to help me with putting together the show.  Is this something that can be done in Audacity?  That's what I'm currently using to edit SPAZ.
Did you ever get this recording sounding better Lukas?
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