The podcast was great, I’d love to have it on a regular basis, but the background music was distracting. A little music as an intro an a closer would be fine, but having it all the way through was somewhat irksome.

Posted at 11:59 am on Oct 28th, 2006 by Seth Just

Thanks. I’m glad you liked it.
I’m still messing around with the format – it’s hard to think of your own voice as interesting.

Posted at 12:07 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Will O'Brien

That’s a MXL 1006. I added a link to my page about the hardware I used for the post.

Posted at 12:50 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Will O'Brien

You mean you BOUGHT a mic and a preamp? How un-hack-a-day of you.

Posted at 1:16 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Jozer

I found the music in the background very distracting. I was trying to listen to the podcast while my roommate slept in the other room but i couldnt turn it up very loud because of the volume of the background music. maybe lower the volume of the background music… otherwise i really cant listen to it before work =o/

i dont own a “pod” so… no headphones XD

Posted at 1:36 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Ch33ze

I got the amp and the mic for the cost of the amp. And the amp is pretty mod friendly – I’ve got some burr brown chips I might put in instead.

Posted at 2:31 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Will O'Brien

I must say, great podcast.
I enjoyed having the music in the backgroung…

Posted at 2:37 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Chris_Rybitski

It was enjoyable but it would have been better if the music was a tad lower in volume , it was hard to hear you speaking at times(not to say the music doesn’t have its role , it just needs to be in the background).

Posted at 3:26 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Jake

I’ve been looking for a nice alternative to a typical PC mic to do some voice recordings… Any hardware suggestions for something better then your typical PC mic but not as pricey as the setup you used… Maybe something $75-ish?

Posted at 4:13 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by twistedsymphony

it’s fine, but the background music needs to go, or at least turned down quite a bit, because it is very distracting.

Posted at 4:22 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by andrew

Okay. So besides the background music… do you folks have any suggestions for what type of content you would like to see in the show etc?

Posted at 4:30 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Eliot Phillips

Interviews, i think #2 had one, not sure but one of them did.

Also i liked the music, just turn it down a but.

Posted at 7:04 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by weirdguy0101

oh good idea, i’ll second that on the interviews :)

Posted at 8:41 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by andrew

perhaps note some hacks that didn’t make it on to hackaday? i don’t know how many you guys “throw out” per se, but…

Posted at 8:44 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by andrew

Perhaps like… a “honorable mention” section… like andrew said, hacks that just didnt quite make it but are still kinda fun if we want to look em up or google around. maybe links to them with the podcast. “mentioned in the podcast… -link-” ?

:3

Posted at 9:59 pm on Oct 28th, 2006 by Ch33ze

Good podcast, but get rid of the music bed.. it’s a bit much.

Posted at 7:08 am on Oct 29th, 2006 by krux

Personally I’d love to hear your view on the hacks (already there, keep it up :) ) and any uses you see or larger interesting projects you know of where they are used. if anything it should content the “this is a useless hack” people and give a wider context for how stuff can be used (eg the wake-on-lan ideas from the last one).

references to relevant previous projects would be good for people who haven’t been reading for long. it shouldn’t need technical details unless they’re absent from the hack write-up, but possibly some type of FAQ-style answers to questions that many people are asking.
I second the music comments, the bed was good but the level was too high. interviews would also be awesome.

Posted at 12:33 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by PKM

Podcast audio sounds great and congrats on starting it back up. Some suggestions:

1) As mentioned before, remove the music from all but the intro

2) Get a co-host, somebody you can bounce ideas off of and vice-versa. Otherwise you might just read though the points quickly and skip over some really good discussion topics.

Posted at 4:34 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by Old Number 7

Yup.

Sigh, don’t have time to hunt down the first one.
Here’s 2 and 3. The second is the best.
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/05/28/hackcast-hackaday-podcast-2/
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/07/08/hackaday-podcast-03/

Posted at 9:46 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by Will O'Brien

The podcast was cool. But as so many people have said the music was to loud. One thing that could add to the podcast would be a co-host. Drop me an line if you would like to work together.

-Bill

Posted at 2:28 pm on Oct 30th, 2006 by Bill

The links to the old podcast audio files don’t appear to be working on their pages- the mp3 files linked to appear not to exist, and the site (media.weblogsinc.com/…) gets stuck in an infinite loop of redirecting. If you have local copies could you put them up on the site somewhere?

Posted at 6:59 am on Oct 31st, 2006 by PKM

You may want to stick a pop-filter in front of the MXL to cut down on plosives. There were a few instances during the cast.

If you have any audio questions, feel free to email me at the address provided.

Posted at 10:05 am on Nov 6th, 2006 by csaw

Please speak up a little more. It was a little hard to follow parts, although that could change with no or limited background noise. thanks.

Posted at 3:51 pm on Nov 27th, 2006 by dave

it was hard to hear the guy talkign while the music played. thats my only isue with it.

Posted at 8:17 pm on Jan 10th, 2007 by Kelsea