Well good news for
BAMF, a friend of mine, Chin Wong, covers technology for the Manila Standard. He downloaded the podcast and learned about Jobet's invention for the first time, and he's going to contact Bamf to do a story on it for print. So that's one positive thing, hehehe
The other positive thing is the Podcasting project provided me with a crash course in audio editing software. We started off recording clips in Audacity but after running into its limitations, I did a quick overview of other editors and ended up with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 for recording and mixdown to 64kbps mono mp3. Yes, this dates back to 2003 and no longer exists (the company was bought by Adobe and they rechristened it as Adobe Audition), but I found myself very comfortable with it. So it does the job, and that's what counts innit?
Maybe I'll move to another software package for succeeding podcasts, and I will have to hang out in this forum and ask you guys questions. I have questions regarding doing live mixing - riding faders as you would a real mixer, pwede ba dito? And I still need to learn optimum compression/limiting for a radio talk show style recording (which is what a podcast essentially is).
I think I may move to Adobe Audition 2.0 eventually, and that's only because it's what my idol Leo Laporte uses for all his podcasts (he does 10 podcasts a week!)
Also had to compose a theme on the spot using royalty free loops, after Chette warned me we might be sued for using a jazz track from Buhay without their permission. The result was "PM Funk", the wah-wah guitar theme that opens and closes the show. A cut and paste affair, but it's original, and it will have to do for now