Strange Beings #2 – Nate Kontny
strangebeings.coDaniel, congrats on making this happen and on lining up some very cool guests. Loving your podcast so far. I say this as someone who's tried his hand at podcasting a couple of times, and who'd love to give it another shot at some point down the line. Listening to your podcast is inspiring me to get off my ass and get back to work. :)
Making interesting episodes every week is logistically challenging. Lining up a consistent roster of guests even more so. Sounds like you've been planning your roster for awhile, and that's definitely the way to go.
Technically speaking, not sure if you've done anything differently with your audio setup in Ep 2 vs. Ep 1, but I'm noticing a much more balanced sound with you and Nate than I did with you and Keith in the first episode. It's significantly improved. Is that something you're doing in the mix, or is that an improvement on the input side?
I believe Nate was in the same room as Daniel in ep 2, where Keith was over skype in ep 1.
Yeah, that would be my guess. Even still, there are things you can do to equalize the sound of two different audio streams (as in a Skype call, where each side presumably records its own input channel). It sounded to my ear as if one person had recorded in mono and the other had recorded in stereo. I could be wrong about that, but if that had been the case, you can mix both streams to mono for a relatively decent fix.
Hey Jon. I don't check HN comments very often. Keith was unable to record the audio on his side, plus he didn't have headphones or a microphone. On top of all that, we had to use Google Hangouts instead of Skype, which would have improved the audio at least a little bit. Overall, I think it turned out pretty good for how little I could control myself. Even Nate's episode was bad IMO because the room was so noisy and we were far from the mic. It's hopefully going to get a lot better!
This is a great episode. Daniel is still figuring things out, but there were so many great nuggets in there that I didn't care it wasn't the smoothest interview.
Loving the aesthetic of this site - breaking away from the mould of the billion other business podcasts. Having Keith Rabois for your first episode is a strong vibe too.
Nate Rocks.
Yeah! He's so awesome. I really loved recording this episode with him.