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[famousmortimer]

I got pointed over to these boards from my long time instanet pal (and super Mormon), Mik. I haven't listened to the podcasts yet but I will check them out for sure. But after lurking for a few days it seems like you guys have a good thing going over here so I figured I'd add my propensity for wasting large amounts of my days chatting about videogames to the fray.


About me:

Famousmortimer resides on the east coast and feels creepy and powerful talking about himself in the third person. He has above average nerd credentials including a girlfriend who is currently watching each and every star trek series from start to finish, back to back. He was once a complete world of warcraft addict, with 7 characters at level 70, but has since quit that mess and is now whoring trophies on the PS3 (430 and counting!). He also has a 360 but barely touches it anymore. He has an irrationale hatred of the Wii.

These days famousmortimer is playing the bejesus out of Socom: Confrontation and Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, while filling in his trophy collection with gamefly which seems to take 19 days to get the games in stock he wants. Also, one night, drunk, he decided it was a good idea to buy every single PSN game that had trophy support that he didn't already own. So now his PS3HDD is filled with a whole bunch of crap. Super acrobatic robot cars anyone?

[PlayerOneCJ]

WELCO

Holy shit it's Famousmortimer as heard of on The Fanboys Lunchcast. You're also a Mr. Show fan, I see. Good. Goooooood.

[Wenny]

METOT

[juanster]

HENEX

[Cheesecake Jones]

TLEVEL

Edited by Cheesecake Jones, 14 January 2009 - 02:37 PM.

[Cheesecake Jones]

Holy cow! Triple METOT!

[Sunflower4000]

Nice to have you. I'm not a clever one.

[dave172]

I still dont fully understand. But welcome!

[JDUB X]

I still dont fully understand. But welcome!

Genesis does what.............

[Wenny]

I still dont fully understand. But welcome!

It's an old Sega ad. Read it as a sentence, not as single lines.

[famousmortimer]

Im like 19 forms of freaked out.

[Reivax]

I recognize the name from The Fanboys. Welcome. It's not quite the same crowd as that forum, but whatcha gonna do.

[famousmortimer]

So i've been lurking here for a while now, and should post more, but don't for some reason.


I do have some questions, and an announcement, however.



First off, me and a couple friends have just launched the website: http://www.PSNerds.com

The focus is primarily downloadable games off the PSN, with reviews, news, trophy guides, etc. Between classics like PJM and SSHD, to the newer and more bizarre experiences like Flower and Noby Noby Boy, I feel like these games are turning into the Indie Rock of videogames, a backlash against the EA's of the world. And Sony seems to support them 100%, and lately have been going by the motto "the more on drugs this game seems like, the better."


So yeah, that's the site. We've been working hard on it, but still have a quite a bit of catchup work to do on the older games. Everyone's favorite Mormon, Mik, made the header at the top. So we look 1000% more professional than we actually are.




And now it is time for the question. We want to do a podcast.... but are spread out around the country. I haven't even looked into this at all, and can probably google the answers, but I figure if there was anywhere on the web that would have suggestions on how to do a videogame podcast, that this site is it. I was thinking of using something like Ventrillo or Skype, and recording from there. Is this a good way to go? Also, what programs are best to edit? Any and all suggestions on how to make this work will be awesome, and I thank ya'll in advance.


And Im going to stop lurking and start posting more. Promise.

Edited by famousmortimer, 21 February 2009 - 06:09 PM.

[JDUB X]

And now it is time for the question. We want to do a podcast.... but are spread out around the country. I haven't even looked into this at all, and can probably google the answers, but I figure if there was anywhere on the web that would have suggestions on how to do a videogame podcast, that this site is it. I was thinking of using something like Ventrillo or Skype, and recording from there. Is this a good way to go? Also, what programs are best to edit? Any and all suggestions on how to make this work will be awesome, and I thank ya'll in advance.


And Im going to stop lurking and start posting more. Promise.

From experience, both Skype and Ventrillo work for recording, but Vent is so much better for Lag and Sound quality reasons. I'm not sure about the actual editing process, Probune handles all that for us on PlayerTwo.

[I AM JOHN!]

Editing all depends on how you're handling the recording and what you're system is. If you're gonna do what Player One and a bunch of other podcasts do - everyone records themselves and there's maybe a recording of the call to cross-reference it with - you can just throw all the raws into Garage Band (which presupposes that you have a Mac, obviously) and edit that way. If you just want to record an entire call and edit from there, use Vent like JDUB suggested and throw it into Audacity or something; Probune's gonna be a bigger expert on this than myself.

Basically, the latter is easier, but can be incredibly problematic if something goes wrong, and the former is better quality-wise, but way more time-consuming.

Oh, and:

[famousmortimer]

Editing all depends on how you're handling the recording and what you're system is. If you're gonna do what Player One and a bunch of other podcasts do - everyone records themselves and there's maybe a recording of the call to cross-reference it with - you can just throw all the raws into Garage Band (which presupposes that you have a Mac, obviously) and edit that way. If you just want to record an entire call and edit from there, use Vent like JDUB suggested and throw it into Audacity or something; Probune's gonna be a bigger expert on this than myself.

Basically, the latter is easier, but can be incredibly problematic if something goes wrong, and the former is better quality-wise, but way more time-consuming.

Oh, and:

Awesome, thanks for the feedback.

[PGmighty]

Mr. FM, you're quite hilarious. I look forward to your posts and will check your new site.

[probune]

I'd say that the easiest way to record is Ventrilo, since the program handles the recording on its own and can export tracks for each separate person. And it's also better for lag, as well. However, you'd have to have a server to use, which is money.

Skype isn't a bad option though either, for simplicity's sake - you can record the call using software like Call Graph, which is free, or Pamela Call Recorder, which is not free. Or you can do the "everyone records themselves" thing but you have to make sure everyone sets their sample rate and bit depth to the same thing (44.1 kHz and 16 bit is standard - if you go any lower than either of those values, things will sound bad. And going higher will just waste space and not sound much better for radio specifically).

Personally I couldn't sync the tracks right when I tried it but that's before I started studying to become an audio engineer a couple of months ago, so I probably did everything wrong.