1. You got questions? We got answers! First, here's what the buttons mean:
This button opens a second window and launches an
online podcast player
courtesy of Jeroen Wijering. You can play each
episode right in your browser
by clicking on the name of the program listed in
the player.
This button links directly
to the ÒXMLÓ for the podcast feed.
You can drag this
button to your favorite
RSS aggregator to subscribe to the podcast.
This button opens iTunes (if you have it
installed on your computer) and
subscribes you to the Schnauzer
Logic podcast.
This button opens a
low-bitrate (24kbps for you tech-types) Shoutcast
stream
of the latest episode of
Schnauzer Logic. This allows you to listen to the program,
in real time, if youĠre on a
dial-up/slow-speed connection.
This button opens a
second window and takes you to PayPal where you can
make a donation. WeĠre not looking to make money (well,
Parviz is), but support
in –any- size to help
defray our server, ISP and equipment costs is most certainly
appreciated.
This button opens
your mail program and pre-address an email for you to
send us your comments and
questions.
2. Show Schedule: The program currently runs about 120
minutes for each episode.
We go into the studio every
Wednesday afternoon, about 5pm PST, and record the
show. It then takes a few more hours to edit
out the mistakes (mostly Parviz), do
the encoding and then
upload the whole mess onto our .mac server account.
While the files are being
uploaded, we update the blog and create the low-bitrate
version of the show for
the Shoutcast stream.
3. Equipment: For those who are interested, the entire program, from start
to finish,
is produced on a Mac (a
couple, actually). Robin is on an Audio Technia AT4033a mic,
Parviz is on an AKG-C3000,
and Sean is on a Shure SM58. These
get routed into a
Mackie 1402VLZ mixer. We also run a Gentner G3200 Digital Hybrid
into the board from
our phone line, and all the
music, sound effects, liners, bits, etc. are run into the board
from an older white iBook.
(We do our multi-track production
using SoundTrack Pro.)
The output of the mixer is
then fed into a dbx compressor/ gate, and the output of
the dbx goes into a
PowerMac tower. We record the
program using Audio Hijack
Pro from Rogue Amoeba,
then edit the program using Bias Peak.
The final edited
file is then encoded as an
80kpbs mono mp3 file using iTunes, and we then
publish the podcast for distribution
using Podcast Maker from Potion Factor.
Then we eat, drink and
take a nap.
4. Other Questions:
Any other points that should be covered, let us know and weĠll
add them in!
And now you know what you
didnĠt know when you didnĠt know what you knew!