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laserprinter · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

This fairly new podcast consists of an American and a Canadian shootin' the breeze about news and life in Korea, with side notes for America and Canada. It is both humorous and informative. Check it out!

http://thefortyspiritpodcast.mevio.com/#show-nowplaying

iTunes link is: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=349879823

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Cool. A few pointers:

1. Mevio is killing your open with an audio/video commercial to the right of the page (I bet you know this by now). Try Vimeo or You-Tube. I was planning to You-tube mine, but am too busy these days with pre-baby workaholic-ness.

2. You should record your friend through Skype using a program called Pamela, for example. The free version only records a short time. Paid records longer. There are probably other programs out there, too.

3. Shorter is better (in my opinion). Depends on the topics, really.

laserprinter · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Hey thanks for the feedback! There are 5 episodes there.

1. Actually I think the 'ad' you are talking about is our intro. We just moved to Mevio so I'd consider another place later.

2. Interesting I haven't heard of Pamela. The sound quality is a little bit poor specifically for my audio on the Doughtnut Toss because of the acoustics in my room. We don't usually record over skype, but in person.

3. The first few episodes were shorter, about 40 mins, I'll try to cut it down.

Thanks! We put out a new show every Monday.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

How are you recording the audio, exactly? Describe your set-up.

laserprinter · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Most podcasts we both speak into the same laptop microphone using 'sound recorder.' Frankly, I think it sounds fine. Just the most recent episode, The Doughnut Toss, we were Skyping so I was speaking into my laptop microphone. The acoustics in my room are not great for sound because the sounds bounce around the room due to lack of furniture and my acoustic guitar. The only money we've spent is on beer and soju. I'm thinking of buying a headset but it's hard to choose one.

Still, with his laptop mic I think the sound is fine and I think the content is pretty good. People like to hear stories.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

A 10,000 won LG headset I have produces some really nice sound.