In the first episode of our Autumn series, I bring you the best I could do with the difficult recording I made at the L.I. Who convention on 25 August, 2024. When I recorded the episode, about half-way through, I noticed that the pickup mic wasn’t on and so the only audio being recorded was from the microphone next to Cat and myself. Consequently, the raw recording has Lawrence Neals, returning guest Alex Boruff, and Cat’s daughter Gracie practically silent. I tried to use Final Cut Pro to amplify our guests voices, but it was limited to only 12 dB gain. However, since Zoom records both video with audio and audio by itself, I used Audacity to amplify all the quiet sections by up to 20 dB and the normalize the audio to remove any of the pops. This is probably the best I can do without some Peter Jackson type AI Audio jiggery-pokery.
In part 1, we describe our podcast to our guests and have them each introduce themselves. Thanks again for your patience with the sound quality and we hope you can take one more episode as we bring you part 2, next week.