In which Eddy and Dixie talk to Danielle about vampires and pirates and networking, oh my!
- The transition to Requiem line developer
- What’s cool about Requiem
- Working as line developer for 7th Sea
- Origin via neuroscience and LiveJournal
- Networking advice
- How Danielle trains new writers
- The industry is mainly contractors
- The struggle with turning down work
- How mentally draining creative work is
- Capitalizing words
- Trinity Core, Dystopia Rising, and the evolution of Storypath
- Working with Choice of Games
- Eddy ends up being awkward, again
- Vampire the Requiem 2nd Edition: http://drivethrurpg.com/product/123898/Vampire-The-Requiem-2nd-Edition
- 7th Sea 2nd Edition: http://7thsea.com/
- Trinity Continuum: https://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/trinitycontinuum/
- Dystopia Rising: https://www.dystopiarising.com/
- Choice of Games: https://www.choiceofgames.com/
- More of Danielle’s work: http://drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?x=0&y=0&author=Danielle%20Lauzon
Comments
5 responses to “Episode Ten: Interview with a Vampire (or Danielle)”
Wait did you guys forget to make wrestling reference?
Oh no we might have!
Great episode!
I listened to it via not-compressing earphones and in your lively conversation you moved a lot relative to the microphone.
However since the earphones were not compressing I couldn’t turn up the volume to enjoy the episode fully, as sometimes you would be too loud then.
Maybe you could use a limiter to smooth the volume throughout the episode.
Here is the manual for Audacity (free / open source audio editor):
https://ttmanual.audacityteam.org/o/man/hard_limiter.html
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/limiter.html
Have a nice day!
Yup, I use Audacity on just about every episode (didn’t on the first few), and I normalize once I’m done editing. Danielle’s volume did fluxuate a fair bit, but there’s only so much I can do without spending hours trying to smooth out every instance (which, honestly, I don’t have time to do). Thanks, though! 🙂
Dear Mr. Webb,
“normalize” takes the loudest sound and sets it to 0dba (or 100% digital loudness). And thank you for doing that, very much appreciated!
The limiter function makes every sound in the whole file louder but limits this with 0dba.
The effect is called “compression”: You remove volume variance (like Danielle’s fluctuations) as loud tones can’t get louder, but quiet tones will.
It’s a quick fix for talk-recordings, but would destroy a classical music performance, where you want the variance in amplitude.
Usually after you found your favorite setting with the limiter it’s a single-click issue for the next podcasts.
If you want to, you can contact me for further information, or if you want to I could try to find limiter settings for that episode and share them with you.
With kind regards from Austria,
Philipp
scaenicus@gmx.net