Ok, so now a year has passed since the first episode of this, and still no 2nd episode has happened.
I do have some ideas, but it's been a struggle to figure out just what to do with this youtube channel idea. Add to that a cross country move and huge changes in my life this past year, and it's been easy to push this off to deal with "later".
At some point before the move, I did attempt to record a 2nd episode reviewing an album. And what I found out is, I'm not good at that. It came off awkward, and not very informative.
Also, I figured out that it turns out youtube does not support 5.1 surround playback. They do support 5.1 sound in material you upload.....which they then encode to their format, which only includes stereo, so you can make an episode in 5.1, and post that 5.1 file, but it won't actually be posted in 5.1. So, I can't even include proper 5.1 in album reviews.
I've recently been playing around with a surround master, hoping to put together a shoot out and blind test of some sort with that, but have been struggling to put together a good, fair test. I might discuss that some on the next episode, but I'm still struggling to get a proper test together that I feel is fair and accurate. But, that is definitely coming, and will certainly be featured in upcoming episodes.
I guess I've been struggling with dealing with the pre-recorded format of the show, and coming up with interesting material that will be relevant. Album reviews seem boring to me, and going into technical things is likely covering things much of us know or information that's already here. But...I dunno....maybe not everything is known, or maybe starting with the basics is where I need to start. So, I've been thinking, maybe I ought to set a time, do an episode live, grab a Q8 deck, and discuss Q8 playback, and preservation.
So, if I don't set a time, this will never happen. So, tomorrow, Saturday, I intend to do a live Quadcast on the youtube channel. If you miss it, that's fine, once the show is done it's automatically archived on the channel for playback whenever. I'll start the show tomorrow night at 8pm EST. I'm not sure how long it will go, it could just be a less than an hour review of Q8 playback and preserving. But, skype will be up, I'll be keeping my eye on the twitter account, so certainly all are welcome to interact with the show live, and if things get interesting, it certainly is possible for a show to go for hours. Not sure how I'll deal with that afterwards though because multiple hour episodes aren't exactly time friendly for those that want to check it out later.....maybe I'll make edited podcast versions of long episodes to give others a highlights version....I dunno....but, I got to do something , or nothing will ever happen with this channel, so tomorrow 8pm I'm connecting live, and seeing what happens.
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