Jon Westfall and I recorded this podcast using Google Meet’s recording feature for the first time. Although its audio quality is quite good, I post-processed the audio using Adobe Podcast Enhance. You can see/hear an A/B test in the embedded YouTube clip below.
In this podcast, we discuss:
Gaining Google Meet recording feature after upgrading to the Google One 2TB subscription tier
Thoughts about starting to publish short video podcast segments
Paul Lawler helped me test using Google Meet to record a podcast using its built-in recording feature. It was supposed to be a 3 to 5 minute effort. Unfortunately, one of the extensions in Google Chrome blocked video from me and audio from Paul to me. Fortunately, it occured to me to run Google Meet in a Chrome Incognito window which would not have any extensions. This worked. However, we noticed well into the mini-podcast recording session that Paul’s video was not transmitting. This was fixed by his turnng video on his end off and then back on.
This was not exactly a frictionless exercise. Fortunately, it was a valuable learning exercise. We also discussed the friction involved in using Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Apple Facetime, Descript, Riverside.fm, and Adobe Podcast Studio beta to record podcasts with remote participants.
Both the audio-only podcast (above) and the YouTube video (below) versions are embedded here.
In this mini-podcast I’m joined by frequent guest co-host Paul Lawler. We recorded this in-person in a busy restaurant named “Loco Moco” while eating lunch to test the Maono wireless lavalier microphone pair with a USB-C receiver. This mic set has built-in noise reduction which I augmented by post-processing it using Adobe Podcast Enhance set at 50% enhancement. Also included/spliced in are a few seconds of raw audio from a standalone voice recorder to give an idea of the ambient noise level in the restaurant during the podcasting session.
Paul (an avid amateur astronomer) provides information about the upcoming total eclipse on April 8, 2024 and the unfortunate news that we, in Hawaii, will not see much of this eclipse (17% obscuration). We also discuss some of his recent 3D printing efforts. One of his projects, an old style UK Police Box, bears a strong resemblance to an important object in one of our mutual favorite TV series: the BBC’s Doctor Who.