Ren - Thanks for the feedback! I've used my Samson C01U microphone for years... and this is the first time I realized that it's a mono microphone. It just never came up :-) With the simple recording apps I used, and no editing, yep, it's mono. (For playback, I used my laptop speakers so didn't quite notice that it was only the left channel. As soon as I used earbuds, yep - there it was.)
I did some research (I'm very, very new to podcasting), and while I could transmogrify the mono track into (identical) stereo tracks, it's simpler to use my bigger, but stereo-capable Blue Yeti microphone to create a real stereo recording, which I'll do for future recordings.
My interest in podcasts is limited: I can read several times faster than understand spoken text. Additionally I can jump around in written text - forward and back. I am on Youtube quite a lot, because pictures often add value to plain text. Even there I can easily jump around. But this is not to propose that Zero Retries should go this route.
Alexander - Have no fear, Zero Retries will remain "text-first" 😄 Like you, I'm primarily a reader, but audio (podcasts) and video (YouTube) can add some value beyond text.
As you'll hear and read in the Zero Retries 0098 Podcast, there was an obscure setting in the Mac that caused the imbalance between the (normal) left channel and (too low) right channel. For the Mac curious, in the App folder, in the Utilities, there's an app called Audio MIDI Setup. The microphone's entry in that utility was set to Stereo and that was apparently interfering with the normal functioning of audio recording apps "recognizing" that my Samson M01U microphone was a mono microphone, and automatically mirroring the left channel to the right channel. After I changed that setting to Mono, the audio recording apps operated normally (left and right channels were matched). My thanks to Aaron at Rogue Amoeba software for helping me figure that out. If you want a reliable, basic audio recording app, Piezo is a good one - recommended. (I'm a paid user, my recommendation is not a paid endorsement.)
Steve, I'm only hearing the 'left' channel. Listening using the weblink at www.zeroretries.org on Safari 16.4.1 on MacOS BigSur 11.7.7 as a datapoint.
Ren K7JB--
Ren - Thanks for the feedback! I've used my Samson C01U microphone for years... and this is the first time I realized that it's a mono microphone. It just never came up :-) With the simple recording apps I used, and no editing, yep, it's mono. (For playback, I used my laptop speakers so didn't quite notice that it was only the left channel. As soon as I used earbuds, yep - there it was.)
I did some research (I'm very, very new to podcasting), and while I could transmogrify the mono track into (identical) stereo tracks, it's simpler to use my bigger, but stereo-capable Blue Yeti microphone to create a real stereo recording, which I'll do for future recordings.
I wanted to comment as Ren did. Ubuntu, Firefox.
My interest in podcasts is limited: I can read several times faster than understand spoken text. Additionally I can jump around in written text - forward and back. I am on Youtube quite a lot, because pictures often add value to plain text. Even there I can easily jump around. But this is not to propose that Zero Retries should go this route.
Alexander - Have no fear, Zero Retries will remain "text-first" 😄 Like you, I'm primarily a reader, but audio (podcasts) and video (YouTube) can add some value beyond text.
I like the podcast format. It allows me to listen to ZR while driving. Keep up the great work!
K7IP - Thank you for your kind words about Zero Retries.
As you'll hear and read in the Zero Retries 0098 Podcast, there was an obscure setting in the Mac that caused the imbalance between the (normal) left channel and (too low) right channel. For the Mac curious, in the App folder, in the Utilities, there's an app called Audio MIDI Setup. The microphone's entry in that utility was set to Stereo and that was apparently interfering with the normal functioning of audio recording apps "recognizing" that my Samson M01U microphone was a mono microphone, and automatically mirroring the left channel to the right channel. After I changed that setting to Mono, the audio recording apps operated normally (left and right channels were matched). My thanks to Aaron at Rogue Amoeba software for helping me figure that out. If you want a reliable, basic audio recording app, Piezo is a good one - recommended. (I'm a paid user, my recommendation is not a paid endorsement.)