On this sleek episode, we stretch the legs on our new mixer, battling poorly designed manuals and strange interfaces to bring you a better sound experience. On the Tech Top 3, we discuss how the Telcos just can’t shake the image that they enjoy raping their customers, how Diebold (a major manufacturer of ATMs) is at the center of a maelstrom of crappitude involving their infamous voting machines, and how Sony might be foisting off bad batteries on Dell and Apple. On the Gaming Table, in what is sure to enrage the Yeti, we discuss how Settlers of Cataan and Carcassonne are coming to XBOX Live, and how Dan the Automator is producing the soundtrack for NBA:2K7. We also mention an upcoming new segment from our new podcast contributor and cool blogger Greg Howley. Finally, on Boston in Brief, we talk about dames on skates, and the hotness that entails.
Download this episode (16.6 MB , 36:19)
Show Notes:
- Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest, Take The Money and Run
- Die, Diebold, Die!
- Sony Says, “Our Batteries are Just Fine”
- Cool Games Come to XBOX Live!
- Dan the Automator Presents: 2K7
- Boston Derby Dames
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Surprising that Qworst isn’t jacking up pricing. VZ is full of baloney, they lose money on every single ADSL line they sell, regardless if it’s a VZ line-shared or a stand-alone circuit. To keep on charging customers more under the guise of “it’s to support a service you don’t have but we lose money on even though we offered it willingly” is a joke.
The music production geek in me wants to know, what’s the new mixer???
Alesis MultiMix 8 FireWire.
We bought it for a few reasons, not least of which was we could finally afford it.
Beyond that, though, it allows discrete track output over firewire to Colin’s Mac, so we can record (and subsequently tweak, if necessary) our voices separately. Also, we had kind of outgrown our old Behringer, and needed more mic inputs.
Ah I hate you guys. That thing came out *right* after I bought my Firebox that I use for my One Winged Angel stuff, since I needed phantom power for my condenser mics. The Alesis USB boards were out, but wouldn’t do the job for me since they could only send the stereo mix, not the individual tracks. And I definitely couldn’t afford any of the Mackie boards. So I bought the Firebox, then months later the MultiMix firewire boards come out.
Damn technology.
Ya, it is an amazing deal considering what it does. And, was so simple to get working with garageband.
I bet if you had waited another month, Behringer would’ve released their knockoff that would’ve been half the price
Behringer is crap. The most unreliable shit ever. And sounds like piss too. Their business practices give new meaning to the term “shady.” Colin and Carl were right to buy the Alesis.
This show was a lot tighter than the next two shows are — I like it. The sound is great too.
[4:58] Yeah, Carl’s a punk, and not in a good way.
[10:40] Carl, c’mon, do some research man. All you have to do is clickity-click http://blackboxvoting.org and you could have given us concrete facts about the prior Diebold scandals. Oh yeah, and, Diebold makes insecure voting machines.
Are you implying that my podcast appearence was not “tight”?