Adam Stacoviak: Yeah, where do I start? Well, we get some people together… I’m just kidding. I think this show is a little bit different than other shows. For example, I’ll compare it against the Changelog. That show is sort of like a two-on-one or a one-on-one kind of scenario where it’s more conversational, where this one is kind of like that, but it’s more panelist conversational.

We also don’t do that show live, so it’s… I don’t think we can get the same kind of conversation if the show was live. When you do a show live like GoTime, you kind of have to inherit some things like, well, people are gonna be hanging out on Slack, and that’s part of the show. It may not end up in the show, but it reflects and helps give the show some attributes and attitude, so to speak. You can tell a live show versus a non-live show.

We just figured with GoTime it would be best to start doing it live, and that’s one big thing. So the way we do that, I guess the technical pieces of that - we have a web service called WaveStreamer, and we point Nicecast to it, and we just broadcast everybody here to that. That’s the easiest way to describe that.

It works… I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite way of doing it, but it does work and it’s been reliable. We only had one issue, and it was a user error (my error). The time we had those live issues, it was not tech fault, it was Adam’s fault… I was an idiot.

[01:03:48.01] We have a pretty interesting setup here though. We have a tower that is about 21U’s - I don’t know why it’s 21 and not 20, but whatever… 21U’s, a multichannel interface, four Mac minis which act as individual Skype machines, and basically Erik, Brian, Carlisia and the guest tend to hang out on those four individual machines, each one to its own machine; that gets plugged into the audio interface, which then goes into the Mac Pro, which then gets tracked to whatever DAW I’m using… A DAW is a Digital Audio Workstation. I use Adobe Audition - it’s my preferred one, because I love JKL, long story short. What else..

We track it into there, it’s multichannel, so I’m in my own channel; Erik, Brian and Carlisia - they’re in their own channels, so I can independently move around the timeline and make edits, and independently EQ or level each individual guest. That’s why it’s a little easier having crappier mics. Most of our guests don’t have professional mic’s like we all do. They tend to be whatever headsets. You make that better by isolating it to its own channel, and you can then finetune it. Now, you can’t correct it to make it a better mic, but it’s one way we combat having bad sounding shows, by this process.

There’s other ways to do podcasting. There’s services out there that do some of this stuff… We’ve been educated what those services are and how they work and how they’re better, but this is how we do it and this is how we like it… So there you go. That’s pretty much it… What else can I share? What do you think?