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Photos from the PEL In-Person Episode

September 10, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer 14 Comments

The four podcastersOK, folks, here are the photos my wife took during our Voltaire recording. The above is, from left to right, Seth, Dylan, Mark and Wes.

We were parked in my cluttered basement where I do my recording, with me on my usual setup:
Mark

...And the other guys lined up on a short table sitting to my right.
Seth, Dylan, and Wes

I had been looking forward to this episode from a technical standpoint, as at least I would have full control over all the mics, but it was actually more difficult to make sense of after the fact, because all of us (including me) exhibited really terrible mic technique, as you can tell by how far Dylan and Wes are here from the mics. This meant that, e.g. Dylan was nearly as loud as Wes on Wes's mic, which made it tricky to mix. Also, all the track volumes were very low, so I had to digitally turn them up. In the case of Wes's mic, which had a nasty ground hum on it (i.e. a buzzing noise) from about 5 to 30 min into the recording, I had to apply my noise reduction plugin enough that he sounded fully as bad for that part of the show as if he'd been at home during one of our earlier episodes using a low-quality headset mic.
Dylan & Wes

This was of course made up for by the spirit of the room. Here's the infamous "slap" noted in the audio, after which all the rest of these pictures were taken.
The slap!

One bonus to us all being in the same room is that Seth was able to give us verbal cues that he wanted to talk, whereas normally he waits for silences that don't come.
Seth

However, the thing went maybe shorter than we'd planned (we had maybe 2 hrs of footage before editing, whereas we normally have three or more) because earlier in the evening we opened a group bank account, which ended up taking hours, and then went to dinner, which also took a while. All this was on a day where Wes and Seth had been traveling, Dylan would be leaving to drive many hours to Michigan early the next day, and Wes and Mark were both in a long business meeting for our day jobs (which was the reason for him traveling to Madison in the first place, which sparked this whole effort), meaning we'd been connected and conversing more or less continuously for 8 hours or so prior to the recording. So, we started pretty late, and couldn't really go deep into the night, and were mostly on the tired side. Despite that, it was a heap of fun, and we'll surely do it again some time.
Seth & Mark

-Mark Linsenmayer

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Comments

  1. Wayne Schroeder says

    September 11, 2012 at 12:32 am

    Good to see the brilliance behind the faces 🙂

    Reply
  2. Jack says

    September 11, 2012 at 9:27 am

    You guys look great, but you don’t look anything like the philosophy dudes who live inside my head. Is there anything that can be done about that on your end? Thanks! Looking forward to listening to this one.

    Reply
  3. Stanley says

    September 11, 2012 at 9:43 am

    What, no coat and tie? Where are the beards? The pipes? The wood panneling? How can one do philosophy without some tweed at least?

    Reply
  4. Craig says

    September 11, 2012 at 11:01 am

    Actually, I think they look exactly like what I expected, at least based on the cartoon picture:

    http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/wp-content/uploads/4HostCaricatures_740px.jpg

    Reply
  5. David Buchanan says

    September 11, 2012 at 11:10 am

    I can’t wait to see how Lucy Lawless reacts to these photos.

    Reply
  6. Adam Mossbottom says

    September 11, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    A note on the audio engineering, Mark: the noise gates you are using on the tracks could use another 50-100ms of release time, so that the track doesn’t unnaturally dip into silence when a speaker takes a brief pause between words.

    Reply
    • Adam Mossbottom says

      September 11, 2012 at 6:09 pm

      Scratch that, reverse it- I meant to say attack time.

      Reply
  7. RW says

    September 13, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Seth needs his own Jeopardy-style buzzer he can push when he wants to talk. Also, the rest of you need to stop interrupting him when he is talking! It doesn’t happen very often, but I have still noticed it in recent episodes.

    Reply
  8. Russ Baker says

    September 13, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    It does my heart good to see you guys together and clearly having a great time. May this moment never leave you.

    Reply
  9. Comment1 says

    September 15, 2012 at 9:37 am

    I’m quite surprised at Seth, he looks like a nice, fun guy who sometimes kills people when they make him angry. You should definitely give him a Jeopardy-style buzzer, just in case.

    Reply
  10. Anh-vu Doan says

    September 16, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    You guys look like you had a ton of fun together. I look forward to the next “live” episode, because I could definitely hear the energy, despite your tired state.

    Reply
  11. Laura says

    September 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    You all look exactly as you sound.

    Reply
  12. Rune Lauritzen says

    September 18, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Mark looks EXACTLY like I imagined!

    Reply
  13. Adam says

    September 25, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    Damn that Seth is a handsome fellow!

    Reply

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