tankasnowgod
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I agree. In my opinion, I do not think people should waste their and other peoples time trying to be a podcaster when they lack the basic ability or care to get the essentials like audio set up correctly first. And especially with the cheap mics and audio equipment available which offers very good audio, there really should be no excuse for people to still offer bad quality podcasts/audio. If they tested the audio beforehand then this would be prevented as well, for the most part. You'd expect these things would be common sense by now. It's like attempting to sell concert tickets to your concert as a professional pianist while not being an actual professional pianist or knowing how to play. Very infuriating.
Here's the thing.... she DOES have good audio. She has been uploading videos for some time now, and if you go back and take even a cursory look at her videos, she has great quality. Now, having a discussion with a phone caller..... different story. I don't think she's done too many of those, doesn't appear any before Ray Peat and Georgi. And that's really tricky. Most people are used to "radio quality" when having interviews with phoners, but most don't realize the equipment that radio stations have to make the phone caller and in studio host both sound good. That sort of equipment isn't available to your average podcaster, not at low expense at any rate.
So it's really not a shock that the first two interviews she did over the phone didn't sound top notch. As someone who used to do some podcasts myself (never with phoners), I know the audio quality improved dramatically as the months went on. It's a lot easier to get great quality with something like Skype, which she appears to have done in her second interview with haidut.
It's clear that Jodelle does put both time and money into the audio (and video)quality. You are basically criticizing her for not having the knowledge and equipment of radio engineers on the first two phoner interviews she ever did.