Pulling Back the Curtain

Well, I’m sorry to say that I’m not much of a podcast listener to begin with and also, I haven’t had a functioning internet for the past week so it was a bit difficult to find free time with finals coming quickly and other work. On Pulling Back the Curtain, I wasn’t too surprised to find out that they edit the radio speeches/interviews because there are very few people on the air that speak perfectly without any phrases that can/should be deleted from the interview. It’s more of a happy note, I would say, that they don’t try and turn people into “idiots” on the air and twist their words to make them sound like they aren’t saying what everyone wants to hear. It’s impressive that the editing can be done so quickly. I would also like to hear how some celeberties actually speak on the radio. It would be interesting to see how many “likes” and “umms” are used in their everyday speak.

I wasn’t able to listen to a podcast but I have listened to podcasts recently so I will talk about those. I listened to podcasts on the Secret Behind the Da Vinci Code. They are very well spoken, very clear voices and minimal music because the podcast was primarily used for explaining, similar to a lecture. I can imagine that some editing was used but because the man speaking knows the subject inside and out so it would seem that there would be very little information needed to be edited. Personally, when a subject matter comes up where I must talk about it infront of an audience, if I KNOW the subject, then I have no problem speaking. If it is something I recently researched, I’m not as confident.

I’ve also listened to Comedy Central Podcasts. Those are more for amusement to get a comedian’s name out there. They still have a very good quality of sound for the podcast, especially when the sound is coming from a microphone on a stage. It is pretty interesting that technology can fix just about anything when it comes to another form of media/technology. There may have been added laughter for less comical jokes but its still overall a good podcast.

Many other podcasts that my friends have done by using microphones are terrible compared to professionally edited. For example, the “scratchy” sound of a microphone when you are too close to the mic . It sounds pretty bad because you personally don’t know what the mic will pick up from your voice so you make sure everything is heard. It’s difficult, without the expensive technology that radio stations have, to make a quality sound.