Reply 20 of 26, by xjas
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Welp, I think that episode went well! In terms of gameplay/being interesting and video quality at least. We managed a 6-in-one: Arvoesine, Edge of the Planet, Seven Minutes, ROM Check Fail, Battle Girl, and Out There Somewhere - all titles I really wanted to cover but too short to do on their own. As usual, you can watch the saved broadcast for 14 days but I'll probably highlight it before it "expires". (Also, I had an UTTER brainfart when talking about the devs behind Out There Somewhere - they worked on something huge afterwards, which I absolutely knew about. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out what it was.)
Still not happy with the audio quality, but that was partly my fault for boosting it for one of the quieter games & forgetting to turn it back down 😠 after carefully levelling everything before going live. One change I'm making is I'm going to put OBS on its own monitor so I can see where things are peaking without alt+tabbing around (actually I'm moving Twitch chat to a separate netbook entirely which frees up a monitor for OBS, but never mind the details.)
I'm honestly not sure why I'm getting such poor results out of my mic. I'm using a decent over-ear mic (Shure WH20) running through a Tascam US-122 Mk.II which has proper mic preamps. It just seems like I can't get the volume levels out of it I want, and if I boost it too much in software, I get a bunch of crunchy noise at the bottom like you can hear in this episode. I tried running the mic through a DI box (ART Dual-Z Direct) but that attenuates the signal even further and I can't tell if it does anything for the noise.
If any of you have any suggestions for getting better recordings out of this setup, I'm all hears. I'm reluctant to switch to a desktop mic because then I'd have to wear headphones or risk having it pick up ambient/game audio.
NEXT EPISODE (Thursday aka tomorrow @ 1PDT) we're gonna tackle a game that's been a LONG time coming on my stream: Space Station Oblivion ('Driller' in some markets/platforms) which is best described as 1987's Crysis. As far as I can tell there is no long-play (of the DOS version) online yet, so we're gonna make one & maybe a little bit of history in the process. I have a pages of notes, I have a walkthrough, and I've already beaten the game, so I'm as ready as I'm gonna be. If we get through it in enough time, we'll also take a look at a bunch of other games based on the same engine, including one that originated on this very forum. Hope to see you all there!
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