Podcast #6: Avatar and More

Erik and I did a pile of podcasts in January, and it’s taking me a while to edit them. However, I couldn’t let Avatar hit shelves without posting Erik’s thoughts on it and several other films (then in theaters, now on DVD).

Discussed in this podcast:

 

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Podcast #5 is up…and it’s still 2009!

I promised Erik Burnham that I would have all of our older recordings published before the end of 2009… and I have 1/2 hour left to make that promise KEPT. This one’s less than 10 minutes long. Just a brief recording that wasn’t worth throwing out, despite some audio problems, because I relate to Erik an old TV Special that I enjoyed.

I don’t even have any Amazon links for this one, because sadly enough, it was never released on video.

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Batman Movies, Part 3

Tune in for our third and final Batman podcast, sponsored by TooManyLongboxes.com. No, we’re not doing the podcast quarterly! We now have better equipment and will turn them around much faster. Here is the last of the three Batman podcasts that I recorded in January with Erik Burnham.  The sound is improved, but after this one they should all sound as good as my introduction to this third installment.

 

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Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
What’s Next?

In case you missed them:

Batman movies podcast Part 1
Batman movies podcast Part 2

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Podcast coming!

I’m leaving to pick up my wife while this huge MP3 is being produced.  When I get back, this will go live.

Finally!

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Hulk smash technical problems! Rar!

Even before the release of our first podcast, I ran into technical problems with my microphone.  I simply could not get my front microphone plug to work.  That’s why I had to end that installment with a clip from the old Batman show.  Parts 2 and 3 have languished while I’ve tried to resolve this issue.  I finally dragged my desk away from the wall, climbed back there and re-plugged all of the audio plugs while my wife ran the SoundMax menu confirming which plug is being plugged in.

I think what happened is that the pink (microphone) plug was being erroneously used in the back end, and when there’s something plugged in the rear microphone jack, the front one is ignored.  So I pushed the desk back against the wall, tried the front microphone jack, and voila, I can finally record!

Except, now there’s no audio to my headphones.  Oh, and no sound to any of my surround sound speakers, just the front ones.  Agh.

Tonight, I finally got it to work?  Want to know how?   This will totally make sense.  I researched the problem and discovered…I swear, this is so logical, I don’t know how I couldn’t figure it out myself…I discovered…

…that if you want to use the headphone jack on the front of the computer, you should NOT…that is, NOT…have selected “Independent Front Headphones” in the SoundMax options menu.  If you select the option to use Independent Front Microphones, this has the effect of muting the sound from the jack in the front.  And I only find this out when I Google for the answer and find someone else detailing the same problem:

Selecting the option SoundMAX Control Panel | Preferences | Independent Front Headphones sounds like it would work, but all this seems to do is mute the output on the front jacks.

Tonight, I turned off the “Independent Front Headphones”… which has the effect of allowing me to use Independent Front Headphones.  Good job, SoundMax!

Tomorrow, I’ll put the finishing touches on the next podcast.  Again, apologies to Erik Burnham for the delays.

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Tune in “tomorrow”?

Just so there’s no misunderstanding: I ended the podcast with the Batman announcer saying “tune in tomorrow”, but it will be a day or two before the next podcast.  I still haven’t resolved the microphone problem.

Plus, I’m going to a midnight showing of Watchmen, and I’ll be posting my review after that.  Probably a quickie review.

I’m going to sleep now so I can watch a 150 minute movie at midnight.

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Why no podcast yet?

Simple.

Can’t get my microphone to work.

Sorry, folks.   Tuesday?

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