I just wanted to leave a quick note to apologize for the delays in releasing my awesome interview with Grammy Award nominated drummer, Jake Najor. It's my bad - I didn't pay attention to the input for the mic when I started recording, naively assuming it would just automatically pick the good mic.....but it went with the mic with my headphones....which I love, and can't seem to replace (I have an unwanted collection now) though they are falling apart and apparently have a lousy mic. My recording sounded muffled.
The good folks at Riverside gave it a look, Desmond, my producer/magician spent free moments that he had over the course of a week to try and fix it as best he could. I then had this idea that since all the audio tracks were recorded separate, I could just read the transcript and re-record mine since Jake's and Desmond's audios were perfect - because, well, they are professionals! So I recorded it and slid it in to replace my original audio. It sounded perfect! Desmond worked hard....again! and for free! But I hated the new version.
I decided to talk to Jake and tell him what happened. I said we could go with the new recording and no one would know, but I would know and I didn't like it because it didn't feel authentic. I told Desmond I'd rather have a podcast with annoying audio issues over one that wasn't authentic. Jake, of course, was so rad and so awesome and fully got how I was feeling and so he was down to have another chat....but he had to fly to a gig first. So although I recorded Jake 2nd, he's been pushed back to EP4.
This meant I could push up my episode with my long time friend, Alex Nylund. I've known Alex since I was 13 and he was the person who I shared all the new music I was discovering with. He was also my neighbor, so we had lots of walks home from school sharing the Walkman headphones, listening to the latest tapes we got. He was the only other person I knew at the time who'd heard of or even liked bands like Depeche Mode or The Smiths. And that's the cool thing about people that dig music....it doesn't change.....unfortunately, I've thrice now did something weird with the mic and Desmond is currently working on it.....it's a wonder he continues to help!
I hope you enjoy the episode! xx LV
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