Please, oh please, do something about the clipping. If you screwed up in the recording, it's called POST PRODUCTION, people!

Clipping is something that cannot be fixed in post. What is beyond 100% in digital audio is gone. Analog could be run to + 5 or + 10 and be used. In digital it is gone as what is captured is all that is captured. You cannot create something out of conspicuous absence. Go look at Rise of the Machines. Considering those stories, do you really want to try to extrapolate stuff?

If you want an engineering production team, such is available for contract work.

(Posted by both members of the LISNews Podcast production team)

clipping is chopping the tops off the signal. You cannot recreate it after the fact, if it is bad enough to be audible, any more than you can magically recreate data that you have no backup of.

problem with recording audio and speech expecially is that levels can easily vary by 20dB or so, so you need lots of headroom when you set levels - if you set the record level so that you peak at say -20 to -30dB, you *should* be OK, but of course people might get excited when you do the show, or whatever. Old style analogue tape recording was much more forgiving in this respect, you can easily go into the red and some even think it sounds better!

best way is to get a decent compressor/limiter and find out how to set it up so that the analogue signal is prevented from getting into distortion before the converters even see it. It still amazes me that these aren't integrated into digital recorders as standard. (Roland/Edirol do on some of their low end USB converter units)

Or, I have an old Sony Pro Walkman you could buy ... :-)

(another old sound engineering type that now does IT for a living ... )

human voice, 300-3500hz? so unless someone in the studio has a very squeaky voice you should be able to survive with 2756.25.. ) which would give you at least 8 samples to work with.. unless your clipping is through the roof you should be able to make it listeneable at least. Anyone know of a audio program with a good declipping function?

"Clipping is something that cannot be fixed in post." While it's not possible to replace lost data in general, it's certainly possible to lessen the aesthetic effects of clipping in post. It's those sharp corners in the waveform that hurt the ears.

(Posted by the 2,480 members of the Coalition for the Lessening of Intense Pain.)

Roll off the high frequencies with a filter, then put an exciter or similar afterwards to give the impression of high frequencies. Will hiss instead of clip, but our ears don't mind that so much. Good luck.

I like this episode very much, the only one I listened start to finish, even emailed it to friends.

I wish Patrick Byrne the best of luck in his endeavors. I find we have very similar attitude torwards life.

I didn't notice anything annoying in fact it seemed one of the better episodes in terms of audio quality, but then it could just be the way I listen (speakers not headphones ) or the format og though I can't see how that could be.

What an amazing interview, there is enough material there to keep a journalist in pop-tarts and bottled water for a long time. Nicely done.

They all sit down at the bar. The monk says to Warren Buffett: Silence and abstention from earthly goals are the key to enlightenment. Buffet says - Indeed; I speak very little and still live in a modest dwelling.

Then the Russian mobster shoots both of them and leaves.

"I count several wrigglers and escorts among my friends, consider these women finer human beings than the average denizen of Wall Street, and would have no objection to hiring any of them"

Unless they are repentant about their past, I'd be very wary of hiring someone who has shown that they will do absolutely anything for money to any position of importance. I'm sure they are "resourceful" enough that you can get 10 years if caught.

That sort of behavior is different from the Wall Street behavior you complain about only in scale and opportunity.

All,

Thanks for your kind words. Glad it was of itnerest. I agree with the commenter who said he thought the sound quality was fine, but I am not an audiophile like so many other listeners apparently are.

On the "wriggler" front: I think I made that slang up. Not sure. Seems to fit. And the point was not so much to defend their choice of lifestyle (I'm a libertarian, and pretty agnostic about such matters), as to refuse to buy in to the fact that our society denigrates the one but lionizes the Wall Street thief who steals billions. I wanted to defend Stormy without buying into that denigration. That was the best way I could put it.

Congrats to Ashlee on being among the first to get what is going on.

Patrick

Could we get a link to the 'life changing' wisdom speech referred to early on in the interview?

Many thanks to all for what was a fascinating and inspiring interview and best of luck to Patrick in his battle.

Paul.