Two hours of unsuccessful fiddling about (which is a highly technical term) have yielded absolutely no fruit.
There’s a problem with the config.
I have eliminated The World’s Fastest Laptop, the software, the audio/usb converter and the four cables between the audio/usb converter and The World’s Fastest Laptop.
Which leaves, as possibilities, the mixer deck, the microphone or the microphone-to-mixer deck cable. I really hope it isn’t the mixer deck!
My money is on the microphone-to-mixer deck cable (he said optimistically).
So a trip to Maplin’s is on the cards, I’ll take the microphone and cable and – hopefully – find out which one is giving out the horrendous earth-buzz which records over and swamps all audio signals.
Once I’ve got the problem sorted I’ll get Episode 31 recorded; there are a lot of things to go through, so I’m quite anxious!
Anyway, the bottom line: normal podcast service will be resumed as soon as possible. And by ‘as soon as possible’ I mean that if I can fix the problem today then Episode 31 will be released no later than tomorrow morning.
Thanks. And sorry.
B.
Pah!
I’m going back to the BBC.
Sorry Mash.
Bearing in mind that 99.9% of the listeners get it through iTunes or some other podcatcher, the podcast website has been hit to buggery today. Presumably by listeners looking for the missing episode. I really feel quite shitty about not being able to get it out there on time.