Ah, thanks Sinder. To me the link works, but I think it's because I'm signed in. I'll be cheeky and replace it with the one you've linked to here, which I'm reliably informed by Nick to be the official link.
And Karlos: wow. That is the kind of feedback we love!
Thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks a lot for your comments.
Responding to them point by point, sorry about the noise! I'm not normally the one who records it (I believe Nick usually does, but possibly it's David. Either way, neither of them, evidently, were here for this episode) so I wasn't really set up to do it. I'll fiddle with the details of the programme I use and see if it's better next time I record. Hopefully though we'll be back to Nick/David recording next and it won't be a problem anyway. But valid point!
Glad we seem to be getting into the hang of things. It can be surprisingly awkward at first. Conversation flows great when we're just talking outside of the podcast, but as soon as we hit record it can sometimes come to a grinding halt. Glad we're improving on that front, and I'll take the chance now to give a shout-out to Gary and 7th, who both seem very at-ease with it all, and made this episode very easy to do.
However, the difference you noticed is also down to more dutiful editing, I think. We are improving, but I did go through and delete and major pauses. Mostly it was lag, because Gary was in China at the time and everything had about a 2/3 second delay, but either way I'm pleased (if not surprised) getting rid of the pauses made it better to listen to.
I'm happy that you liked 7th, we'd definitely be happy for him to come back any time he likes. And yes, Karlos, absolutely good point about the interview with 7th. I'm quite poor at thinking of things like that, but it's a very sensible idea that we should have done, and next time we have a guest host I'm sure we'll take it on board! How much time do you think should be dedicated to introducing new hosts/guests? It will certainly be nice to do that, and let people get to know them a bit before the actual discussion starts, but we wouldn't want to get carried away with it. Would you say 2 minutes would be enough of that?
And the title... I'm going to be cheeky and play the blame game here, but the title wasn't my idea. Nick called it that. But I will let him know (if he hasn't read this already) ^^
Finally... yeah... Slice of Story... that's a thing isn't it >_>
Heh, I worked on it a lot at first, but then it halted and... never really started again. I intend to finish it, and hopefully soon, but it's a lot of work and things tended to come up like Uni work and such, and it always got shoved to the side. Once I've finished this one I'll see about getting other voice actors to do different characters, because the whole story plus editing is a lot to do for one person (at least as far as lazy old me is concerned!)
As far as a progress report goes, all narration and all characters except Grape are done. Once Grape is recorded it will all be edited together and then RELEASED! Hurrah!
I tried to add a sample of what I've done so far, but apparently can't upload mp3 files to my posts. Stand by for alternate method...
Alternate method imminent:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8251666/
That's a short sample of what I've got so far. As I said, just need to do Grape now.
Hope you enjoy. You too Sinder! :p