the colors of digital sound recording !!

Hi melting friends !
I’m absolutely not in a horrible mood, just a little flue and a big headache with the sound and recording problems these last few days.
A week ago, I had the idea and the wish to create a podcast but I understood nothingabout the workings of internet behind the scenes and nothing about the sound and compression world. As Michael Geoghegan of Reel Rewiews said, « nobody tells the future podcasters about the need to become their own sound engineer ». When I read this sentence it was like a smell of burning. Now I know why.
I made a short test this weekend which ran between Berlin, Paris and San Francisco (the luxury !) to ask some dj and podcasters friends what they thought about it. The answer was not bad but I was not satisfied with the saturated bass sound of a song and my voice too weak in comparison with the music (picture on the left).
Yesterday I met my friend Mr Brown and his brother Lionnel in their nice recording studio in Manosque to learn some important things about sound and software. It’s not easy to begin with this new equipment (picture on the right). I came back to Marseille sick and tired and went directly to sleep.
At 3:AM, I was awake (enough sleep) and I walked around my apartment…until I started my computer : no news, and before closing I tried Panther’s iChat again with my friend Michael Butler from San Francisco, my only contact until now; but with the 9 hours of time difference, we hadn’t spoken to each other for three years, except by e-mail. And this morning, a window opened and I heard : « Hello » in my computer…it was funny to speak together again…one hour free call…Marseille-San Francisco ! Yeah !
I encourage everybody who has a Mac and Panther to install iChat and we can speak free together.
I’m trying to record a short show very quickly now…for you, my melting friends !

Marseille since yesterday :

Good morning everybody ! You answered quick and well to my internet call like a nice Babel tower. Thanks a lot ! I really love your different languages but it would be great too if you could write some sentences in English if possible, and nobody will be excluded. I will try myself to record my podcast the best I can first in English and then often a second time in French or in German. Allez ZOU ! Jettez vous à l’eau, l’orage arrive.
This morning I drank my coffee reading and listening to podcasters friends full of anger: Mike against a possible podcasts new war ? Mike is a rock musician in San Francisco.
Luc against our French government and the media’s bad work. Luc is a journalist in Paris.
They both give an example of good podcasts. Have a look at their web-sites.
If you are interested in the vote about the European Constitution you can read the last editorial page of the Eurocircle news.
Today I was angry too : For the last two weeks, Marseille has been really near asphyxiation for everybody in the streets; every day the situation is worse, the whole town is becoming slowly but surely giant chaos…as on the way to school :

I’m cooking my own sounds on the fire wire…patience

Yesterday, the 28 th February, near the Mediterranean it was true…
look at the pictures, not a joke…pas de blague !

My name is Annie Viglielmo, I’m French, born in Marseille and living here.
This exceptional snow was a sign that I shoud begin my podcast…in the night, as often for such things :
Meltingpod was born on the web !
Thanks to Ralf Makrutzki the energizer in everyday life (Eurocircle), Michael Butler the inseminator through the internet (Rock and Roll Geek Show) and Luc Saint-Elie the obstetrician by phone (Audioblog).
The podcast was launched with bursts of laughter and the spirit of Rock and roll; I hope it will always continue !
The strange sounds from planet Marseille are coming in a few days…