Jeremy and I were testing podcast equipment yesterday in the car. The adventures began by my giving him a 256MB card that didn't work and lost most of the conversations we attempted to record while walking around the apartment and coolidge corner. We then went to RadioShack to purchase better microphones but discovered that the cheap crap at Radio Shack really was cheap and bad quality stuff. So we drove to guitar center and got recommendations from some people about what equipment to use as a microphone. I tried to get the headset microphone to work but it was uncomfortable and didn't look like a good thing to wear while driving. So we ended by purchasing a condenser microphone that had a shock cage. Upon taking it home it didn't perform any better than the crappy microphone included with the recorder we had purchased.

The full recording for it was launched on our new podcast site Entropy.

It is far from our best work but we figured we would start with some very bad quality things so that we could improve from a low base. It would allow us to set people's expectations very low in case we somehow produced something interesting. Unfortunately the podcast world is filled with many people who actually edit their content on a regular basis and take it very seriously.