Comments on: A visit to Maximum Fun headquarters

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank goodness, I somehow thought Jesse would be perpetually dressed in a tweed jacket with a pocket square! Why who knows? he may even occasionally wear flip-flops!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So… it really is “produced by speaking into microphones!”

By: Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Usually I am wearing a pocket square – though not always tweed! It’s hot in LA! And I do wear flip-flops – at the beach.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

let’s clean up those wires

By: RSF

RSF — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jesse’s studio looks amazing for a home studio. He looks so happy in that picture. It is very inspiring to me and helps me to visualize my future studio.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You forgot to mention pop filters. Please spread the word about pop filters! They’re cheap and obvious but I’ve heard too many PPPPodcasts where PPPPPop filters are not PPPPPart of the setup and the audio is PPPPainful to listen to!

By: Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You volunteering, Anon :)?

By: bobledrew

bobledrew — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shurely someone could run down the gear pictured?! Pleeze?

By: bobledrew

bobledrew — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark and Jesse — To paraphrase Abba: thank you for the geekness.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What kind of dog is coco? Please!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And Jesse’s sister program, “Jordan, Jesse, Go!” is one of the most consistently hilarious podcasts on the planet. Highly recommended!

By: Pantograph

Pantograph — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Loving this.
I’m not particularly interested in audio recording and have never heard this particular podcast (apparently I’m missing out), but I’m a sucker for people geeking out over their equipment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love the way the Sound of Young America sounds, and as soon as my own podcast budget allows I may move to the Shure mic. I’ve seen a few I like for cheaper, but after an incident involving lawnmowers and uncontrollable laughter of my co-hosts, I think the money might be well spent.

One thing though…may I recommend some cable organization? There are SO many varieties to be had, and I daresay it would look even more professional without the cords to trip over! Container Store is a good place to look, but I’m sure Target or Walmart has something as well.

By: alternativeguy

alternativeguy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The idea that public radio is somehow lavish is pretty idiotic. Sure there’s a place for Jesse-types in the future, but you need more of an organization, a structure to get to the larger scale truth. God help us if radio becomes just guys in bedrooms with equipment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let us be clear. Jesse is still completely within his “essential clothing” repertoire. A gray crew neck sweatshirt is still in good form.

Well executed, sir.

Coco, still looking very dapper also.

Mark

By: Davin

Davin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seconding Anon’s comment! JJGo is one of the best things in podcast comedy, up there with esteemed company like You Look Nice Today.

As a Happy Mutant, I can safely say that the BoingBoing crowd will be right at home with JJGo and TSOYA :)

By: devophill

devophill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jesse has an editor (now full time) and his show sounds fantastic. It is also on terrestrial radio, btw. His show does not have large scale structure yet it is definitely high end. “Guy in his bedroom” is a sliding scale.

By: Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, guys, very nice of you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great post.

I was just wondering the other day how the quality sound of Jesse’s crossover episode with Stop Podcasting Youself was conceived.

I assumed ISDN was pretty expensive and even if Jesse had one, Dave and Graham probably didn’t.

Mystery solved, “tape sync” it is.

By: Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I sent Mark a full rundown, I think he’ll post it soon.

By: Monograeme

Monograeme — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damn it all! I’ve gone to some moderate effort to keep Jordan and Jesse’s faces unknown, preserving the mystery, if you will. Even the cartoon profiles on the JJGO shirts at TopatoCo were TMI! Now it’s just weird.

By: Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cocoa is a mutt. We think she’s part chihuahua and part terrier – probably at least some schnauzer. She was a street dog in Tijuana before she was rescued. Now she’s our best pal!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is that the same sweatshirt recently featured on putthison.com from the gap? Looks good, I expected it to be bulkier.

By: mdh

mdh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I know the wood cabinet radio on far end of desk is a Tivoli Model One, much like the one I often listen to the SOYA on.

By: Ito Kagehisa

Ito Kagehisa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m extremely envious. If I’d seen Model 3′s for $15 at Target I would’ve bought every one they had in stock!

By: Warren Frey

Warren Frey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@alternativeguy No, Dawkins bless us if radio becomes guys in bedrooms with equipment. It already is, and it’s become 100 times more awesome in the last 5 years, as long as you lump in podcasts with radio.

I haven’t listened to over-the-air radio in years. An iPhone full of podcasts, ranging from the BBC and NPR to 1UP and a bunch of “guys in bedrooms” suits me just fine.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m only familiar with JJGO from their crash and burn interview with the penny arcade creators. It’s a level of audio discomfort that could elicit confessions from people simply to make it stop.

By: doggo

doggo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Feh! You call those cables disorganized?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another excellent mic that is fairly cheap and very forgiving is the Electro-voice RE-20. A lot of “professional” radio stations use them, as well as recording studios, etc. (nice on a kick drum).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Podcasts from independents are going to destroy public radio. It’s the old ‘time / money / talent’ triangle, with time and talent being augmented by the sheer number of individuals working on their own projects.

This recent article in our old friend the Grauniad tolls the death knell for radio drama following the recent misguided axing of R4′s drama slot, for example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/jun/20/radio-drama

It then goes on to link to a bunch of indie podcasters whose output dwarfs that of R4.

Want zombies? http://www.zombiepodcast.com/

Like your comedy sci fi multimedia? (Broadcast to a schedule, though – how quaint.) http://www.earth101.net/

General drama? http://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk/

There is a whole bunch of others linked from the article and in the comments.

It’s not all about straight talk-radio style podcasts, although that seems to be in the majority because it’s easier to produce.