*Phew* A positive review!

Phew A positive review!

I really enjoy reading the reviews posted at The New, New Podcast Review. It’s obvious that the author takes his time and really listens to several different episodes before he makes any judgements about a podcast. I’ve found him to be quite thorough in his critiques of peoples’ audio quality and dead on when it comes to reviewing content. I’ve discovered several quality podcasts through his reviews. He only reviews a podcast about once a week so he has a massive review-queue, but I’m actually glad that he takes his time and doesn’t rush judgements.

And no, I’m not just saying all this stuff because he gave me a positive review!

To be honest, I’ve actually been sort of nervous for the last week. Like I’ve always said, i enjoy making these podcasts and obviously people enjoy listening to them. That’s good enough for me. However, I did put my name in the review-queue a month or two ago and knew that it was coming up soon. It definitely made me nervous to know that someone was going to be listening to it for the sole purpose of reviewing it and critiquing it! I don’t know why I was nervous, it’s not like I would have quit podcasting if he had given me a scathing review. However, I respect this person’s a opinion based on my previous experiences with his reviews. Consequently I feel that his thoughts on the matter have some weight to them.

Thankfully he gave me a pretty decent review. 3.5 stars and he said that he’s going to “watch” the podcast. No, I don’t know that that means and I’ve already asking for clarification on that one

To be honest, I think he was dead on, both in his compliments and his critiques. Among the critiques were a suggestion to drop the bit rate down because my show doesn’t really require 96kbps encoding and a hint to pay more attention to my environment. I definitely need to do that. Unfortunately my office has a rather loud heating system in it, so I’m considering trying to get a better microphone/software combination that can cancel out some of that noise.

So that’s a big relief. Glad I passed my first big review! Oh, and just for the sake of posterity, it’s Stephen, not Steven