Jail "Light Like Dice" (16.9 MB) from Jail Mad Planet Milwaukee, WI January 11, 2007 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

This week (and, indeed, next week) I'd planned to be running clips from a local band showcase at the Loft a week ago. Turns out, though, that my new camera's one weakness is the built-in mic. Almost everything I recorded was just a wall of garbled, distorted noise. Luckily, it does have a connection for an external mic, and I went right out and bought a hand-built audience mic set from AudioReality.com. My first chance to test them out was this Jail show, in what I expect will be some of the worst conditions I'll record in -- a small room with not that many people to absorb soundwaves, and standing right by a wall to boot. Despite all that, the sound came out decent enough considering I didn't have time to test the bass filter settings.