n8great321

Sep 9 2010, 10:23 AM

The audio quality improvement is very noticeable, best episode in that respect BY FAR! Great job by Jason.

I've been on a real arcade game kick lately so I was very happy to see an episode about this. I just built a bar-top mame cabinet and I have to say it's one of the best gaming investments I've ever made. Having an arcade at home really plays into the "casual" aspect since they're designed to be played quickly in little chunks, so it's an accessible alternative to more involved console games.

Fantastic discussion, very interesting.

ap3xultima

Sep 9 2010, 04:22 AM

Haven't heard the episode in its entirety yet. So far it's excellent.

But as a music producer myself I can hear the compression working and has brought up some of the noise and from listening has possibly put in a noise gate so sounds choppy when someone stop talking, a little annoying for myself but definitely not a massive thing.

I don't mean to offend the brilliant work Jason has done it definitely sounds clear and mastered but there's some things you cant get rid of, hurry up technology get better faster!

flynnz

Sep 9 2010, 11:48 AM

Really great show as I stated in the other "improved audio" thread. I love all that is arcade gaming, so it was great having a show discuss the hobby at length. I just hope John J. didn't scare too many people away with his horror stories about repairing the mon's hah. While I agree, it's much better to be able to work on these things yourself, I don't think they break enough to really worry about it all that much. Most people aren't going to leave their machines running for 12 hours a day everyday like an arcade would. So most of the time the machines will run for many years without issue. And if you do have to pay someone to repair a monitor, you shouldn't have to do it all that often. (again unless you are running your machines for many many hours everyday). I have owned about 5 machines over the past decade or so and I have yet to need a cap kit. Only thing I have ever needed to replace was a power supply on my Tron, but that was my fault for leaving it on for 3 days straight hah.

PeteDorr

Sep 9 2010, 02:29 PM

Hey John, thanks!
Also thanks for posting those pictures of your collection, I am going to swap out the current one I am using for the show with one of yours

TheEMUreview

Sep 9 2010, 01:15 PM

Hey ap3xultima, I wanted to reply to you about this and clear anything up you may be wondering about..

Yes you can hear the compression working, the podcast episodes are heavily compressed.. Due to how we are recording it, and with the everyones different setups with gear, it has to be to sound good. Have you listened to radio at all? Or satellite radio before? This is the way broadcast audio works. It is designed to be front row and in your face for a reason. Listen to any professional show, this is the same process. This one is more unique due to them usually always having 4-6 guests at a time, and this causes noticeable issues you may not hears on some 1 on 1 or 3 people podcasts.

As we mentioned before we are using Skype to communicate, there is with no doubt going to be a large noise floor to deal with. I have a noise gate on the tracks, but it only cuts where there are pauses, and well.. I edited most of the pauses out, but the small gaps were taken care of by the gate.

I hope I was able to clear this up for you a bit, as you said there is no way to have it perfect as nothing ever is. Not even the best technology can make things this way. Wouldn't it be sweet if they could all fly out to my studio every week and do the recording here with my gear, in the same room? Keep the donations coming guys I brought it up as a joke the other day, its not really possible Enjoy the show everyone!

-Jay

n8great321

 

The audio quality improvement is very noticeable, best episode in that respect BY FAR! Great job by Jason.

undamned

Sep 9 2010, 05:51 PM

n8great321

 

The audio quality improvement is very noticeable, best episode in that respect BY FAR! Great job by Jason.

+1!

@blkdog7 - Great hearing from a fellow arcade collector! I've been in the scene for about 7 years now! I bought a SFII machine right after highschool (which is hilarious considering I probably purchased the machine for far less than the amount of money I poured into it previously!), but it wasn't until after college that I really got into the hobby.

No joke on the monitor issues. Though, once you are less afraid of it you can make out pretty good on some deals when people are selling cabs for cheap because the monitor is out I got an original PacMan cab for FREE this way!

Regarding the LCD monitors, I've never used an LCD monitor that was specifically designed for arcade applications, but I do have experience with proper upscaling of low resolution video and it can be done beautifully (i.e. pixel perfect, no blurriness). There are some nice upscalers on the market like the XRGB series from Micomsoft (not Microsoft) that can even add scanlines to the image for that authentic CRT feel

@ Gamester81 & TheEMUreview - howdy neighbors! I didn't realize you guys were local Phoenix boys Let me know if you guys want to put together some local events or just hang out!
-ud