Last night, in Episode 1 of Runka Punka Go Go, I produced a dud. First time at the controls of the Rumble backend for live streaming and I screwed up my own sound. Opening night jitters. Not ready for prime time.

Here’s the episode and the link:
https://rumble.com/v75rw3u-runka-punka-go-go-episode-1-the-pitch.html

Reminds of when we started the 2Kevins with Grace & Steel podcast back in 2015. The first few episodes were messes. But we soldiered on and things got better.

The important lesson here is to just start.

I hope I have figured out the problem. I think it has to do with the microphone settings in Rumble and how I dealt with these after the conversion to Linux Ubuntu from Windows.

When selecting my mike in Rumble Studio for the live stream, I chose the Steinberg interface option rather than the “Default.” Unfortunately, the default is also a Steinberg setting, the correct one, whereas the one labeled “Steinberg” is actually the 5.1 surround setting. It says it right there, “Steinberg 5.1”. I don’t know what I was thinking. I don’t recall having the surround sound option in Windows. And now it dawns on me that the few times I appeared on The KMG Show, and my sound was fine, it was a complete fluke.

Perhaps I will in a separate post put up the notes that I used during last night’s show to explain things to Kevin Michael Grace; this might compensate for the low audio quality as a way of explaining “the pitch,” that is, what I intend to do here.

Reviewing the sound of the videos played through Rumble, I hear that I have to find a way to make these play and record properly in the context of the live stream. It’s almost as if some kind of noise suppression kicks in to dampen the playback.

Show Notes:

Kevin Michael Grace’s The KMG Show on Rumble

KEXP on Youtube: MEUTE – Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Najwa Otky on fiverr.com: I will write and sing your song in arabic, english, Turkish