My friend was inspired by breakingintowallstreet.com (which he used to get a job on wall street) to create a similar set of advice on how you can get a job in tech without having a traditional background or growing up in the valley. It's for folks who want to learn software engineering and for folks to want to learn about non-tech jobs in the industry. I'm curious to see how the HN community likes the content / mission.
I do a little bit of audio/video stuff in my spare time. A few thoughts here and there from the third podcast:
- Good on them for looking for diverse folks with a wide range of backgrounds. There's not enough of that--good work. Getting more and more varied people into this stuff is important.
- I'm guessing that Artur and Timur are ESL folks, but it might be worth spending some time practicing extemporaneous speech. I've learned from working with ESL speakers that residuals from their native languages and the halting-speech phenomenon are most obvious when they have to think and speak at the same time. A little bit of a pause (one that you can edit out, if you want to) to get one's thoughts in order before speaking might help here, and speech training can help with this.
- Audio engineering: the levels are all over the place and some people sound a lot more heavily EQ'd than others. I'd aim for a consistent perceived volume (taking into account compression, etc.) across the board. In particular, the guest, Kevin--who's so far off-EQ that I'm not sure if he's there in person or on Skype--is really low compared to the hosts. Somebody, if not everybody, should be wearing headphones when doing a podcast (get something like an ART HeadAmp 4 Pro to feed up to 8 pairs) in order to monitor while recording. If you have one or more Skype participants, get mix-minus recording working in your DAW ASAP. It matters, a lot.
- Maybe some mic technique stuff? It sounds like at least one person (Ruben?) is eating the mic when he speaks. Back off the mic a little. Part of the volume/EQ re: Kevin that I mentioned above might be that he's too far back from the mic, so maybe a pre-'cast little coaching is a good idea.
- Show notes need editing for grammar and word flow.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 38.3 ms ] thread- Good on them for looking for diverse folks with a wide range of backgrounds. There's not enough of that--good work. Getting more and more varied people into this stuff is important.
- I'm guessing that Artur and Timur are ESL folks, but it might be worth spending some time practicing extemporaneous speech. I've learned from working with ESL speakers that residuals from their native languages and the halting-speech phenomenon are most obvious when they have to think and speak at the same time. A little bit of a pause (one that you can edit out, if you want to) to get one's thoughts in order before speaking might help here, and speech training can help with this.
- Audio engineering: the levels are all over the place and some people sound a lot more heavily EQ'd than others. I'd aim for a consistent perceived volume (taking into account compression, etc.) across the board. In particular, the guest, Kevin--who's so far off-EQ that I'm not sure if he's there in person or on Skype--is really low compared to the hosts. Somebody, if not everybody, should be wearing headphones when doing a podcast (get something like an ART HeadAmp 4 Pro to feed up to 8 pairs) in order to monitor while recording. If you have one or more Skype participants, get mix-minus recording working in your DAW ASAP. It matters, a lot.
- Maybe some mic technique stuff? It sounds like at least one person (Ruben?) is eating the mic when he speaks. Back off the mic a little. Part of the volume/EQ re: Kevin that I mentioned above might be that he's too far back from the mic, so maybe a pre-'cast little coaching is a good idea.
- Show notes need editing for grammar and word flow.