Can the GOTY podcast be "fixed" somehow?

So yeah, technical difficulties kinda ruins most of the GOTY podcast with all the distracting sounds like the heavy breathing and other noises in the background 
 
And Brad and Vinny sounds distant but its the breathing that distracts me the most, is there any kind of way to improve the recording? 
 
It's just a shame that this happened to the longest podcast ever

no unless they rerecord it, which i don't think they want to sit down and dicuss it again for 3 hrs. 

I haven't noticed any technical difficulties, but admittedly I'm not that far in. Hopefully it doesn't get too rough. I don't know for sure, but I imagine it's a possibility that there's some kind of noise compressing program out there.

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I haven't noticed any technical difficulties, but admittedly I'm not that far in. Hopefully it doesn't get too rough. I don't know for sure, but I imagine it's a possibility that there's some kind of noise compressing program out there.

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" its not too bad really. "

Meh, fine to me. The sounds a bit...not sure how to describe it, loud-ish or echo-ish maybe? Doesn't bother me though.
 
Happens roughly 1h 5m or so in.

no

I'm sure if there were any way to fix it they would have already done so before posting it. Given what happened though I think they did an alright job mixing it. I can hear everyone just fine, even if Jeff and Ryan are a little distorted and Brad and Vinny are a little echoey.

I don't think it's bad at all, it's not "unlistentoable" by any means. It could be better though, and I agree for it being the longest podcast it is a little bit of a shame but oh well. I'm happy there's a near 4 hour podcast =D

When Ryan came on with the warning message, I was expecting it to suck ass, but it hardly matters. It's a little echoey, but still largely better quality than other podcasts I listen to.

I just went to about an hour in (I"ll listen to this a little later) and I didn't notice anything, I am on bullshit speakers tho so it might be because of those

They stopped to talk about spoilers in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the Wii and then technical difficulties. Curious...

I honestly didn't notice the breathing until reading about it and listening for it. It's not exactly subtle, but I was just more focused on the actual debate than the background noise.

" They stopped to talk about spoilers in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the Wii and then technical difficulties. Curious... "

I don't think it sounds that bad, actually. Reminiscent of the E3 / PAX / Event podcasts that have a bunch of people in the room talking. No biggie.

The heavy breathing was annoying as hell. It was like there was no air in the room, and he was grasping for the last bit of air left. People who didn't hear it must have hearing problems anyway. Really distracting, but a great podcast nevertheless.

" @Claude said:

" They stopped to talk about spoilers in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the Wii and then technical difficulties. Curious... "

By spilling the beans, Brad cursed the rest of the bombcast! It all makes sense! "

The breathing was pretty annoying. I'm gonna pin that on Ryan.

no fix, and they don't need to.
 
 
they just have to give us another 3+ hour long podcast for this. ~WINKITY WINK WINK~

it's not too bad really. You hardly notice it after 10 minutes.

" I don't think it sounds that bad, actually. Reminiscent of the E3 / PAX / Event podcasts that have a bunch of people in the room talking. No biggie. "

Several days ago Ryan mentioned something about a great, productive day ruined by technological bullshit... He said he was so pissed he was shaking. I guess this was the problem he was talking about. 
 
It sounds compressed already. That's all you could do with a problem like that, compress the shit out of it. Considering how it would have sounded raw, they did a great job. The breathing sounds are in speech range and would get louder in the mix using a fix like that. It's the best they could do, I suppose. 

Someone had or still has a cold.
 
I also heard somebody eating some sort of snack food during the podcast which was hilarious.

" They stopped to talk about spoilers in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the Wii and then technical difficulties. Curious... "

I got used to it, it wasn't too bad.

i fucking love the bombcast, im known to have listened to all of the bombcasts multiple times (yeah im sad like that) but the GOTY bombcast, while amazing content wise, was really distracting, and it broke my number one rule of what NOT to do on a mic...EVER... and that is chew. When someone (jeff?) started eating the cookie or whatever it was it really drove me nuts. The heavy breathing was really distracting too, and it usually doesnt bother me on the bombcast, but this time it was a bit much.

I listened to it last night and it was fine for me.

You people are some kind of fucking audiophiles, because I did not notice a damn thing.

It was annoying, sure, but I got through it. I probably won't listen to it again though.

It doesn't bother me. Either does the eating... or the breathing... 

 i agree, the heavy breathing is really distracting.

" @Rhaknar:   I'd take it easy there, fella. It was a one-technical issue.  To be brutally honest, if they were to try and take every teenybopper's "number one rule" into account there wouldn't be a bombcast... or a website for that matter.  Those podcasts are a pain in the ass to do sometimes, I bet. Especially when there isn't much to talk about. Be glad we have this wonderful site. "

The breathing has always kind of annoying me about the podcast, but usually it isn't that bad. I'm kind of afraid to listen to this new one now. 

I just put in a pair of earbuds. Totally listenable.

This podcast was way more listenable then the one with Leigh Alexander.

I know its horrible i hate paying for things that suck.   Oh Wait...............................................It's free and not bad turn it off if you don't like it.  
 
I remember trying to listen the 1up yours at PAX and the sound quality was so bad you couldn't hear any of them.
 
 IT's a bit silly to complain about it considering they had what roughly 5 hours of bombcast this week (The minicasts round up to about an hour)

It didn't bother me too much because it was due to a technical mishap. Damn near any other podcast I've heard from other sites have people breathing into the mics as if they'd just run a marathon, CONSTANTLY smacking their lips (this offense equals me turning off the podcast and never listening to it again), or eating no less than 600,000 cans of Pringles at top volume. And in the case of this Bombcast, it wasn't always happening, it would be every few minutes I'd notice one of them breathing pretty loudly and then stopping. 
 
When the break came and Ryan was running his mouth about their troubles, I figured the rest of the podcast would be nigh-unlistenable, I was thankfully wrong.

It's not that bad really. Yeah, it could have been better but I'm not gonna complain about the audio quality of a super awesome 4 hour bombcast.

It sounds a tiny bit archaic, but it didn't bother me. Also, I've never gotten people's hatred of hearing other people breathe.....

" This podcast was way more listenable then the one with Leigh Alexander. "

I was kind of worried when Ryan said during the break that there were technical difficulties, but it ended up not bothering me at all, maybe because I wasn't listening to it through my headphones but on my laptop, that never let me hear the podcasts to loudly. Also I was playing, y'know,during.

The quality of fun conversation outweigh's the slightly off-putting echoey voices. So no, not really. Quit moaning, ya big baby. lol.

It was fine once you got used to it.  Just think of it as the Arrow Pointing Down GOTY Podcast (ie. awesome).  
 
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