... which I was, in the previous post (made, oh, so long ago) ...

Columnist Karen O'Brien and I spent a chunk of this morning learning the ins and outs of our audio system here -- with an eye to producing more industry audio material for the website. Brent has already mastered the equipment, and I think Karen and I grasped the essentials. (The scariest one: If we forget to provide a new name for the file and accidentally leave the previous name on the new recording, the new recording will overwrite the previous one. Ak.)

We also heard a sad anecdote about another editor who'd conducted an important phone interview (we can do both phone and in-person interviews) but who hadn't experimented with his levels and the assorted microphones. The interview was salvaged but it took Audio Master Dan Halverson about a day to patch together a fix that involved re-recording the questions and ... Well, you don't need to know the details.

I can conduct interviews from my phone, as well -- but I'm thinking the fidelity will be best using the podcast studio. So it's time to adjust again, learn the rules to yet another game, and enter the lists again. Man, this evolution stuff is tricky.

But the result should be still more material to entertain you on the CBGXtra website. Stay tuned.