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Levi's Podcast
- Thread starter Ian Fitzsimmons
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Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
Another part of my morning walk is on M Street NW, which is frequently corked.
Ugh, I hate corked streets. Part of the Rue des Trois Frères in Paris suffers from this.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
As does part of the 32nd floor of the building I work in. Happy to spend more time on 33.
There is a certain advantage to having video when you interview Jo Landron.originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I just stumbled across another 'channel' of winemaker talks: on YouTube.
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
originally posted by SFJoe:
There is a certain advantage to having video when you interview Jo Landron.originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I just stumbled across another 'channel' of winemaker talks: on YouTube.
The advantage is that a career can be compressed into 7 minutes?
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
There is a direct correlation between video and short length. I was noting that.
Vincent Fritzsche
Vincent Fritzsche
I love this pod but it's very quiet. I listen in my car on shite equipment but other pods work fine, this one I have to turn all the way up. Even with a buzzzz in the background, it's an enjoyable listen. Thanks for the great work Levi.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Well, I'm old and I'm deaf and my use of an ear horn makes it difficult to use headphones, particularly those "look-at-me" Beats by Dr. Dre headphones that the youths are wearing to differentiate themselves from the "look-at-me" white ear buds that connect an iPhone to a lawyer dude in a suit and a backwards baseball cap. I tried sticking an ear bud down my ear horn but it kept banging around inside the horn and all the commotion made me think that maybe disco was coming back or something and it scared me.
But man, I do gotta say that when I can hear them, the voices on Levi's podcast sound good - it does seem as if he's using good mics and probably a decent mic preamp to make sure the subtle nuances and glottal fricatives that seem to be present when interviewing a winemaker all make it to whatever recording medium is being used. Selling a kidney and getting either an API 512C or Neve 1081 mic pre might make a difference though, but at this stage what's being used is good enough for winemakers to be interviewed. They tend to mumble anyway, y'know?
But that brings us to that compressor thingy the professor alluded to above. Maybe a limiter would be good too, just in case they start guffawing in the interview - you don't want the listener to get their ears blown out and their hair blown back like the guy in that chair in the Maxell commercial.
Back when I used to use such tools for a living, my favorite compressor/limiter was the Fairchild 670. It's the size of a case of wine and weighs about as much as five cases of wines. It's all purty when lit up and an original one goes for somewhere between $30K and $50K these days, so maybe it's the price of a case of wine if that case of wine is DRC or Jayer or some such. If you've got alimony to pay or a krokadil habit to maintain, maybe you should just check out the Fairchild plug in for about %150. Nobody will know the difference except the guys at the country club, and they only know that it's different because they read about Fairchild being the "in thing" to have in the latest issue of the Robb Report. Use of such a device would enable Levi to turn the input volume up to like, eleven, and it'll come out the other end comfortably squashed but distinguishable and listenable and loud enough for old geezers to be able make out the French, Italian, or Spanish cuss words. A compressor is usually critical for sussing out what Australian winemakers are saying anyway, since how can you tell whether they're saying "fuck" unless you can hear the rest of it, right? .
-Eden (long time listener, first time caller)
But man, I do gotta say that when I can hear them, the voices on Levi's podcast sound good - it does seem as if he's using good mics and probably a decent mic preamp to make sure the subtle nuances and glottal fricatives that seem to be present when interviewing a winemaker all make it to whatever recording medium is being used. Selling a kidney and getting either an API 512C or Neve 1081 mic pre might make a difference though, but at this stage what's being used is good enough for winemakers to be interviewed. They tend to mumble anyway, y'know?
But that brings us to that compressor thingy the professor alluded to above. Maybe a limiter would be good too, just in case they start guffawing in the interview - you don't want the listener to get their ears blown out and their hair blown back like the guy in that chair in the Maxell commercial.
Back when I used to use such tools for a living, my favorite compressor/limiter was the Fairchild 670. It's the size of a case of wine and weighs about as much as five cases of wines. It's all purty when lit up and an original one goes for somewhere between $30K and $50K these days, so maybe it's the price of a case of wine if that case of wine is DRC or Jayer or some such. If you've got alimony to pay or a krokadil habit to maintain, maybe you should just check out the Fairchild plug in for about %150. Nobody will know the difference except the guys at the country club, and they only know that it's different because they read about Fairchild being the "in thing" to have in the latest issue of the Robb Report. Use of such a device would enable Levi to turn the input volume up to like, eleven, and it'll come out the other end comfortably squashed but distinguishable and listenable and loud enough for old geezers to be able make out the French, Italian, or Spanish cuss words. A compressor is usually critical for sussing out what Australian winemakers are saying anyway, since how can you tell whether they're saying "fuck" unless you can hear the rest of it, right? .
-Eden (long time listener, first time caller)
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
I was at a trade tasting in LA yesterday, and lots of people were talking about Levi's podcast. I was one of them.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
I thought that was what you were talking about, but I couldn't hear you.
-Eden (maybe you should travel with a LA-2A limiter compressor when you're on the road - it's much lighter than the Fairchild)
-Eden (maybe you should travel with a LA-2A limiter compressor when you're on the road - it's much lighter than the Fairchild)
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
I really appreciate the guidance. Thank you, everybody.
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
there's a great picture of Levi doing his podcast over on Vinography this morning.
Ben Hunting
Ben Hunting
I highly recommend the recent Pedro Parra podcast.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
My daydream would be that Levi (with Sharon's assistance, naturally) transcribes, edits, and publishes a selection of these interviews in book form. Apart from the personal histories of some of the growers, the detail provided on soil and planting, vinification, development, timing, and other details of wine production would be unique in the general literature available. The result could be both great reading and a valuable reference volume.
I'm also a huge fan of the podcasts. I listen while gardening, and even on the tractor while wearing my Bose in-ear noise canceling headphones. I don't have volume trouble with those earbuds. Using bluetooth to listen in my car, some can be slightly quiet, but I always seem to be able to crank it up enough to hear.
As far as favorites, Pedro Parra, both Tegans (the latest Sandlands related one being my preference), Fourrier, Texier, Steve Edmunds are all great. I also enjoyed Abe's "inverted" interview of Levi quite a bit. That one helped me understand how hard it must be to ask questions that really allow guests to talk without interjecting things along the way. I know I wouldn't be nearly as successful as Levi at that.
As far as favorites, Pedro Parra, both Tegans (the latest Sandlands related one being my preference), Fourrier, Texier, Steve Edmunds are all great. I also enjoyed Abe's "inverted" interview of Levi quite a bit. That one helped me understand how hard it must be to ask questions that really allow guests to talk without interjecting things along the way. I know I wouldn't be nearly as successful as Levi at that.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
The upcoming Roederer podcast should be really good too. He recorded it at a La Fete du Champagne seminar I was at.