Comment on Dan Carlin’s Mania for Subjugation III Released (Alexander the Great series)
dgdft@lemmy.world 4 days ago
For the unfamiliar, Dan Carlin is the biggest history podcaster bar-none. His work tends to be extremely long-form, with this episode clocking in at 4:15 and taking 11 months of development time.
Happy early Xmas, folks!
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 days ago
You know, I tried Carlin a couple times in the past, and kept running in to the same problem, every time– i.e. no matter how genius and insightful one might be as an amateur historian, one must still be able to communicate effectively via chosen media.
I’m sorry, but so far, both Dan and his sound engineers are a general disaster in terms of communication. Specifically– the audio levels range all over the place in various ways, his voice goes from intimate to creaky, lows-to-highs all the time, with no smooth intermediate whatsoever transition and so on, and so on.
Sure, I assume you’ll take this as a personal attack upon the man, but from my part? I love that man’s content, and it’s not just hard for me -personally- to listen to, but thinking ahead– I’d love it if he could take some voice lessons, and his channel could improve their techniques and understandings.
Because that man could maybe be roughly on the level of David Attenborough IMO.
BUT– Key difference, THEY learned the medium of the message, and the message of the medium. Hopefully Carlin gets there one day…
dgdft@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not my place to tell you what kinda soup you like.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He spent decades as a talk radio host, and records in a professional sound studio. I get how the vocal range can be offputting, but it’s a deliberate artistic choice.
That being said, I have run his releases through a compressor (i.e. a software program that normalizes the volume level) in the past for car listening to good effect. YMMV, but might be worth a shot if that’s your main hangup.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 days ago
No, no, I Insist it must be THIS…!!
(haha, obligatory humor, once I recognised you, u/dgdft)