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The Talk Show With John Gruber

151: ‘Option P’ With Serenity Caldwell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2016

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, using an iPad for “work”, podcasting microphones, the damn Siri Remote for the new Apple TV, the *Star Wars: Rogue One* teaser, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You sound wonderful. Do you have any microphone? No, I actually you know, I probably have the blackjack since the last time

0:07.0

We talked I got a two by two. Yeah, that's exactly what I have. It's nice. I like it

0:11.6

I've only had occasional occurrences where it turns me into a dollic, but otherwise it's fine

0:18.0

My thing is that I took I got the things set up where

0:21.5

It's I apparently sound okay, and then I took a picture of all these crazy dials

0:27.3

If I ever lose that picture, I'm screwed

0:30.0

You're just like I need to commit this to memory make Jonas memorize it. I have no idea what any of this stuff means

0:35.5

It's so it's very confusing to me especially that all the extra buttons the in and out. It's like oh yeah

0:41.2

There's there too many especially if you only have one mic set up and you're not using the input monitor

0:45.8

And it's just going into your computer. There's there's a lot more than you actually need there

0:49.6

Yeah, I think that as I get older I'm really rocketing towards

0:53.3

Demanding extreme simplicity and everything I use but it's like the podcast I do enough podcasts where it's

1:00.0

Really is worth it for me to sound as good as I possibly can and so I gave up on my beloved

1:05.3

Just plug it into a USB microphone, you know

1:08.7

Which I loved in theory, but everybody agrees there ever since I switched to this I sound better so I put yeah

1:14.4

The the mixers mixers make everything sound great although I did find a lightning USB

1:18.4

Mike that's not terrible that I've been using recently on the road. So that's my that's my good backup for now

1:23.9

So what do you all right? All right, let's let's consider this part of the show. So a lightning

1:28.7

What would what does that mean you mean like podcasting from like an iPad?

1:34.0

Um, yeah, I

1:36.0

Podcasting from an iPad is still a pain in the ass, but

1:39.3

being able to record your audio on the go is really helpful

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