[Channel F] “A Time and Place for ‘Time and Place’” (featuring Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore)

Nerd Noise Radio

Today’s “F-isode” is a look at the fabulous chip-tribute Album, “Time and Place”, written by Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - on a program we’re calling “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - recorded on-location at the Iowa State University campus radio studio!

Tracklist

01) Blimp

1. Earcatcher - 00:00:00
2. Music - 00:00:21
3. Introduction - 00:02:00
4. Discussion - 00:06:50

02) Clear Sky

1. Music - 00:09:43
2. Discussion - 00:11:54

03) Sand Castle

1. Music - 00:16:06
2. Discussion - 00:18:40

04) Odyssey

1. Music - 00:24:49
2. Discussion - 00:26:40

05) Wrath

1. Music - 00:30:03
2. Discussion - 00:32:09

06) Magma

1. Music - 00:38:52
2. Discussion - 00:40:59

07) Valor

1. Music - 00:44:38
2. Discussion - 00:48:24

08) Pixels

1. Music - 00:58:52
2. Discussion - 01:00:40

09) Puddle

1. Music - 01:06:49
2. Discussion - 01:09:39

10) Waiting…

1. Music - 01:12:34
2. Discussion - 01:14:10

11) Clouds

1. Music - 01:22:40
2. Discussion - 01:25:01

12) Icicle

1. Music - 01:31:24
2. Discussion - 01:34:19

13) Orbit

1. Music - 01:40:14
2. Discussion - 01:42:46

14) Party Hat

1. Music - 01:47:03
2. Discussion - 01:48:50

15) Below

1. Music - 01:53:52
2. Discussion - 01:56:03

16) Searching…

1. Music - 02:01:23
2. Discussion - 02:04:12

17) Credits

1. Music - 02:07:45
2. Discussion - 02:12:33
3. Our other projects - 02:21:55
4. Outro [track[ Discussion - 02:23:23
5. Sign-off - 02:28:17

18) Outro (Co-written by Noah Moore)

1. Music - 02:28:43
2. Outtakes - 02:29:28

Total Episode Runtime: 02:52:11
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Noah Moore.

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PRODUCER’S NOTES:
1) the background music during the talking portions were “baked into the recording” and for whatever reason, the left channel was completely missing. I mixed it down to mono for the episode so that it would at least come out of both speakers (and would be louder in the mix), but half the track info is still missing. I typically do not produce episodes this way, but this is what I had to work with in the studio context, and was unable to do anything else about it in post.
2) Usually, each voice is recorded separately so that I can adjust levels and apply compression etc to each element individually. In the case of this recording, all three voices, as well as the background music were all on just one track, so I could not adjust individual components individually. And in addition to the problems mentioned above with the background music, St. John’s mic was hotter than Adam’s and Elijah’s since I was sitting closer to the mic than they were. I was able to mostly correct for this in post by applying more compression / limiter / amplify passes than are usually required. I think the final results on this point are actually pretty reasonably good, and this actually had the latent benefit of only further raising the volume on the BGM as well - which had been too quiet originally.
3) This part SUPER excites me! The ISU radio studio used Electro-Voice RE20 mics, where St. John typically records using a Shure SM7B. These two mics are within $50 in price of each other, and are collectively the #1 and #2 most commonly used mics in professional radio and professional podcasting contexts. I had always wondered and worried whether or not I made the right choice going SM7B instead of RE20, and how my voice would sound on the RE20 instead. This experience gave me the opportunity to find out, and I think the RE20 sounds fantastic! The jury’s still out for me on which one I actually sound BETTER on, though, because I think the SM7B sounds pretty amazing as well. So any gearheads listening to this episode and reading these notes, please listen to either C2E13, C2E14, or C2E15 to serve as a comparative to this RE20-propelled episode and let me know which sound you prefer. It seems so far to be VERY dependent upon which set of headphones / speakers on which I'm listening to them. So I could -REALLY- use some second and third opinions etc. The SM7B recordings are brighter and more “natural” sounding (since I have the SM7B’s “presence boost” feature enabled - a feature which the RE20 lacks), where the RE20 recording is warmer, rounder, deeper, and has more of that great “rrraadiiiooo” sound that I’ve actually been chasing after this entire time. The drawbacks are that the SM7B can sound a little thin and reedy, while the RE20 can sound a little muddy and boomy. I had talked about it depending on the speaker source. On some, the SM7B sounds thin and reedy while the RE20 sounds amazing, and on others, the RE20 sounds boomy and muddy while the SM7B sounds great! So, give em both a listen, and lemme know. I’m -VERY- tempted to buy an RE20 now after this experience, but if the consensus prefers me on the $400 SM7B which I already own, then perhaps that saves me the $450! You know, perhaps I'll just buy the RE20 anyway and try recording on both at the same time in the hopes of getting a best of both when I blend them in post.
4) Unlike with typical NNR episodes, track extensions do not loop smoothly, but “hard end and hard begin” to preserve how they appear on the album. It’s a clunkier-sounding experience this way, but it was done to preserve the album content.
5) In the case of most of these tracks, I was able to sync the imposed high-quality audio files from the non-speaking portions to the BGM handoff points in the speaking portions. However, there were a handful that were near-misses. I hid these as best as I could, and doubt it’ll create any listening difficulties, but I did want to acknowledge them. :-)
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Links to Adam’s and Elijah’s works:
Adam Frazier’s YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNkqyHP4wS4FRcwkqN8SXA

Time and Place Album (playlist):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mhsNxGzAuuV15_8cc_gU9WlzZgHJrZGoc&si=by5lcVDrknk2FV0d

Spotlight ISU (Elijah’s Podcast):
YouTube (with Video): https://www.youtube.com/@spotlightisu8022
Spotify (Audio-Only): https://open.spotify.com/show/4eEa7zaNA1YHhmUNxzo4fw?si=ec4bef01e95445cd

Spotlight Episode 77 - featuring St. John of Nerd Noise Radio*
Spotify (Audio-only):

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EDF0u5Q9LRF5pCMNqrYjN?si=0cn3oX_2RtGKuOJirGtg7A

YouTube (Audio AND Video):

https://youtu.be/9Xbcvqn4fDM?si=4aD4lKBJcG1vH-mU

* = the Spotlight episode and the Nerd Noise Radio Episode were recorded on the same day, in the same place. And in fact, the amount of real-time that passed between the moment we hit stop on his recording and start on mine was only 10 minutes. Also, St. John note: the experience of being a guest and then a host back to back in such a short span was such a profound mental shift that I actually felt it a little physically! Literally!

The Moore Brothers YouTube Channel (Elijah and Noah):

https://www.youtube.com/@themoorebrothers5409

Remembering Noah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F4_Z_cbpJw

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