Slice of GTD Life with Renese King

[davidcoforum]

We have a new Slice of GTD Life recording with Renese King. She is a longtime GTD practitioner who has tried multiple paper and digital solutions for her GTD system. She describes how she heard about GTD, and her current combination of digital and paper tools. Renese balances a busy life that includes her job at Berklee College of Music, and her other career as a singer, composer, and arranger. For just one of many examples, here she is singing in a Boston Pops Salute to our Heroes.

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[René Lie]

Nice episode! I was listening while driving, and had some difficulties hearing John...

 

[John Forrister]

Nice episode! I was listening while driving, and had some difficulties hearing John...

Yes, my audio was definitely not up to par. From what I can tell, Zoom was locked onto my laptop's built-in mic, not my external mic. I will do a bunch of testing before any more recordings.

 

[René Lie]

Yes, my audio was definitely not up to par. From what I can tell, Zoom was locked onto my laptop's built-in mic, not my external mic. I will do a bunch of testing before any more recordings.

Ah, that's it! There was a lot of ambient reverb...

 

[TesTeq]

Yes, my audio was definitely not up to par. From what I can tell, Zoom was locked onto my laptop's built-in mic, not my external mic. I will do a bunch of testing before any more recordings.

@John Forrister I had a similar problem with Zoom on my iPad. I was not able to force it to use an external mic. Fortunately I was instructed by the Nozbe team to simultaneously record my voice using a second recorder. Then I sent them this recording and they replaced the "zoom" sound with it.

 

[René Lie]

@John Forrister I had a similar problem with Zoom on my iPad. I was not able to force it to use an external mic. Fortunately I was instructed by the Nozbe team to simultaneously record my voice using a second recorder. Then I sent them this recording and they replaced the "zoom" sound with it.

I was going to suggest the same thing...

 

[Ger80C]

@John Forrister I had a similar problem with Zoom on my iPad. I was not able to force it to use an external mic. Fortunately I was instructed by the Nozbe team to simultaneously record my voice using a second recorder. Then I sent them this recording and they replaced the "zoom" sound with it.

...the famous "double-ender"... Good solution.

 

[sholden]

Auphonic (https://auphonic.com/) can help with audio clean-up and leveling.

 

[John Forrister]

Thanks for the tips!

I'm also considering the acoustics in my office. One of the best sounding recordings I did was when I brought a tiny portable desk and the Yeti mic into a clothes closet. The hanging clothes did a great job of smoothing out the usual bounce of sound waves off the walls.