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November 24, 2004

Podcast Review: The Delta Park Project

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The Delta Park Project | Jason & Paul | Comedy Podcast

Format: radio show
Content: comedy variety
Rating: 4 stars
What I'm going to do: subscribe
Typical Length: 20 - 30 minutes

Jason and Paul are publishing a great comedy radio podcast. They're shows are full of good, semi-clean fun. It's not so clean as to be bland, but yet not full of the potty humor that can turn some people (myself included) off.

So far they're only 2 shows in, and normally I wouldn't consider that to be enough of a sampling to consider a full-fledged review, but the 2 shows they've done have been remarkably consistent from a format standpoint, and while I'm certain that they'll undergo some format changes as time goes on, this is a "skellyton" that works for them.

They've had a few regular segments on the two shows thus far, one with Ronnie, who shares just a little but too much of his personal experiences, and Anna reading from the police blotter of her home town. Both were very amusing both shows and well worth the time. The Monster Defense segment in the first show was not repeated in the second, but I have high hopes for its return. They look to be publishing about once a week, which I hope will strike a good middle-ground between content and quanitity.

The production quality of the podcast is fair; fades in and out of other segments and the intro / outro are well-handled and do not clip Jason and Paul's vocals. The balance between the vocals and the inserted segments is OK, I only had to adjust the volume on my headphones a few times, but the audio balance between Jason's and Paul's vocal is a little wonky - specifically Paul's vocals are too heavy on the bass and can be hard to understand. Also, during the police blotter segment in the second show Jason and Paul were difficult to hear. Jason and Paul have encoded their shows at either 66 or 96 kbps (I see different values in different locations) and 128 kpbs; the 128 kbps show (the second one) sounded better, but I think that that might have as much to do with other changes they might have made to their audio set up than to the bit-rate; 128 kbps is probably over-kill for this kind of show.

Delat Park's meta-data is satisfactory - file names and track titles are easy to figure out both from the filesystem standpoint (although a more full podcast name than DPP might be of additional help) and on my Portable Audio Device Of Choice. Jason and Paul don't play enough music for track lengths to be essential. The Delat Park Project is probably work-safe, but I'll leave child-safety determinations up to the listener in this case (my kids are too young for this, but maybe not yours).

Subscribe to mp3s.

p.s. sorry for the gap in posts, folks. I was under the weather and lost most of my podcast listening time so had no content to review. :-(

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Posted by cori at November 24, 2004 03:12 PM