That sounds great. I don't hear any hiss during the talk. But the process sounds like a lot of trouble. I think your earlier stuff sounds fine but would be better louder. Judging from the couple I looked at, you're not using the full dynamic range anyway. Just max the volume using Normalize or whatever.

Sofa Dogs is great but not very similar to Down in Front in style or format. Plus, lately, he's done a number of commentaries with that Tysto guy, and jeez....

Levelator is great, but I agree that the fact that it snottily won't take MP3s is annoying. (The developers say on their site that it could but they just don't want people to do that because it degrades the audio.) I frequently pull other people's commentaries into Audacity and crush them with the compressor. (That function used to be crappy, but I find it quite good now, as long as the voices are at consistent levels; if not, Levelator is the only resort.) Since a lot of commentators post 128 kbps files, it would be soooo much more convenient if I could just drop that on Levelator and get an 80 kbps MP3 back....

That's really cool. I wondered how those came about.

I think it should say "Live Hot Chat!" And then see what happens. Not just tonight, but in general.