Soon...

Apologies to any folks who've been expecting to hear from me, but I'm recovering from a bout of some kind of flueyviralthingy. I'd hoped to be posting RUR 6 this week, but my voice sounds as if I'm chewing razor blades (that's when I can actually speak without launching into a wheezing monster-chunk).

Should be okay by the weekend (I hope).

Geek stuff (plus promised clue)

Correction time (again!) -- When I talked about making minidisc recordings from BBCi's 'Listen Again' I was wrong when I said my digital recordings were classed as digital originals. They're not, they're classed as digital copies, which means that I can't make further digital copies from them at all, and that's what I find inconvenient. If I want to copy the recordings to CD I have to use the analogue input on my CD recorder, which means standing over it to make the track marks (you can't make track marks afterwards when using a CD recorder -- unlike when recording to minidiscs).

Not that many people wanted to know that.... But here's something that tons of people are anxiously waiting for: the CLUE!

Right, email me at rur@revupreview.co.uk if you want to win the new paperback copy of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Just tell me where you think the two-minute ambient audio clip (played on RUR 4) was recorded. Within 100 km. It's a capital city. In continental Europe. I will respond to the first correct email with a request for a mailing address.

The Rev Up Review Escapes!

The Rev Up Review, Number Five:

• Title: RUR-2005-06-11
• Size: 17.9 MB
• Duration: 39'01"

Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator.

Contents

• 00.00 Intro & Welcome
• 02.18 Escape Pod promo
• 04.45 Review of Escape Pod
• 08.46 Comments on the state of short fiction
  
• 10.43 'Zing' FX
• 10.50 Spinfuture by Chris Future
• 11.41 Sound Stages byJeffrey Adams
• 12.07 Update on Ambient Audio Contest
• 12.43 Rev Up Review now listed on iPodder.org
• 13.06 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 13.11 Overview of The Seventh Dimension (BBC7)
• 15.36 A rant about DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting)
• 19.52 Examples of what's available on BBC7
• 21.46 BBC7 mailing list
• 21.57 MythArc becomes Peering Into Darkness
• 22.18 Derek Gilbert's comment (this is on the main blog, not the LibSyn blog as wrongly stated on the show)
  
• 22.33 'Glissando' FX
• 22.39 Feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk (text or mp3), or comment below, or call the Rev Up Review Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)
• 23.05 Comment from Tee Morris
• 24.40 MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana
  
• 25.35 Pronunciation of the word 'podiobook' (and others)
  
• 27.01 Music: "Feel My Pain Miss Jane" by David Henderson at Pod Safe Audio
  
• 29.53 Episode 5 (final) of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 39.01 End

Background music:

• "Another Place In Time" by David Henderson, from the album For You For Me. More at Pod Safe Audio

iPodder.org

Thanks to Evo Terra of the Dragon Page, The Rev Up Review is now listed in the iPodder.org directory.

(Not sure quite how this happened. Evo posted a comment on the revup.libsyn.com blog after the feed for The Rev Up Review somehow appeared in his iPodderX. Well, you know, some things are just meant to be....)

No correct answers yet!

Still no correct answers to the competition question, so now's your chance to win a new paperback copy of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Listen to the two-minute clip played in the last Rev Up Review, and if you recognize the location let me know (by email) where you think it was recorded.

The winner will be announced not in the next but in the sixth Rev Up Review, which is scheduled to be towards the end of June. (This will be the edition that starts the new serial, "Travel With Confidence.")

Escape Pod

Jesse at SFF Audio has reminded me about Escape Pod, which as far as I'm aware is the the only SF podcast that pays for accepted short-story submissions. There have been three shows so far, and I hope to cover them in the next Rev Up Review. If anyone knows of other paying podcast short-story markets (not necessarily SF) please let me know.

The Rev Up Review Competition

The Rev Up Review, Number Four:

• Title: RUR-2005-05-28
• Size: 16.1 MB
• Duration: 35'03"

Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator.

• 00.00 "Be Upstanding for the Rev Master!"
• 00.13 Intro
• 01.04 Votes at Podcast Alley
  
• 01.17 The Rev Up Review Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)
  
• 01.58 SFF Audio
  
• 02.46 Matamea Rising
• 03.53 The Seanachai
• 05.01 SciFi Retrospectives
• 06.28 Between the Lines on Oneword Radio
• 07.35 SF Site Podcast
  
• 07.57 University of Minnesota EngL 3020 Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy
• 09.31 Britcaster
  
• 10.57 Current and future review policy
• 11.37 The Rev Up Review Competition
• 12.10 Ambient audio clip
  
• 14.56 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 15.01 Comment on 'reality podcasting'; Dawn and Drew; The MacCast; Geek News Central; Geek Fu Action Grip
  
• 19.44 Music: "Oaxaca" by Simpatico at Pod Safe Audio
  
• 24.04 Episode 4 of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 33.40 Request for preferred length of fiction episodes
  
• 34.23 Send feedback (emails, or mp3 audio) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, call the Rant line (206-339-RANT) or post a comment below
• 35.03 End

Background music:

• "Take My Love" by Simpatico, from the album Resolve. More at Pod Safe Audio

The Rev Up Review of The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Rev Up Review, Number Three:

• Title: RUR-2005-05-07
• Size: 14.7 MB
• Duration: 31'53"

Use the FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator.


Contents:

• 00.00 Start
• 00.08 Jingle: RUR, Rev Up Review
• 00.14 Intro
• 00.46 Proposed Schedule for The Rev Up Review
• 01.15 The Rev-Up Review Pages
• 02.38 List of Reviews
  
• 05.09 The Fix (see TTA Press)
• 05.54 Previous chapters of Morevi available at www.teemorris.com/podcast
• 06.38 RSS feeds for Morevi, Earthcore & The Pocket and the Pendant
  
• 07.15 Some background to HHGG
  
• 08.57 Review of the film: The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 13.51 Jingle: "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 14.03 Music: "Too Late" by Equalized Intentions, available at ElectroBel
  
• 20.08 Musing on spec-fic podcasts, including Tom Corven and The Seanachai
  
• 21.47 Episode 3 of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 31.04 Send feedback (emails, or mp3 audio) to rur@rev-up-review.co.uk, or post a comment below
• 31.48 Jingle: Rev Up Review
  
• 31.53 End

Background music:

• "The Recruit" by reaman. Find more of reaman's music at ElectroBel

The Rev Up Review of Speculative Fiction Podcasts

Details of the second (and first real) Rev Up Review podcast:

• Title: RUR-2005-04-23
• Size: 15.7 MB
• Duration: 34'08"

Use the FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator.

Contents:

• 00.00 Start
• 00.08 Jingle: RUR, Rev Up Review
• 00.14 The second Rev Up Review has landed ('Tardis landing' sound-effect from Out Of This World BBC Radiophonic Workshop LP 1976)
• 01.04 Intro to this podcast
• 02.25 History of The Rev-Up Review Pages (original website also accessible through the link at the top right of this page)
• 03.38 The Seanachai by Patrick McLean (www.goodwordsrightorder.com)
• 04.35 The Seanachai promo
• 05.57 Invasive Species from Audioblaze
• 07.07 Earthcore by Scott Sigler
• 08.38 Earthcore promo
• 10.06 MythArc from Derek and Sharon Gilbert
• 13.23 Tom Corven by Paul Story
• 14.50 The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey (also available at the Dragon Page)
  
• 15.12 Promo for The Pocket and the Pendant
• 17.30 Cover to Cover, Wingin' It, Morevi and Slice of Sci Fi on The Dragon Page
• 18.58 The future of podcasting?
• 20.06 Cinemascope promo (Oneword Radio)
• 21.32 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 21.39 Episode 2 of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 33.16 Background music: "Longing for Home" by reaman. Find more of reaman's music at Electrobel
• 33.45 Send feedback (emails, or mp3 audio) to rur@rev-up-review.co.uk, or post a comment below
• 34.05 Jingle: Rev Up Review
  
• 34.08 End

Next podcast:

• I'm aiming to post a podcast once every two to three weeks, though there might be some additional Rev Up Extra podcasts if something crops up...who knows?

The first Rev Up Review podcast

Details of the first (experimental) Rev Up Review podcast:

• Title: RUR-2005-03-25
• Size: 15.3 MB
• Duration: 33'23"

Use the FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator.

Contents:

• 00.00 Start
  
• 00.07 Jingle: "RUR, Rev Up Review"
• 00.13 Intro
• 00.53 The Rev Up Review Pages
• 02.09 Audio Actuality: A visit to the supermarket
• 05.00 Interzone Magazine
• 08.30 Intro to Skype test
• 10.16 Skype test
• 15.57 Audio Actuality: Driving home
• 20.53 The Journey of Jonathan Cave -- Episode 1
• 31.14 "Cinemascope" on Oneword Radio
• 33.14 Jingle: "Rev Up Review"
  
• 33.23 End

Equipment:

• This first experimental podcast was recorded on a Windows PC using the open source audio editor Audacity, available here.
• Microphone/stereo headset was a Sennheiser m@b 30, which was also used for the original recording of "The Journey of Jonathan Cave" on a Sony MZ-R55 minidisc walkman.
• The MZ-R55 was also used for the Audio Actuality recordings, with a Yoga EM-8 stereo tie-clip mic.

Music:

• Background: Gershwin -- Concerto in F
• Jonathan Cave intro & outro: Sibelius -- Finlandia

Next podcast:

• Will there be one?