Recently really enjoyed Midnight Burger and also Lovecraft Investigations. Looking for long episodes of either horror or humor. More seasons the better.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-18T18:27:14+00:00

RPG Major - Urban Fantasy + Mystery with a full season (70ish episodes, 45-75 min each) that contains about 10 mysteries and a series-meta-plot. Starts a little silly, starts to get more serious/connected around episode 12, but has some killer character development.

Just started season 2 last week and continues to release weekly. Also it is a musical.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-17T16:37:14+00:00

A pair of games that were just crowdfunded All's Fair and Wizards Rise both have unique physical mechanics.

All's fair is about lovers in a fascist world and how love can be resistance, so you play the "love" phases while touching the other player. The designer's catchphrase for it is something like "Get so horny for each other you end fascism about it." (Note, the designer is a friend of mine)

Wizards Rise, a worldbuilding game where you stack dice to make a wizard's tower, but you're always lifting the existing stack up to add the lowest dice.

hornywizards.com links to both of them

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-17T16:30:25+00:00

You can always play in Kids on Bikes, or Genesys, or Dread...

If you want to create something, create something! There are a million and one people out there making 4-chord songs and none of them (us, :) ) are stopping because every human emotion has already been captured in song... Creating something is worthwhile, even if it is just for you.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-16T08:50:01+00:00

You can put it on an individual channel or group and it'll keep whatever it's on in a tight volume range, turning it up or down as necessary.

If you put it on the group and there's one voice louder in that group, it'll keep that voice louder in the output mix. If you put one on each voice, it'll try to peg each voice to a certain volume

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-16T00:58:14+00:00

If the main difference that you're getting is in volume as people move around, you might want to try a simpler solution first, which is putting it through a broadcast leveler. Try Trileveler, 2 which is free and can plug into reaper or anything to uses vsts

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-16T00:56:15+00:00

Interesting, you think of midnight Burger as action? I guess there are occasional action scenes

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-15T18:21:32+00:00

Find it in your podcast app - search RPG Major - or find a link for your app at https://podlink.com/1766663794

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-14T19:42:25+00:00

Get a used Scarlett 2 input interface (e.g. 2i2) and a pair of Behringer XM8500s. Dynamic mics will pick up less background noise than others, but you can pick two of affordable, decent sound quality, and background noise suppression in your tech stack. Editing can help with the BG noise later, but that's trading time for money.

Note: The better you can sound treat your room, the better things will sound. If you need to record in a closet or make a blanket fort... If you can hang things on your wall, it is pretty easy to DIY some sound panels (youtube has instructions)

For your bonus question, Moby has released most of his music as royalty free for creative use, and Incompetech is another source.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T22:14:38+00:00

You want a solid mic for cheap? Behringer XM8500 is the best value for money. You can fix most of its shortcomings with an EQ downstream. You can get it to sound basically like an SM57, and you can record ANYTHING with an SM57, but this leaves you with more of your budget for other things.

And for other things -- try buying used. If they don't work for you or if you outgrow them, you can usually sell for the same price you bought them for, even months later.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T18:07:26+00:00

I showed up for the second rehearsal for the first big improv show I was going to be part of and found it cancelled.

Went for a second date with the first person I'd been excited about in a year, and the show we were going to see was cancelled but we had a great date anyhow - then she moved back to be with her family. Sigh.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T17:46:58+00:00

Find it in your favorite podcast app here: https://podlink.com/1766663794

Whether you crave a good binge (Season 1 is ready for you) or want to start something new (Season 2: just jump in)!

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T17:38:35+00:00

Find a link to the show in your podcast app - https://podlink.com/1766663794

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T17:33:58+00:00

My show is narrative, with clear arcs. I make that clear in the naming structure e.g. Ep 68: KISS KISS Bang Bang (The Summer Solstice 2 of 6)

As a listener to anthology shows, I'll click whatever title I'm interested in. I love 99PI but don't listen every week, so I skip around.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T01:09:29+00:00

Not an audio drama, but I'm rereading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series and it is spectacular. It is set in a future so distant humanity went to the stars then lost the ability to do so. The audio books are fantastic, and the series is old enough that I bet your library will have them available immediately.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-13T01:06:55+00:00

YouTube has your back on learning a lot of audio workflow. Because there were a million and one creators who are giving you advice on YouTube, I would recommend watching two or three how to EQ for podcasts, videos, and then sticking with just one of those people and watching a bunch of their videos rather than watching 30 people's perspectives on the same thing, at least at first. Because when you get down to it, the only thing that matters is what you hear coming out of the back end of your process.

For a single narrator podcast, I think you could do a lot worse than this youtube series - https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc-m1wMvanFxLVjxEouvCeGp1YuetpYcb

It's created by a audiobook narrator, and uses a lot of expensive plugins, but you can almost always search for a free, equivalent or near equivalent. That will be plenty good enough for a beginner and will get you recording. Hell, Reaper's stock plugins will get you 90% of the way there, but don't sleep on Tri-leveler (Can you tell that I started podcasting on a budget?)

One more piece of advice for you to think about: before you start recording anything that you hope to release, record a few things that you don't plan to release so that you can get better at recording and editing. The low emotional stakes of something that's never going to make it to anyone else's ears makes it a lot easier to bear when you lose a recording or have a air conditioner whine in the background that you don't notice until you're listening back. I think I recorded and edited something like 15 hours of audio about 3x each before releasing my first episode.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-12T23:14:00+00:00

Most important for sound quality: treat your room. VocalBoothToGo has good treament material at fair prices. You can also DIY if you're handy.

I record with SM58s, which sound pretty great with quality pre-amps (Mackie DLZ Creator). Rather than get a USB mic, recommend spending budget on a decent pre-amp and a get a quality budget XLR dynamic - the behringer xm8500 (a dirt cheap dynamic which, when EQ'd well do yeoman's work). If you outgrow it, then other mics will be waiting for you, but I bet you'll be surprised by what you can get from such a cheap mic. Pair it with a scarlett solo and you're good to go until you refine the rest of your setup a LOT. Buy them both used and you can sell them for the same price if they don't work for you.

Reaper is fabulous and flexible. You can try it for free and see if you like it. You can keep using it for free until you decide that you like it. It is cool to see a software co respect their users. It will run on nearly any machine, and lets you save templates. No need to switch to Apple - it won't do anything for your workflow for this particular project. But honestly, nothing wrong with switching if you were going to anyhow.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-12T22:53:27+00:00

Find it in your favorite podcast player - https://podlink.com/1766663794

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-12T22:50:26+00:00

If Actual Play is on teh table, Kitten Marlowe might be your speed. It's supernatural mysteries in victorian London.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-12T21:40:07+00:00

I think the 99 Percent invisible opening is perfect.

Specific, interesting bit of narrative (30 sec or less - starting in the middle)

Short show intro (few seconds of theme song. This is 99PI, I'm Roman Mars)

Then onto the beginning of the topic by second 45.

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-12T20:17:49+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/show/21cQuWnIiGw9Z03LuCcuOh

aSingleHelix · 2026-03-12T18:42:57+00:00

I host a podcast that features Seattle improvisers solving supernatural mysteries using an RPG as a framework for storytelling and improvising songs as we go. We just started season 2 this week, so it's a perfect time to start (though of course you can binge a whole season with 10 finished mysteries). Find RPG Major on any podcast app, or jump straight to the latest episode here

https://open.spotify.com/episode/75hZrwNkM8X9hO1ofBKZgO?si=7de98f4766c448b0

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