Want to apologize for the sound quality on this particular recording. After recording for an hour, then editing for three, my program crashed and I lost all my three hours of editing work. By now it was midnight, but I started over and worked until 4AM–as in a marathon eight hours of creating a podcast in one sitting.

So I worked in very broad strokes. I was too tired to edit out many of the pauses between sentences (actually, I think the more leisurely pace makes the program more digestable–what do others think?). But I also used a noise reduction program to weed out a background hiss, and wound up making the whole show sound at times like I’m broadcasting through a tin can. Won’t do that again.

Anyway, I’ve been overwhelmed by information and speeches lately, and I guess when the spirit is willing but the software is weak, things go wrong in the finished product. My apologies for not coming up to the excellent sound quality standards of the other TPR releases. I’ll do better next time.

Arudou Debito in Sapporo