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- Nov 21: Timothée Chalamet’s bizarre Zoom call for Marty Supreme has everyone asking: who was actually in on the joke? Also In Three this week: Britney Spears has a sleepover with Khloé and Kim Kardashian. A moment to love, or is there some sus energy surrounding it. And Taylor is out on the town with her girlfriends; but, is there a reason behind these dinners? The show aims to be your ultimate pop culture playground.
- Oct 22: Just in time for Christmas, Zoom (the audio equipment manufacturer) is to launch the Zoom PodTrak P4next, a portable XLR multitrack recorder with “AI noise reduction”, compression and tone shaping. Here’s a demo video. It’s marked as “coming soon” on B&H for $179.99. We’ve not had a press release for it, but it appears to have been announced yesterday.
- Oct 15: Writing in Vulture, Nick Quah suggests it’s “a kind of mutual defense pact” against YouTube. Writing in /r/billsimmons, fans call this “lame”, “stupid”, and “dumb”; however some point out that the low production values of these shows (many of which are simply recorded Zoom calls) will look negatively different to others on Netflix.
- Mar 13: Leave the laptop at home - Zoom has released the PodTrak P2, a portable recorder for USB microphones. The product includes background noise reduction, and contains a built-in dynamic compressor. The $99 unit can record up to four simultaneous tracks to an SD card.
- Nov 1, 2024: You can try it on their website, so we did - here’s a test file with poor-quality echoey original clips from Zoom, then the Lark-treated audio straight after. By way of comparison, here’s the same thing, but using Adobe Enhance (v1). Ai|coustics sent this better example.
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