Excellent show guys & gals! You touched lots of interesting topics. Did you get the new hardware yet, mics & stuff? Please place the mikes conveniently on the table before you and speak into the mikes effortlessly - you don't have to move in your seat to reach the mike, the placement should feel fun = test your recorded voices by playing them back on an instrument: with good hardware / sensitive mike, your voice should come through loud, crisp and clean from you sitting conveniently in your chair, as if you leaned forward and as if you have spoken directly into the mike.
Internet Line Audio quality:
Around 1996 our telecommunications company experimented with the new double ISDN line for video conference. (ISDN typically gave a maximum of 128 kbit/s in both upstream and downstream ) If multiple speakers were speaking at the same time, the whole connection started to break up, exactly like SKYPE does now, 18 years later the net radio technology barely advanced.
In order to lessen break-ups and bad quality "lines" maybe you - or the BlogTalkRadio service provider - can configure SKYPE to use LESSER QUALITY (BTR by selling priced packages, more expensive = better audio quality with more speakers speaking in tandem probably? and lesser quality, cheaper packages sounding exactly like this), resulting in this noise coming up - on the LIVE audio, which is not even prepared for archiving / compressed into lossy MP3 for download yet - currently. As you speak, your voice comes through mixed with light static and sometimes choked with more distortion making it hard to hear.
Once you will get your own SOTT Radio Station, audio quality is expected to skyrocket into amazing heights.
(There are specialized equipment and software for mixing in radio static into perfectly crisp voice audio live, used for SFX for movies and games, where radio calls need to be simulated for added dramatic effect)
If BlogTalkRadio offers a package with a deliberately reduced quality - because they have a finite bandwidth? - and you are using a cheaper package, there is a chance that it can't be filtered too much.
If it is a possibility or you are already using a more expensive package, attaining better quality audio, which doesn't have static noise in live audio, is important, since you are communicating important truths that makes us listeners a lot more aware of what is happening and what we have missed in the news!!