While I Write below several years ago complaining about sound quality and see that others have done the same, I’m astonished that this still hasn’t been addressed. It’s not rocket science, use clip on microphones or hanging from above, just closer to the people. The echo is terrible and the whole experience of the podcast negatively influenced. Please, Gramophone, address this.
These podcasts are often interesting but severely let down by really bad sound quality during the interviews with artists. Microphones are placed too far away, so the voices sound distant, are not loud enough (requiring adjustments to the volume up when there is an interview and down again when there is music). This is so easy to fix and would make these podcasts much more enjoyable. A magazine devoted to recordings should really know this ...