I started with the Pittsburgh arc after seeing it recommended as a good example of the Urban Shadows game. Three episodes in, I am enjoying the characters and play and would cautiously consider this a very high quality actual play.
HOWEVER, the audio quality is so uneven that it’s almost inaccessible. I am very tolerant of audio issues if the content is good, but I am also slightly hard of hearing and have audio processing issues. In this podcast the volume is all over the place. Several players are extremely soft-spoken with voices in particularly high or low registers (combined with a poor mic or low recording volume?), and I I often can’t understand anything they say. Turning my phone volume up barely helps, and blows out my ears when the louder players laugh or talk. There are also a lot of echoes that can muddle with my audio processing.
I checked a few minutes of a newer episode and didn’t see an improvement. This audio issue is bad enough that I may not be able to muscle through, and even though I know audio equipment is expensive, I wish the creators would address this feedback. The content is great and deserves to be more easily accessible.
