[spoiler]There was a point at which I was “hyping” everyone with said scoop and limiting them to hell, but as you know some participants mics are lower fidelity than others, and you can’t force someone’s omni-directional laptop mic into sounding like Tom Leykis… it just ends up sounding harsh and distorted (super-fatiguing) and it also had the side effect of making the transition from one person to he next sound even more “off” so I pulled back on the EQing for the sake of overall cohesiveness. That said I am surprised at the miracles I worked to get everything sounding this good.
The moral of the story is if I ever do one of these again I will have already mailed a decent mic to felix 's faaaaace. [/spoiler]