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In Depth Product Reviews
You probably stumbled upon here looking for a review of a sports gadget. If you’re trying to decide which unit to buy – check out my in-depth reviews section. Some reviews are over 60 pages long when printed out, with hundreds of photos! I aim to leave no stone unturned.
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Read My Sports Gadget Recommendations.
Here’s my most recent GPS watch guide here, and cycling GPS computers here. Plus there are smart trainers here, all in these guides cover almost every category of sports gadgets out there. Looking for the equipment I use day-to-day? I also just put together my complete ‘Gear I Use’ equipment list, from swim to bike to run and everything in between (plus a few extra things). And to compliment that, here’s The Girl’s (my wife’s) list. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!
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Have some fun in the travel section.
I travel a fair bit, both for work and for fun. Here’s a bunch of random trip reports and daily trip-logs that I’ve put together and posted. I’ve sorted it all by world geography, in an attempt to make it easy to figure out where I’ve been.
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My Photography Gear: The Cameras/Drones/Action Cams I Use Daily
The most common question I receive outside of the “what’s the best GPS watch for me” variant, are photography-esq based. So in efforts to combat the amount of emails I need to sort through on a daily basis, I’ve complied this “My Photography Gear” post for your curious minds (including drones & action cams!)! It’s a nice break from the day-to-day sports-tech talk, and I hope you get something out of it!
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. But at the end of the day, you might just be wondering “What does Ray use when not testing new products?”. So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker 2023 swim, bike, run, and general gear list. But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? If that’s the case (but certainly not saying my choices aren’t good for women), and you just want to see a different gear junkies “picks”, check out The Girl’s Gear Guide too.
you’d be wise to invest in a better mic.
It’s hard to hear.
Weird, I didn’t see any other comments about the audio (I’ve tested playback on three phones and three laptops – all seem fine-ish). There’s a bit of a echo, mostly due to the cave’s walls – but even with a mic setup I get a slight echo there too.
I had mics setup, but one thing I learned last year with doing these is that when things go wrong with wireless mics, it becomes incredibly difficult mid-livestream to figure it out. As for wired mics, I don’t have a board to pull in multiple wired mics (whereas my wireless mics can), so kinda stuck there.
Hate to say but I agree about the sound quality…maybe I have shit speakers on my iMac! Good show apart from that and congrats. You’re both going to be busy!
Says the Facebook dcr podcast link has expired
Hmm, which link? Both seem active and available to me?
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Could be US or non app versions?
Weird. I wish I had some logical explanation. Or even an illogical one. I’ll be honest, I’m stumped. I’m seeing view-count increase over the course of the day, so it must still be available.
If you were to search within facebook for DC Rainmaker, and then scroll down my feed a few items, do you see it there?
Works now… Odd!
Facebook ist so yesterday! You should better Use Instagram.
Perhaps for some and for certain things, but not for me. A couple reasons why:
A) My Facebook followers are roughly 75,000 people. My Instagram is a mere 21,000 followers.
B) With Facebook I can link back to that broadcast like this, so people can watch afterwards. Whereas as Instagram Live stories disappear after 24 hours.
C) To my knowledge, I can’t tweet a link ton Instagram Live session to watch on a laptop/desktop/etc. There’s some Chrome extensions, but that’s for a fraction of a fraction of people.
But ultimately, it’s about being where people are. There’s a lot of good scenarios for Instagram Live – like what Cycling Maven was doing during the tour with little snippets behind the scenes. But ultimately his finished pieces end up on YouTube.
As for why not using YouTube, again, it’s sorta a numbers game in most cases. My YouTube audience is half my Facebook followers.