They don’t have the cards?!?

And that speaker is more or less stationary, and it’s inside a room?

I think your absolute best audio (for speech) would be from a lavalier mic clipped on the person. Second best might be a shotgun / directional mic focused on the speaker. Zoom recorder placed in the room will be more likely pick up any other audio like HVAC hum, passing traffic, footsteps BUT it will also pick up the room acoustics and stereo image.

One suggestion is to actually capture audio on multiple devices and mix them (if needed) in Post-production. For post production you can play with EQ and compression, plus volume normalization to get a good clarity.

It’s always nice to attach the mics to their own independent supports so that you don’t get any unwanted microphonics from touch / vibrations. For example, if you place the lav clip on the person but they brush their clothes, or if you stand the mic on the table but they tap the table as they speak…

When you say “interview”, are there two people/speakers? One asking questions and one person being interviews?

It’s the bike (frame) not your shock.

https://linkagedesign.blogspot.com/2016/09/focus-vice-275-2017.html

That frame is basically a linear progression curve. (See “leverage ratio” graph.

This means that there isnt much of a “ramp up” in the resistance as you hit big stuff. That’s what you’re feeling. Second point: you can’t do much to fix this from the shock perspective.

Adding tokens and adjusting the shock tune could improve bottom out resistance at the trade off of stiffer suspension

The megneg won’t help for this issue (it modifies only the first 1/3 of the travel).

Different frame with much higher progression will help.

Theory time:

A progressive frame let’s you run suspension that is both soft at the start and very firm at the end.

A linear frame like yours has nearly the same bump response at the start and end.

Let’s say you hit TWO bumps. The progressive suspension has a different respond depending where the shock is within the stroke. It can move easily when extended (start), but a similar bump when the shock is partway through the travel will not move the suspension as much.

A linear bike hitting two bumps will move a more similar amount for each.

The above thought is why you might like the feel of one design over the other…it depends on your style and terrain.

Theory time 2:

On the graph “Forces”, you can see this frame bottoms out with 1600 Newtons and sits at sag (30%) with 500 newtons.

So 500N is gravity, and 3G’s of down force is the maximum force to bottom.

For a bike to handle extreme trails (big drops and jumps) you will find you need around 5-6G bottom out resistance in the frame. If you dont have this level of leverage / profession you’ll end up breaking the frame.

(If memory serves, a ~6 foot drop to flat is around 5Gs of down force in the landing.)

Link: https://vorsprungsuspension.com/blogs/learn/understanding-leverage-curves

Says the same thing in a different way, but useful round up of the concepts.

…and make Mexico pay for it.

We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year.

Translation: Canada buys more stuff from us than we do from them.

Like… why are taxes so hard when the IRS always has all my data?

In some European countries, the government automatically does the taxes and just sends a letter showing the result of the calculation so you have a chance to review the result.

They have all the numbers already…

He threw in the towel because the casinos were being investigated for money laundering and the regulations were expected to increase oversight.

They were always a scam just to launder criminal funds.