Kevin

I’ve decided to start adding some new content to my blog which has been neglected for far too long. I have at least two ideas for blog post series and the first is about podcasting. I have been podcasting for more than 6 years now and have made all the mistakes possible. I’ve also learned a few things along the way so I’m going to put a few podcasting basics together and then move on to more complicated things later. Do what follows in the coming weeks I am calling: The Anatomy of a Podcast Here’s a graphical overview of what I will be talking about: The Anatomy of a Podcast (Click to enlarge) Look out for each new post as I piece together the components which commonly go together to make a podcast. ...

I'm just back from recording a 'round-table' style podcast episode for the first time with 4 microphones. Here are just a few observations I want to log for future consideration: It was good to have the differently colour-coded microphone wind shields but I should have put sticky tape of the same colours on the mixer - I placed the microphones in the wrong order and so twiddled the gain and level of the wrong one for a bit until I realised (doh!) It would be best to have all microphones the same make and model - I had 3 Samson Q2Us and 1 Shure SM58 - as you'd imagine, they needed rather different amounts of gain etc. It's best to try and tweak the gain for the speaker who's speaking at the time and reduce the gain of the others - I got used to this as I went and it improved the overall sound Getting people to speak towards the microphone is difficult -...

Author: Kevin

New blog series – The Anatomy of a Podcast

Quick reactions to my first ever multi-microphone set up podcast recording