The great thing about podcasting is that anybody can do it. It’s a uncommon medium that’s almost as straightforward to make as it’s to devour. And as such, no two individuals do it precisely the identical manner. There are a wealth of {hardware} and software program options open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut from NPR studios to USB Skype rigs.
We’ve requested a few of our favourite podcast hosts and producers to spotlight their workflows — the tools and software program they use to get the job achieved. The listing thus far consists of:
Let’s Talk About Cats’ Mary Phillips-Sandy and Lizzie Jacobs
Broken Record’s Justin Richmond
Criminal/This Is Love’s Lauren Spohrer
Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale
Jesse Thorn of Bullseye
Ben Lindbergh of Effectively Wild
My personal podcast, RiYL
Some days it may be powerful to know what to do with all of these tossed salads and scrambled eggs. Brooklyn-based comic Anita Flores began a podcast. A Frasier podcast, no much less. Each episode of the sequence examines a chunk of everybody’s favourite “Cheers” spin-off with a unique visitor, together with current appearances by Rachel Bloom and John Hodgman.
Episodes of I’m Listening: A Frasier Podcast with Anita Flores might be discovered at purveyors of finer podcasts all over the place.
I report my podcast at More Banana Productions’ studio in Brooklyn. I’m fortunate to name Caitlyn Moldenhauer, creator of More Banana, my producer. She makes positive that every thing sounds nice. This is Caitlyn’s studio.
It’s a stupendous house that captures the essence of what More Banana is all about: A podcast community with women-led manufacturing. Books with feminine authors scattered about, an RBG candle, artwork from ladies comedian e book artists and designers and a signed Prince poster. The studio is designed to be shiny and cozy, towards different recording studios that are usually darkish and dungeonesque.
In phrases of what sort of tools, we use Rode Microphones and a Rodecaster Pro. We report primarily in Audition with an SD backup, since you all the time want a backup! Our setup permits for a easy plug and play for as much as three microphones and is absolutely easy to grasp. The studio additionally teaches ladies to engineer and edit podcasts, so it’s vital that we’ve a setup that isn’t a barrier to studying as we introduce individuals to podcasting.
We have company that are available in to the studio, however quite a lot of them are in several states. In these circumstances, we use Google Hangouts or a cellphone quantity to talk with company. We report the Skype feeds typically, though once we can we want if company calling in remotely report themselves with a studio, or near it, microphone setup. For I’m Listening, the company who name in on Skype typically make the episode really feel like an precise radio present. It’s an homage to the format of Frasier Crane’s radio present “The Dr. Frasier Crane Show.” So the sound of a Skype recording matches for that podcast, however not for all of them. We all the time want in-the-room sound as an alternative of over digital.
Most importantly, we’ve a studio pet: Caitlyn’s French bulldog, Ella. She welcomes all of our company on the door, and it completely units the temper pre-recording. I normally don’t inform my company there’s a canine (except I do know they’re allergic), so it’s all the time a enjoyable shock to see their response. Nothing like having a cute canine to fill a lull in dialog! It needs to be a legislation that every one recording studios include some type of cuddly pet.
I not too long ago recorded a particular episode of “I’m Listening” in my house, I can’t reveal an excessive amount of, however let’s say it concerned consuming tossed salads and scrambled eggs. The studio tools that we use out of studio is identical Rode Mics and sound board (the Rode Procaster), which is absolutely moveable and works in non-studio areas for probably the most half. We all the time use dynamic microphones as a result of they assist in areas that you would be able to’t all the time management for background noise, echo, and many others. Caitlyn runs the sound board throughout these recordings to verify all of the…
