This show focuses on the technical production of audio podcasts. Chris Curran chats with podcasters about their audio equipment, software and workflow to help you learn how to produce better sounding podcasts. You’ll also learn solutions to common audio issues as well as plenty of tips and tricks. By listening to this show you will gain a TON of knowledge and skills that will make a HUGE difference in your sound quality _and_ save you time! Subscribe/Follow today and start listening! Your host Chris Curran has a background in podcast production (Forbes, Dun & Bradstreet, J&J, etc) as well as music production (Sarah McLachlan, Jeff Buckley, Foreigner, etc). When he entered podcasting in 2012, he noticed that most podcasters (and producers) do not have a good understanding of fundamental audio engineering concepts, which sabotages the quality of their sound from the very beginning. This show, as well as Podcast Engineering School, helps podcasters and producers reach professional levels of podcast audio production.
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episode 6: Rob Walch
My guest is Rob Walch, VP of Podcaster Relations for Libsyn, and host and/or producer of the following podcast shows:
- Podcast 411
- The Feed
- Today in iOS
- KC Startup 411
- Even his son Porter has a podcast! Porters Podcast
- Rob also helps produce WelchCast
We spoke in detail about Rob's technical setup for each of his shows.
Along the way Rob had some great tips for all of us: (Listen to the episode for all the nitty-gritty)
- Record your Skype audio on a different device instead of on the same computer which you're using to Skype. Then there's no risk of over-taxing that computer's CPU
- He loves his Marantz 660 digital recorder - rock solid
- Sound Soap (plugin to clean up audio) - $150, works in GarageBand
- When making Skype calls, the call will be smoother if the call is initiated from the person with the fastest internet connection
- When linking to your show's iTunes presence, there is a way to have your show open directly in the place where your listener can click 'Subscribe.' *Here are the steps:
- 1. Append &LS=1 to your iTunes show URL
- 2. Then create a Bitly link for that link
- 3. Then use that Bitly link to promote your show in iTunes
BTW- try clicking the one of the two iTunes links in this post and see where it opens ;)
Also, while recording this episode we had a disconnection/crash of CAST, which we were using to connect and record. I am digging CAST and learning how to use it.......and how NOT to use it - like closing the tab of a session and then trying to get back to that session (which you can't)
Thank you for being a great guest and helping us so much, Rob!
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