[Music]
Alright, well welcome back to The Claudcast.
Um, man it's been a year.
A year exactly.
Well, yesterday it's been a year.
And I just have not really done anything much and consistency is key.
when it comes to podcasting, but this is not the way to do it.
If you were looking to do something,
this is not the way to do it.
But I have a bit of a new direction
that I'm going in for a few episodes here,
and this is going to be completely value for value.
But I'm going to start with teaching people how to podcast.
So there's plenty of shows out there
that teach people how to podcast,
but this one is going to be a little bit different
in the sense that I'm going to show you how to podcast with the most basic of tools and
everything being free other than, well no, not everything free.
The recording software is going to be free provided that you have your own computer and
if you don't have your own computer then I'm going to walk you through how to do this all
on your phone and if your phone just won't cut it then I'll show you how to record on
any voice recorder and get good sounding audio. It's not perfect, but it's good sounding
audio. And that's kind of the theme of this one, this new season, this new section of
episodes. So I hope that I don't go a whole nother year before I start recording more
after I'm done with this season. But for now, I'm just going to go over a few of the things
that I'm doing right now just so I can explain why I may have some credentials in this field.
So I'm in the process of editing and producing and adjusting and consulting on about four
different shows and a fifth one is up and coming.
I'm still producing the step-by-step walkthrough for that lady on how to get her show up and
running.
But my show, my show I've been neglecting just on the basis of I'm helping other people.
So I don't want that to be the case.
So for that reason, I am going to take what I'm learning and what I already know based
on I'm going to say years of podcasting, but just because I've taken breaks, I wouldn't
really count it as years of podcasting either way.
For right now, this one is going to be hosted on rss.com, but I am going to be in the process
of creating a brand new feed, which will host all of these files that are on the Cloudcast
and I will upload them to a new feed.
I just need to come up with a name for it.
And y'all are going to be along for the ride for that.
So just buckle in, listen in, because right now I already have a PDF, but it's going to
be turned into an EPUB because this is very extensive.
I only have eight pages so far, but I've only gone through step one essentially, which is
walking you through how to use Audacity.
Now that's the first bit of software that we're going to run through because that's
It's the free one, but I'm going to go through a paid version as well.
And that one is going to be an iOS app and iPadOS.
And if you're running the M1 Mac, it'll run on that as well.
I believe the M2 and when the M3 comes out, it'll run on that as well.
But for right now, I want to start talking about the basics.
So I'm just jumping right into it, just strapping y'all are in for it.
So first episode is going to be on the basics of what it takes to make your podcast stand
out and be something that, I don't know, that you're proud of and that people will be able
to recognize something that they'll see as a quality product.
So let's start with naming the show.
And right now it's going to sound a little bit robotic because I'm reading off of a
script that I've written out, but this will be available in audio like you're listening
to now, which will be podcasting 2.0 enabled.
So it'll have all the chapters that you need and it will be set up for that.
It will be set up for that.
So let's start with naming the show.
Your podcast name needs to encompass the totality of what your show will cover.
So think in general terms.
Don't get so vague that you wash out the intonation behind what it is.
But also think about how the show will grow and evolve.
So get artistic about it.
So for example, let's say your show was all about quilting, just rando example, we're
going to call it quilting.
I just came up to the top of my head when I was writing out this how to guide.
So for now, let's just think of that.
So instead of using the word quilting, which is what the show will be about, but why don't
we try to get creative and use the language that paints the picture of quilting itself?
Something to the effect of, I mean, for example, threaded narratives, tapestry journals or
stitched chronicles. You see how the idea of needlework comes into play with the
name of the show but it's not specifically quilting. You never know if
you're going to try your hand at crochet or something else that has to do with
needlework. So keep in mind that you want your show name to be broad as
possible but still capture the idea of what your show will cover. And that's
kind of a basic thing here. So we'll get into some more examples here in the
future but let's move on to show art. So when it comes to show art there are plenty
of paths you can take. So step one or example one is use the same show art for
every episode this is also known as being married to your artwork. Step number
two you could switch out the artwork for every single episode which is also known
as being agnostic to your artwork. Or step number three is a mix of those two
also known as being in an open relationship with your artwork. Now I
came up with these on the fly but I think they can stick when it comes to
explaining how to use your podcast and how to create one. So let's cover number
one, being married to your artwork. That requires a lot of thought and
creativity. You want something that really embodies the show's ethos. So take a
look at the example to the right or since I'm reading this off you can check
your podcasting 2.0 show notes or chapter art and you can see the podcast
cover art for My Creative Corner or the My Creative Corner podcast. I don't
remember the lady that I stole this from but I got it from Podcast Index and I just looked
up Quilting. Now her SEO is on point or the fuzzy search on Podcasting 2.0 is great but
you can scroll through a bunch of different episodes or shows and you'll see generic bland
artwork but then this lady has really great looking artwork. The colors could be a bit
more vibrant so I updated those on the PDF and what you're seeing on the Podcasting 2.0
chapter art, but the show, or this art shows that the podcaster is not only going to talk
about quilting, but also about the lifestyle that quilting can bring.
The colors are soft, and the floral decorations imply the show is gentle and welcoming, almost
like the home of a mother or grandmother.
The font style flows and merges with the needle from the first word to the last.
It's very thoughtful and creative.
And if you want to, right about now, the chapter art will, well, I mean throughout the chapter
art. You can go ahead and click the chapter art and it will take you to the link for the
show if you wanted to give it a listen and see if my assumptions of the show are valid
based on the artwork.
Let's move on to example number two. Being agnostic does not mean settling for less.
And although having good quality art for every show sounds like a big hurdle, most people
know at least one creative person and if not the audience can definitely help out. So take
a look at the artwork that is flowing through your show art right now.
If I could figure out how to make a gif out of this, I would do it, but for right now,
you're just going to see four different cover arts cycling through, and I'm going to land
on just one of them that I think is probably the most attractive looking right about now.
But you can see how good looking the art can be, and how it can be had for every single
episode.
Now, No Agenda is a different beast altogether.
They have a team of artists that compete every single episode for artwork that will be featured
on the show.
And because the show has such a large reach, the artists will get a ton of exposure.
Now example number three, we're going to move on to example number three.
It's an example, actually if you click on the artwork that's on your screen right now,
you'll be taken over to the No Agenda show and you will hear or you can just go ahead
listen to the show and see how the show itself is a high quality product so the artwork needs
to reflect that. You have to have high quality artwork for high quality show, value for value.
Now moving on. Example number three is a little less often seen in the wild but it can be
used if the intention is to differentiate different segments or topics of the show on
a per episode basis. So on my show, the Clodcast, a few of the episodes actually have different
standard show art for every episode.
You can see that on any of the modern podcasting 2.0 podcast apps, but you may also see that
on the Apple podcast app.
I can't remember.
I haven't opened that thing in months.
So there's that.
If you want your show to be about a specific topic, you can update your art with maybe
your show's title.
Just paste it on there somehow so you can give the listeners an idea of what the show will
be covering.
Let's move on to section number three, or the subsection number three, recording.
Now what tools do you have at your discretion for recording?
Do you have a full studio setup with sound dampening foam panels or deadening foam panels
on the walls, an Anoiman U67?
Do you have a Blue Yeti and a home office?
Do you have an iPhone and a pair of corded earphones?
Well your current setup is what you have to work with, so don't set your expectations
too high unless money is a no option. And at that point, I'd say set yourself up with
the first option. The sound deadening foam on the phone, paneling on the walls and that
Neumann U67 just go for it. Might as well get yourself that new M1 Mac and get yourself
Ableton Live or Logic Pro or some great software and pay for some lessons on how to use it.
But we're not assuming that that's the case. Now we'll come back to this later on as well
as every other section. We're not just going to call this it. This is an introduction of
what's going to be covered in the PDF that will be released once the last episode is
finished up, you'll have a written document that you can follow through at your discretion.
But if you think listening to this show is better, then listen along.
But let's just call each hypothetical recording situation when we come back to it, set up
number one, number two, and number three, respectively, of the examples I gave in this
section.
Moving on to the next section.
And this is essentially a table of contents.
I may, in the show notes of this episode, put links to every upcoming episode that covers
these topics in more depth.
Maybe if I can do that.
But for now, let's move forward to the software.
And if you can't tell by my voice, I mean, I hope you can, but I am extremely tired.
It's 1.23 in the morning, but this is the best time that I can record.
I'm actually quite loud right now, and there's a lot of background noise, but thanks to my setup
and my filterings and everything else, you most likely will not even notice the background noise.
Now software, when it comes to which DAW or digital audio workstation you want to use,
in the end, it'll boil down to personal preference and available instruction material.
Now at the advent of the internet, you'll find a plethora, or plethora, however you
want to pronounce that information, on how to take advantage of any and all DAWs you
can imagine.
So pick something and run with it.
Now for example, this instructional, I'll be using Audacity for post-production, and
Backpack Studio for recording.
And fun fact, this episode specifically is all being done through Audacity.
Reason being is Backpack Studio is giving me some issues, so I decided to go ahead and
and start recording on Audacity.
Now both tools are very flexible
and offer the best audio for your money.
Backpack Studio is $12.99 on iOS only.
So you don't have it on Android,
at least the recording end of it.
But the interviewing,
if you're planning on doing an interview
with any guests at any point
or just a co-host or something,
you can use Backpack Studio for that as well.
Now that's a monthly subscription of $9.99
for a certain number of hours,
but the developer is super chill
Makes sense.
I mean, development is not cheap.
Just hosting your app on the App Store is $100 a year.
So that's not crazy when you think about it.
But one person, or if you're serious about your podcast, you would love to give money
to the developer.
I'm doing it and I hardly ever do interviews.
But I'm paying him because I love the development of it.
Now, you definitely could use Audacity alone for every step, but that route causes you to
be attached to the hip, to your PC.
So if you'd like to get something recorded on the fly just as soon as it comes to mind,
all you need is an iPhone, backpack studio, and a pair of Apple AirPods.
That's the cheapest setup, not AirPods, I apologize.
Bluetooth is terrible for recording and monitoring your voice and audio transfer through Bluetooth
is just not acceptable in today's Zane Age.
So, corded is always better so the ear pods are not AirPods.
If you want to up the ante just a little bit with your on the go recording and you have
some space, a backpack where you can carry some equipment and you know that you're a
podcaster and you'd like to carry your equipment with you, you can buy yourself a Scarlet Focus
Right.
I have the 2i2 so that way if I wanted to I can plug in a secondary device and get the
audio from that device into the recording software of choice which is Backpack Studio.
Back to that again.
So you get that focus right and you would get a, now with an iPhone, this is where it
gets a bit tricky.
When you're plugging it into a PC, it's easier because the focus right steals power from
the PC to power the device.
With an iPhone, you can't push that much power through the lightning port, so you have to
add phantom power to the focus right.
You need a lightning to USB adapter that also has power pass through.
I'll add a link to that with an image of what you can find in the podcasting 2.0
chapters if you're looking at just King right now. You will see it and it'll be
up there for the next, I don't know, minute or so. But that is a link to Amazon
where you can find that. You can find that at the Apple Store, I believe. Either way,
it works best with... Oh well, it only works with that. But you may have trouble
finding the lightning to USB adapter in any retail store, so Amazon's your best bet.
And the reason being is that since Apple switched over to USB-C on the iPads, you're hard pressed
to find anything that isn't USB-C now in the Apple store or in any of the Best Buys or
Walmart's or whatever carries Apple plugs.
Anyway.
Moving forward.
Distribution.
section deserves a lot longer of a write up and it will get one in its own section.
But the platform you decide on using is dependent on the features you plan on implementing.
This is going to be important whenever we get into the podcasting 2.0 side of things.
So we'll move on.
Show notes.
Now this can be as simple as using the Notes app on your phone, but most podcast hosting
companies and most podcatchers such as podcast, or excuse me, podcast apps.
So let me rephrase that.
Most podcatchers or podcast apps require your show notes to be formatted in Markdown.
That's just because Markdown is universally acceptable and it's just the way it is.
Now I want to add a side note here and I'm going to take some notes here on the laptop
while I'm at it.
Let's do this here.
So I don't believe that I have this written down anywhere later in the write up that I
have, but for now, or actually I do have something set up here I believe.
Let me see.
Do I do?
I do.
So I'll just save that for another moment.
Okay.
We're getting back to this.
Website.
Now, although it's not detrimental to the operation of your show, the necessity for
or a web page speaks for itself.
Having a location on the internet
where listeners can learn about you,
your goals and other projects you may have started
just increases exposure and discoverability
and everybody loves discoverability.
Now there are many good website creation tools
on the internet, a good number of them are free,
no code as well, so you don't have to know HTML, CSS,
any of that, although it helps,
you can get something bespoke
if you know what you're looking for.
Now there are many good websites that I mentioned.
I have a list of website creation tools
that should get you started.
I recommend myself, card.co, and podcasting 2.0 chapter art.
So moving forward, if I mention a link or anything,
just go ahead and look at your phone
and see if the logo showed up.
If it did, there'll be a link attached to it.
If there isn't, it's because there isn't a link for it,
such as a picture on my PC.
But either way, card.co, that's C-A-R-R-D.CO,
and I recommend that due to the simplicity
and the fact that they're perfect for podcast landing pages.
I have three websites that I've turned on to using it,
and all three are different looking
and have different use cases
and have different reasons
why they have certain things applied to them.
It's completely free to use for most applications
if you want to get the pro plan,
which is a yearly billing of, I believe $100 or so.
you get a lot of the pro features like custom domain names and things of that nature.
Now here's a few honorable mentions for website hosting.
You can use WordPress and I'm taking a little bit of a break so you can see the
websites go through, but everyone knows I get to word WordPress,
but I'm not just showing you how to use it here.
When you click the link,
you'll get a how to set up a podcast website using WordPress and that is a
video link to YouTube so you can look through if you want to use WordPress.
And I have the same thing for Wix.
If you click it, you'll get the same video tutorial, but for Wix instead.
And you have one more for Squarespace.
That one has the same deal, a YouTube video that brings you, or
that teaches you everything you need to know about, well, I mean,
at least an introductory, on setting up a podcast website through Squarespace.
Moving on again.
Transcripts.
This is a bit of a weird one.
In the sense that a good amount of podcast hosting companies
don't even support proper SRT transcripts,
but they are a must-have, a must-have for accessibility.
Now, believe it or not, there are plenty of hearing
and paid impaired people that love listening to podcasts
and the transcripts are a major assist
in allowing them to consume content.
There's a paid service out there called OtterAI.
That will transcribe your shows
and even separate the speakers.
Super cool feature, and you can just add names to the speakers
and it'll remember that for the future.
Very able product, very competent,
very good at what it does in most situations,
but it's paid.
Now, if you want it to go the free route,
there are transcription tools
that you can download from GitHub
that work phenomenally well.
For Mac users, and I'm bringing this up specifically
because I have a Linux machine,
I have a Windows machine, and I have a Mac machine.
Mac was donated to me, which is wonderful,
'cause it's the M1, and it's only donated
for a short amount of time until I can afford one myself,
but the windows and Linux are just a dual boot
off of the same laptop.
Now, for Mac users, you'll wanna download
the free transcription tool or transcriber
called MacWhisper from Gumroad.
Free, you can use it, works well,
it exports in multiple formats,
you can pay for the Pro version to get some extra things
like speaker differentiation and things of that nature,
but for just bare bones transcription, it's wonderful.
It does sentence level, it does paragraph export, it does sentence export, SRT, VTT,
all that good stuff.
For Windows, Mac and Linux, now if you don't want to use Mac Whisper and you want something
a little bit with one key difference, but also it's a little more power intensive, I
feel like, because when I ran the tool that checks the processing that's being done on
the PC or sorry, the Mac.
This used 99% of the CPU, which is kind of crazy on the M1, but it's, I mean, it's worth
it either way.
The tool is called Buzz.
You can download it from GitHub and you're going to see the logo.
You can go there and download it on your M1 Mac.
But on the M1, I had to install Homebrew and follow these specific instructions.
Now you're going to see these instructions flash across your screen in multiple order.
It's going to be in a step by step, but you have to download the PKG file from the link
that is provided here.
for Buzz, you can download the PKG, or I'm sorry, that's for Homebrew, open your terminal
and paste the code you see on your screen here.
Or if you get the write up, you'll have everything in written up form, so you can just do that
later instead of screen-shotting and saving text or whatever.
But once that's pasted and ran, paste in this next code and hit Enter.
This is going to create a bash script.
Then paste the next code in that you see here, and this is going to change the path for your
bash script to allow Homebrew to work.
Little bit technical, not the biggest deal, but once you're done with pasting that into
your bash script, type command X, this is on your Mac, and then press Y.
That saves the bash script and makes it executable.
Once you're done with all that, restart your terminal, and you'll be able to run Homebrew.
you, or once you get all that working, go ahead and paste this code in. It's just "brew install -caskcasks" and that is the package for Buzz and that's the tool that you'll be able to use to do the transcription. Windows users will find the process much simpler and this process is similar on Linux. I haven't gotten the right uptune on that yet, I will get that in there later. But for now, Mac users, you got the plus one.
you got the +1 and Windows users, y'all have it way too easy with an
EXE file that you can run to install it. Now throughout this write-up you're
gonna have bonus tips just sprinkled throughout. You're gonna find that you
can use a service like ChatGPT to summarize your transcript into show
notes with relative links by pasting the content of your transcript into the
input box and saying something similar to summarize this and make it suit
Now, no, this is prompt engineering here, chat GPT, and there's actually an offline version
of this that you can get on your Macbook, your M1 MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro, whatever,
just any M1 Mac, you can get the tool called GPT for all, and that is a local GPT server.
It's a local chatbot that is trained on roughly the same data that chat GPT is trained on.
Now, I would use the MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro or M1 Mac's chip just because you're
going to have much more RAM to work with and you're going to be able to use much more capable,
what do you call it, models for your instruction set or your language set.
But if you type in, summarize this and make it suitable for podcast show notes and at
any relative links that are mentioned in the body of text, then put a colon and paste
in the transcript, the tool, chat GPT, it runs on GPUs so it runs relatively quick,
even with a large body of text like the transcript for a hour and a half long podcast, it will
summarize the entire show.
And if there are links necessary, you can get links to the internet for all of the things
that were mentioned just using that.
You may have to tweak the prompt just a little bit because chat GPT is fickle like that,
but that's how it works.
Remember how I said that we talked about getting all of this figured out?
We're going to move on to recording.
So, in this episode, we'll come back to naming your show and show art and where you can get
these things done up.
And if you don't have an artist on hand, I can recommend some artists for you in the
next episode.
But for right now, we're going to talk about recording in this episode.
So, let's start.
With all the preamble out of the way, let's get straight into recording.
So, for the first example, I'll cover how to record with Audacity, how to export a file
in a format that is suitable for all podcast hosts.
Hint, it's most likely going to be an MP3 file.
But some places accept a wave, and I would use wave because it's a little bit higher,
a little bit denser, a little bit higher on the quality index, but still, MP3 is just
fine.
We're not producing Hollywood dramas.
I mean, you may be, but either way, most hosts don't allow that if you host your own files
which will be another section being hosting companies.
I'll talk about IPFS hosting and everything else.
But either way, if you host your own, you can host pretty much whatever file format you want
and go with FLAC at that point.
But, you know, it's kind of overkill.
You're going to get two gigs of an audio file,
and that's just going to be a strain on any podcast downloader or podcatcher.
Anyway, we'll talk about how to export that to be suitable for all podcasts.
I'll also cover proper mic technique,
and we'll go over multiple audio effects you can use to get as close to a studio sound as possible
using just Audacity. And here's another bonus tip. If your initial recording is less than desirable,
meaning tons of background noise, tons of just nonsense, your voice sounds like it's far away,
too much reverb, you're in a room that wasn't treated, you got tons of glass around you,
so it's just reverb off the side, you got an echo, something's not right.
You can run the initial MP3 without any edits through Adobe Speech Enhanced to clean it up.
So looking at your screen, like I said, you'll get the link to that.
That'll clean it up and run a few effects over it to clean it up further afterwards
through Audacity. Now this tool is masterful at removing...
Oh well, hold on. Yeah, at removing background noise and bringing more presence to the audio
at the expense of a slightly robotic sounding sound.
I say "slightly" because it takes a semi-dissirning ear to notice the difference.
And once you've been turned on to that idea, you'll start noticing it if you have a disirning
ear.
If you don't really care that much about audio quality, excuse me, there was a yawn that
came through, you don't care too much about audio quality just because you believe your
content is way too good and a perfect example of this is the survival podcast with Jack
Spearco. He does not do hardly any treatment to his audio. He basically records from mic
to tape and doesn't even run a compressor. It seems like maybe it's in line. I don't
know. But it's fine. The content on his show is just wonderful and he got a massive following
by recording with his phone in the car and there was no treatment done. He didn't have
backpack studio to rely on he had nothing. So if your content is just quality
enough then audio quality is allowed to suffer but every single podcast deserves
great sounding audio that's my belief. My voice broke how embarrassing. Speaking of
I mean I'm talking about how to make good sounding audio and I'm lacking here.
Anyway let's move on. Step one plug your mic in before starting audacity. Now
Although this sounds like a no brainer, USB, not to mention USB-C, is fickle at best and
it's a miracle of modern technology that anything actually works as intended.
So remember this, when in a bind, unplug that line, shut down the code and reboot your flow.
Kind of rhymes, but that's the idea here.
If it's not recognizing your mic and your interface, if you're using an interface, which
you kind of have to do unless you're using a USB mic, either way it's going to be connected
through USB, just unplug it, plug it, well, shut down Audacity, unplug your thing, plug
your thing back in and then restart Audacity.
You should be good to go at that point.
Now are you using USB or XLR?
Either one works, but I would recommend XLR with a half decent audio interface.
You can find the Scarlett Focusrite 2i2, link is going to be in the chapter art on eBay for
around 95 bucks and a Shure SM58 for around 50 bucks.
And these are perfect for an introductory setup.
Fun fact, that's what I'm using to record this.
Now as for the USB mic, a Blue Yeti is probably the best introductory mic.
It's won multiple awards and it's generally accepted to be one of the best sounding USB
mics for the bang for the buck.
It can be picked up on eBay anywhere from $10 to $120 and you can get way higher if you
get a special edition or if someone's done some work to their Blue Yeti by bedazzling
it or something, but there's no need for that.
Just get yourself one of the cheaper ones.
I'd say stay around the $50 zone just because you can kind of be sure that there isn't going
to be any problems with it.
It hasn't been dropped, anything of that nature.
Now moving on, step number two, let's open Audacity or once it recognizes your mic and
you feel like the room you're recording in is suitable for the best possible audio, it's
time to record your content.
But keep this in mind, as long as you're in a room with a lot of objects and objects
that are porous in nature, so couches, a closet with clothing, things of that nature, just
don't worry too much about the room that you're in.
You'll get the best possible audio as long as you're in a room with that many things.
If it's all hard surfaces and opening, you can get this echo and reverb, then you're
in trouble.
But like I keep saying, I'm in absolutely no audio treatment right now.
So keep that in mind.
Now I'm going to take some time to explain some things about Audacity for the layman.
And if you already know your way around Audacity, you can just skip through this section.
I'll have a chapter marker that kind of goes past this, but I'll also have my own episode
on Audacity in the future, just kind of breaking that down.
I want to explain a few things and I mean an episode on how to apply all the
effects. This is gonna round out this episode right here. I'm just gonna go
over Audacity and how to use it and what everything all is for everyone because
it's surprisingly enough. There's plenty of people that don't actually know how
to use it or what everything actually is so let me explain a few things about
Audacity. So where like what you're looking at on your screen right now on
your podcasting 2.0 player is the main view of Audacity and this is where you're
going to spend most if not all of your time. Pretty much most 90 some odd
percent is going to be here. Now the player and recording controls are on the
top left-hand side. The controls are in the top middle portion of the screen and
are for basic editing and scrubbing and the top right-hand side of the screen is
explained in the attached photo. So let me see if I can open that larger so I can
take a good look at it and take a good gander.
Yeah so you got your volume meter and you can use that to see how loud the background noise
is and get a good idea of where your noise gate should be set.
And then you got your waveform at the bottom.
So you're going to see the pictures on the chapters kind of move around and who knows
what.
But the waveform, you want that to actually have something on it.
You don't want to just have it as a one solid line, whether it's got a little bit of fuzzy
at the bottom or whether it's got just one flat line.
That means something's wrong with your input.
So you need to adjust your input.
And to adjust the input, you would hit the audio setup button back in the middle of the
screen.
Look at your screen.
You're going to see that highlighted.
You go there and you click through that.
And so you make sure that your input is set to either your focus right 2i2.
If you're using the interface, if you're just using a USB mic, you're going to want to set
to what the USB mic is titled at. So if you have an old mic, like something that isn't
supported by Audacity because the drivers are too old, some old, old, old USB mic, well
then you're kind of out of luck and you got to upgrade at some point, might as well buy
a new one. So go with either the Blue Yeti or shell out just a couple more dollars for
that Scarlet Focusrite and the Sure SM58 or any other mic that has an XLR acceptance
that accepts XLR, which is pretty much every mic that isn't USB.
Now, moving along, the effects tab is where the magic happens.
Now there's a, I'm going to use this word again, plethora of third-party plugins that
are compatible with Audacity.
But for now, we're going to be focusing on the built-in plugins just because some of
these third-party ones don't work based on updates to Audacity, updates to the operating
system, incompatibility issues, because you think that a plugin will work just because
is called a plugin, but there's a good website where I'll link that in the show notes and
also in the chapter art where you can get more plugins for Audacity.
This will also be in the write up.
Let me actually take that note here in just a second.
What am I talking about here?
Add link to Nyquist plugins.
The next request is the name of the plugins, services, or the plugins that Audacity accepts.
So I suggest taking a few hours to play around with each of the settings to get a feel for
how they affect your audio.
Just record yourself singing a song or saying the ABCs or something of that nature just
to get yourself some good audio to play around with.
And you'll be good from there.
Now once you get a decent grasp of what each audio effect does and you're happy with how
your audio sounds, you can go to the file section of the menu and hit export.
Save Project simply saves your current editing state in Audacity.
It does not save a file that is usable on any podcast hosting company or really any audio
player on your PC except for Audacity.
So you will need to export the file in either MP3 or Wave.
MP3 is still the most compatible.
So I suggest doing MP3.
Now, if you look at your screen, the settings set on this page are the best you can get
for an MP3 file with Audacity.
So, your quality level is 320 kilobits per second, and you're going to want to force
the export to mono, and I'll explain that in a second, but your bit rate mode needs to
be on constant.
Don't make it average, don't make it variable, make it constant, and that's because you're
going to get a constant bit rate of 320 kilobits per second versus an average where it dips
down or goes up or something and then you get the variable is dipping down and jumping
up on the bit rate.
Nonsense.
Make it constant.
Now, like I said, notice how the Force Export to MonoBox is checked.
In most cases you will not need a stereo file as most podcasts do not take advantage of
the stereo effect when recording and this usually requires multi-track recording anyway.
So that box will remain checked until you decide that your show requires stereo files.
Now that's rounding this out.
That's basically how to record, what to play with, next episode that comes out, which will
be, let me see here, what's the next in the section.
I'm gonna go over naming the show and show art.
This was just a little bit of preamble.
I'll get back into recording afterward and I'll go over a bit of the editing that you
can do on that front.
So I will be making a file that has raw audio with all the noise that you can hear in the
background.
I will have a section of the file that is edited with every single step so you can hear it
with your own ears on how every single audio effect that I recommend you use will affect
your audio output and the final product.
But that will be episode three, episode two, because this is episode one of this section.
I'm just, I know it's episode 34 of the podcast, but this is a new season, new section, and
it's all about starting your own show and doing it well.
This is something I know that I'm decent at, so I'm going to just give out whatever knowledge
I can so everyone can have some firm grounding on how to start their own show.
So next one will be on naming the show, how to come up with some names, how to actually
implement the names, how to focus group them, so to speak, just test the waters on the idea
and get everything rounded out on that front.
Also we're going to go over show art.
So how to find show art, how to make it make sense, tools you can use that are either free
or paid that give you either something professional, something playful, whatever you'd like, how
to actually make that acceptable for Apple Podcasts because they have a 3000 by 3000
pixel requirement to even get your show approved on Apple Podcasts.
But we'll talk about that part under the distribution episode.
So I got a couple episodes lined up and this is just helping me to get content out there
for this section of the podcast.
Now, with all that being said, this is a value for value podcast.
Any value you get out of this episode or any episode to come would be much appreciated
if you could donate some of that value back, whether that be with time, talent, or treasure.
If you have some tips or you think I missed something, either comment it on any of the
modern podcasting apps.
That being, the most popular for comments is Fountain.
But if you have artwork that you'd like to send in, if you have tips on what else I can
include as far as making podcasting easier, please send that in. And I actually request,
if anyone knows how to add gifs or gifs or however you pronounce it into the chapter art,
I would greatly appreciate it. I'm looking into IPFS podcast hosting. And as far as that goes,
that is very technically intense. So that's going to get its own episode all together
on how to make that work. And that's because that it should go under hosting, but I'm going to talk
about other hosting companies first because that's user friendly, but technically speaking,
I'm going to talk about IPFS podcasting on its own. So that's it for this one. If you found the
show valuable, if you think it's going to be valuable, go ahead and subscribe to the show.
Listen in for more updates. This is going to be either a weekly or bi-weekly update schedule
because I need to type this all up. I have a very intensive job. I'm managing four other shows,
So I don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to recording myself like I'm telling
you now it's two o'clock in the morning.
So I'm finding time where I can but this is a passion project and fun fact.
The word passion and I just learned this by listening to the survival podcast go ahead
and check it out.
Link is going to be in the chapter art but the word passion the origin of that is not
it's not what you think this is I mean you might think it but it means something that
so dedicated to you're willing to sacrifice things for it. So, Passion of the Christ,
Jesus Christ was willing to sacrifice himself for God's will. So, I'm not making an equation
here saying that my passion for podcasting is the same. It's not my point. My point is,
I'm willing to sacrifice my time with sleep and my time which is valuable, which is why I'd
I'd require, well, request that y'all would donate some value back.
I find this valuable.
I'm willing to donate some time to it.
And for that reason, I'm passionate about it.
Now that's it for this one.
I'm going to round this one out.
You're going to hear the outro track going right now.
And I just hope y'all have a good one.
And I hope this one is what y'all are waiting for.
I hope, I don't think so, but I hope, and I hope I can get back on the horse with
this and maybe even start a new show with all the things that I've been
learning about podcasting along the way. I'm still trying to get that audio drama
going but man, voice actors are hard to come by and if I do it all myself it's
gonna be a struggle. So that's in the future right now. I'm gonna leave you all
with this and yeah, have a great one.
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