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Tis I, Lord Podcast. Are you yearning to equip yourself with the confidence to

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record? Elijah, the skilled podcast professional, is preparing himself for a

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tale of tools and skill that only a mighty podcaster may employ in one's

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podcast journey. Elijah, I do believe that we shall teach our weary wanderer

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the confidence that they strive to achieve. Shall we start a podcast? We shall!

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It's settled. Let's start a podcast. It's season two. It's it's here to have fun,

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right? I'm here, you're here, everybody's here. We're gonna talk podcasts. Gonna be

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great. I love it. Recording? Things? How to? We talked about the what. We got a

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little podcast foreplay. That was season one. I really think the season two is

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more about how to get deep and dirty and down with podcasting because a lot of

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people said, well, you have great interviews. This was nice tease. I understood

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kind of what goes on and what I need to do, but how do I actually do it? Why do I

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care? What does it matter? Recording. It matters. So we're gonna talk about that

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today. I'm gonna rant about USB microphones and why I detest them to

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my core. That's gonna be fun and I think that's it's gonna be good to nerd out

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about audio degradation. I'll get into that. Why do I care? What is this

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nerdy crap you're talking about? I don't know. Audio interfaces, headphones,

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recording, loopy loops, computer noise. Why am I a mentor wizard? An audio mentor?

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Wait, audio, audio wizard. How do you, how do you, whoo, podcast mentor? So excited.

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Can't speak. It's fine. It's fine. Gonna go up to my notes as you can hear the most

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rolling around because I forget everything I'm gonna say. Maybe I'm

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nervous. I don't know. Record your first podcast or maybe you want to level up. I

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don't know. Here's some hard truths. Ready? If you ramble, if your sound is less

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than good, if you mindlessly use AI tools and you sound unnatural, okay? If you

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don't have a point, you aren't entertaining and you allow your ego to

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take over. Or maybe you have a guest, you talk more than they do, you perform very

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little research, you're a lazy interviewer like, tell us about yourself. I've done

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nothing to educate myself about you. Please start so I can just sit here and go,

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wow, you're amazing. Or you sound like you have zero clue talking about what

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you're talking about. That's fun. And then you admit it. Oh, God. No, you may want to

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quit now. Or maybe I'll try to make you just kidding. It's cute that you want to

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start a podcast. It's fine. You may think I'm joking. I'm not. Deep down inside.

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This is serious. This is audio production stuff. If you want to get out there and

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you want to sound amazing, like even like Joe Rogan. Today, I was listening to Joe

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Rogan and my favorite, Tom Green, one of my favorite comedians at least. When they

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stop talking, you could hear the hiss. So there's always going to be a little

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noise. And why do I say that? Because you're always recording the room with

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your microphone. You want to start a podcast, you want to record yourself

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talking, you have a fun thing to say because you like talking and you get

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excited. I love that you have some creative energy and the tech barriers

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have been eliminated. So you can just start with anything you can tap to the

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sky and a genie from podcast land will say let's start a podcast and you do.

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I'm an extroverted only child who is told who has been told for his entire life

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that my opinions matter. So I get it. God help you.

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Woo. That's my spouse. She tells me to shut up daily and and then sometimes she

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even sells say Elijah find a find a quarter to go be allowed in. Go away. I

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get it. First season we talked about what I talked about how that's a tease the

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foreplay the excitement. Oh yeah. Now we get to business talking about the equipment

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that won't break the bank. Last forever. I'll talk about my favorites, my

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favorite brand and when you go to talkpodcastwithme.com slash podcast

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you'll see all the bloggy blog and the write-ups, the comparison and the almost

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nerdy things all show restraint. I promise because I get excited too. And

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after two decades I just kind of about this stuff and that's not what you

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need. You just need the goods. That way you'll be able to visually compare stuff

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the microphones how they work and I'll put some YouTube's on there so you can

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hear how they sound. Some people that do comparisons why am I gonna buy microphones

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to compare when they do it already? I don't know. It's gonna be fun. So sure is

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my favorite brand because I have an SM58. I actually lived for this microphone

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when I was coming out of college and I've had it since 15 years. It's the stage

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mic that you'll see all the comedians use. Pick one. Justin Bieber is not a

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comedian but he sang sometimes before he had the issues. I think the physical

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elements. It's not fun but it did. Then the lady who loves the football Taylor

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Swift she uses it. You'll see comedians like I don't know. Dave Chappelle, Kevin

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Hart. Kevin Hart's not tall but he has a great microphone and if he throws it and

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people you know do things like fist bump with it you've seen those guys that do

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the the the roasting on comedy network. Maybe you're seeing that in the American

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channels. They fist bump. Those are SM58s. That's a sure brand. Michael Jackson

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recorded thriller with an SM7. It's quite different than the modern sure

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microphones. The SM7B which people mistakenly think of Michael Jackson's

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microphone. It's the ones that come out in Theo Vaughn or Joe Rogan and you can

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see the maybe a cylinder shape that's kind of short and stubby. That's the SM7B.

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That's $400. Maybe five. There's SM58s kind of like the grand baby. It's a

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microphone that's rock solid. Great for microphone and podcast. $100? Not bad.

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There is the MV7 slash X. X's XLR. I'll get to that. It's about two and a

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quarter. It's a middle ground. If you're looking for something really long-term

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and more forgiving get that one. You're looking for that top end that Joe Rogan

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microphone I was talking about. You're not going to notice a big difference but

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you're going to feel real special. You know like those guys that have the

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Hawaiian shirts that are losing their hair and they drive Ferraris. You

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know they're missing something. Am I right ladies? Some people just like to

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drive the pickup trucks in snow without the traction control on. That's me. I just

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like to have fun. I like purpose. I like things that work and in Canada I need

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four-wheel drive or else I'm going to get stuck and the polar get bears are

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going to eat me. That's not good. I digress. That sure microphone is not the

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only brand. There's AKG that's been around forever in a day. You'll see them

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a lot of times at the gold headphones. Cold-ish and you'll see the microphones

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they have different USB and XLR ones. Again I'll get to the terminology in a

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minute about a hundred bucks. They're great for entry level and when you get

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into the Yetis and the Blues they're okay. I want to throw them in the garbage

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personally because they're USB. There's a Rode microphone. There's Audio Technica.

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There's those sort of brands. Respectfully to the Chinese friends. If you get the

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knockoffs that are sub-branded that are generic you know they're not going to be

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great quality and if they are it's going to be a fluke. My friends a lot of

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Chinese companies happen to do knockoff stuff. Build them cheaply and set them

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out because people look at dollars. Some things are good from different parts of

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the world and there are certain brands in Asia that are going to be stellar but a

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lot of these quote-unquote American made knockoffs they're too good to be true.

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Seriously you get different ones. The Rode Podcaster is that cylinder kind of

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broadcaster style microphone like radio style. That one's cool about 150 bucks and

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I'll get over prices and in the website to hit the links in the description no

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problem and you'll be able to see the comparisons and see what they sound like.

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Hear what they sound like? Same thing. If you get the USB microphone it's a little

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dangerous. I say that with with a blessing. People will use it and swear by it.

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It's fine. It's fine. It's fine and if you're wondering what equipment is right

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for you I charge 85 bucks. I have the options written out in a written

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summary. I'll compare like I will in the blog and we could talk about for an hour

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kind of figuring out what's good for you and what you want what you need not what

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you desire or what is it just cheap and get it and then be sad all day. Talk

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podcast with me.com connect. I reach out and we'll spend the time figuring it out.

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USB I have the testing to testing this for I must say hate too strong just I

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want to throw up. The reason for this is that you don't have any control. A lot of

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times the dumb microphone that's in front of you recording your voice is going

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to sound too low. It's not smart. It doesn't it doesn't care how loud you are

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how quiet you are. It just takes the noise in and goes here we go and it'll

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hear the chairs squeak and that's fine because I forgot about it. Hopefully

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didn't hear that. USB microphones drive me insane because you're there's no

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control. There's no it's it's easy which is lovely for someone who doesn't have

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the technical aptitude or budget but then again for 20 bucks more you can just

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spend up and get something that's industry standard the Yeti and the blue.

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Computers don't always have the tech inside the audio tech to give the

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microphone enough to get to that mediocrity that average that standard of

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sound that you need so you don't have to fart around with it in post or after

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you hit record and are done in your audio editing program. You want to just

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have snacks and take nap once in a while take your dog for a walk right? You

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don't want to fart around all day trying to mess with the sound and and

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wonder why there's annoying little hisses and distracting crap in the

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background do you? If you do get a Yeti fine they're okay but if you don't have a

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great sounding room you're gonna need something a little more forgiving that's

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where you spend up and then you get to that threshold and then you just kind of

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don't really notice unless you're saying unless you're an engineer unless you're

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the Beatles otherwise why would you care? It's all gonna sound the same wild

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isn't it? But if you spend up you'll get control you get a mixer perhaps like I

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have spend a couple on her box on a mixer and I could tweak the the mids the

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treble or the high end and the bassy bass to make it sound oh so sweet the

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middle-aged women they swoon to this voice because I tweak just so and if I

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get in the lower range hmm oh my that is a treat all seriousness it's too low

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and if you hit the gain button and the knobby knob on the Yeti that's amplifying

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everything in your room before it gets to the microphone so it's almost like this

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big whoosh or bubble surrounding your microphone and smacking it of

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shoving it all into your microphone at once and that's why you get this loud

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hissing noise because the air in your room you're not gonna hear with the

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normal naked ear but if you amplify the poop out of that you're gonna get annoying

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level noise and even people without ADHD drive them insane they have to crank it

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so loud in the car radio that they could barely hear it and then when they hear a

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commercial that's dumped in dynamically they're gonna blow their speakers in the

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eardrum and they're gonna cry all day you don't want that if I take an XLR the

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microphone with three pins in the back it takes a cable into a box called an

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audio interface that's like the sorry middleman middle person the intermediary

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between your microphone and the thing that is going to edit a recording right

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audio interfaces it's commonly known as a preamp only it's a cheaper all-in-one

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solution preamp is kind of like a rack it's hardware it's it's it's meant for

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recording studios audio interface all in one solution they'll have a volume in a

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game it'll have some higher end ones will have some ability to change the sound

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the levels like I talked about the low end the high end all that fun stuff to

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make it oh so sweet by most time it just have the basics like there's a focus

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right that's really popular it's red box kind of like a rectangle has two mic

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inputs and some sound adjustments cool pump up the volume and you'd be okay

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as long as you're in a good range I usually shoot for somewhere between

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minus 12 and minus 6 and that way I have some room to to giggle and to get

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excited and to get closer to zero above zero is where all hell breaks loose you

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get distorted you get annoying crackleys crap in your ears and it just not a

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party anybody wants to be part of so that's where I like to control if you if

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you try to manipulate the sound through a button like a knob a gain knob

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amplification thingy or you try to do it after it's gonna sound like half a

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garbage and if you're trying to get somewhere with this thing to do stuff to

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be taken seriously you're gonna want to spend a little box a few money a few

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dollars so you have a couple hundred dollars that you're invested in one to

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200 for the the microphones I just picked sure for fun C's for now there's

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other options and then you have the cable a cold plated is a good way to go

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because you can alter sorry get rid of prevent some of the interference I don't

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have one now but those those XLR Pro low noise audio cables about 20 bucks enough

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of a length to get you from your microphone to your your desk or wherever

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it is you're recording from and then you have that that focus right thing it's

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usually about 200 bucks so all in you could be looking at three to five hundred

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dollars for something that's very long-term very lasting very good quality

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and less farting around that's the real point of this episode no farting around

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I want to take naps any chips I don't want to screw around with editing software

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and bang my head on the desk no I don't have time for that preamp covered that

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that's the audio interface the gizmo that makes your sound better that doesn't

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amplify but it brings your low volume up it's like the smart version it's like the

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brain of your microphone audio interface mixer is fun as I said I can I can add

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in stuff here because there's guitar inputs and microphone inputs that was

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fun when I could go around podcasting with my buddies pre-covid when

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everybody cared to hang out in person now everybody just kind of looks at me like

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they have a cross like the vampire get away what are you gonna do so I keep it

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in my room and hook up the iPad once in a while and then push buttons like a

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sound and gizmo and I'll have recordings of fart noises and stuff because I'm

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12 on the inside and that for me is a mixer and that's why I need want to pipe

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in or put through music if I want to do live stuff I can do that because I'm

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I'm nerdy that way I just enjoy it for you don't need it unless you're gonna

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have a bunch of buddies and friends over and do it live otherwise have the focus

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right or whatever comparable device usually within a hundred to three hundred

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dollars if you go too cheap that some of the fifty dollar forty dollar ones you

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you're playing with fire it's just gonna either explode or be garbage and you

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don't want that and then you're farting around again no no no no farting around

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okay so we got the microphone we got the cable because you don't like USB

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microphones because we're here for a long time not just for a good time you

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know you got the microphone you got the audio interface you got the cable now

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you need the earphones and I use the DT 990s these are super fancy-dancey they

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are well-rounded but they're kind of flat and they're bass heavy and sometimes

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you have to get used to the different way of doing that your headphones that

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you have are probably going to be EQ automatic the software is going to

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equalize special with your AirPods just a thing the software is going to do the

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thing to make it sound just balanced and this is just raw different you don't

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need to spend a couple hundred dollars on your phones as I try to spin my hand

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around them for some weird random reason I don't know pointing or showing the

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shape I don't know if they're comfy they're a little heavy but they do a

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great job and you can see if you don't if you spend a little more I don't know

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fifty to two hundred dollars on headphones make sure they're wired

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because otherwise you get a delay with the wireless right not fun what else do

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we got so now that you're almost pro podcaster you're gonna have to learn

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about the noise that's created right you have computers you have fans you have

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grounding issues you have plugs that are old you have electronics you have all

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these things you got to worry about and then the furnace air conditioner if you

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have the floor bent it's gonna make a noise just like I'm pretty sure it is

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now awesome so if you have this cable from the microphone going to your audio

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box and it's over top of a power cord you're gonna get interference there's

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a little bit of hummer noise it comes from that the plug that wire got to look

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out for that don't cross over if you're going to put a bunch of different

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gizmos say if you have the audio interface that needs power plus you have

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a computer in the same plug you if you have older wiring you'll get a grounding

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loop a little hum and that creates a whole lot of noise that's troubleshooting

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nightmare that not even engineers like try different plugs different outlets

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away from each other not just up and down the differences but literally a

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different plug in the room extension cords you could be getting into dangerous

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territory if they're not high-end they can carry a bit of an interference that's

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something to look out to so you're gonna get all this noise if you plug into your

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computer you could get through USB sometimes if you have a not great

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computer you'll get the sound from the electronics or the board or the fan yay

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careful with that so you want a computer with a low fan or laptop that you're

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recording with depends on your budget right or better yet take the take the

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gizmo that you have the recording box maybe hang it on the wall if you want or

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put a little shelf in your closet and then have the microphone with a nice

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little stand as if your tail is swifty-swift on stage you could do that

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just remember to open the door once in a while to breathe and shut it again and

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then keep going if your computer's in different room that's ideal but if you

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can't just make sure you have a low fan or maybe it doesn't need to run and as a

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variable thingy Magiggy or you put in a little box I don't know you'll figure it

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out there's also little boxes that you put around that have styrofoam inside of

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them that'll isolate noise there they can be costly but you can make a cardboard

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box with some pink insulation inside and that'll do the trick it's ugly AF but

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it'll do shielded cables are gold plated that prevents the noise from going back

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and forth between the microphone and the cables and then your audio gizmo in the

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computer and wherever else it plans on going today and that should cover most

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of the issues believe it or not the overlapping is huge it'll cause so much

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noise don't be messy with your cables please are you overwhelmed because his

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podcast mentor audio wizard has blown your mind with nerdy stats that you never

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knew you cared about maybe you want to throw money at the situation huh $400 a

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month hear me out for podcast episodes make them magical do my best as long as

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they're not train noises and complete annoyingness like it's realistic a

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professional audio I can only do so much with quality recording but I can edit

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and then make it sound amazing every episode so you don't have to fart around

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you go back to you back to the chips and the napping maybe even the sports I

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don't know I can fart around no sweat 30-minute call every month that's

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included I can coach you consult brainstorm it help you with being a better

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conversationalist if you need it if you're already a pro don't sweat it if

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you want digital support on top of that I got you I like to brainstorm and

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Google Docs or Notion Docs can do it real time and that that jumps up the

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dopamine for me I get excited DMs tech emails if you do that sort of thing and

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that's all included in the monthly package a little bit of pizzazz and not

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just the editing because I'm I'm a person too and I care about the quality so

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400 bucks a month what do you think would you worth would it be worth throwing

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money at it maybe if you got a couple sponsors you weren't just starting out

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I don't know talk podcast with me dot com check out all the contact details and

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the linky links in the description what do you want to talk about nothing you're

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overwhelmed so you need decent microphone you need the cable you need the box

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that's called the audio interface you need some headphones that aren't blue

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toothy because the the wireless is a delay and that that's just too much

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farting around no don't have to spend 200 bucks on headphones like I do because

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I'm an audio nerd and I like them and they found they give my ears a hug I

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like that you don't have to hug your ears it's weird for some people but not

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for me worry about the wires that you're going to hook up make sure your your

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room is decent don't have any tile on your floor with you know tiled walls

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that's going to create a whole lot of echo and that's a nightmare to edit

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because that's again too much farting around put a floor rug on hide under a

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blanket if you have to or make that ugly AF box cardboard and some the pink

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stuff and then shove your microphone inside of the ugly AF box and that'll

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get rid of 90% of the noise you're welcome no bouncing it bounces inside goes

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nowhere it's nice so that's it that's recording that's how to do it and that's

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kind of a very eccentric ADHD way of planning things I'm sorry it's not as

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organized and prompt to as you like but I did digress and that's entertaining and

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the USB don't get it unless you don't want to be friends with me anymore or you

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want me to block you forever go ahead I mean if you have to but with a little

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bit of effort and a few extra plugs and wires you're gonna get like ten times a

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hundred times a sound and you have control people like control these days

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especially the Gen Xers it's nice all right I've done enough talking email me

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hi a podcast talk podcast with me.com almost screwed up my own email address

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got help us and the Insta threads and LinkedIn I'm at kind of on Insta more on

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threads and LinkedIn because I can be unhinged or pretend not to care about

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corporate life it's nice all right episode one coming I don't know what I'm

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gonna talk about next but it's gonna be fun and it's gonna help you with your

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podcast journey it's an adventure enjoy it I'll see you soon

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let's start a podcast