WEBVTT - The Ultimate Guide to Podcast Equipment 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.880 It is important to put the effort into sounding good. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.920 Not just your voice, which should sound good, but also 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.560 the recording of your voice should sound good. People will 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:22.760 forgive lower quality video than they will lower quality audio. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.159 Going to do a solo episode today, I know you 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.120 guys seem to enjoy when I do these solo episodes, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.520 and I'm looking forward to this one because this one 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.080 is kind of a pickup of a blog post that 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.839 I wrote back in twenty eighteen on will Lucas Co, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.720 which is my website, check me out. Yeah, so I 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.440 wrote this blog post entitled the gear you need if 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.480 you wanted to build a highly rated podcast, and I'll 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.880 even link that in the show notes, the link to 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.040 that blog post, and I'll link everything I'm about to 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.560 talk about in the blow in the show notes as well. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:07.200 But today I wanted to update that list, so we're 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.560 going to talk about the gear you need to make 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.840 a highly successful, highly rated podcast. And so I've been 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.960 privileged to be podcasting since about twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:24.280 and previous to that, I did radio since I want 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.399 to say nineteen ninety nine, back in the nineteen hundreds, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.360 nineteen ninety eight, I think actually so I've been doing 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.200 this for a long time. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.600 It sounds wild to say that I've. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.880 Been doing some since the nineteen hundreds, but I guess 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.600 I've been doing it since nineteen hundreds, So. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.240 You know, those things correlate. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.120 So podcasting is a lot like radio, and so having 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:50.000 all those years of radio experience translated super duper well 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:55.320 into podcasting. And it's not that I want to say 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.200 this because I don't want people get confused like you 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.080 have to have that sort of radio background to be 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.360 good at podcasting, because you obviously don't. There's so many 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.840 people who are successful at podcasting that have never been 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.480 in a radio studio, and so I just wanted to 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.040 clear that up before I went further. So I talked 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.000 about a lot of things in that blog post that 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.600 I will rehash today because a lot of the gear 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:22.519 that I'm using I still like to use. And there 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.560 here's what I will say about podcasting, or actually i'll 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.760 start with me and equipment, and so there are three 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.800 four you know, there are certain levels of equipment or 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.040 software I will talk about today that will and I'll 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.480 provide options. So if you want to have the expensive option, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.760 I'll provide that the middle of the row option, I'll 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.240 provide that, and the inexpensive option, I will write that 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.960 or say that also. And so, but what's important to 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.799 know at least about me. I don't know how you work, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.280 but this is how I work. I struggle to produce 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:02.760 creative product, creative outcomes with cheap stuff. It's just really 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.919 difficult for me to do that. And so I remember 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.760 when I was learn I'm a musician, so when I 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.920 was learning to play drums, I needed to learn on 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.280 a quality drum set. Because I'm playing on a cheap 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.240 drum set. I just couldn't get it. And so maybe 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.200 you don't have that issue. But if I'm learning how 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.079 to do something, I need quality tools to learn how 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:22.400 to do it. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:22.639 Now. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.919 Once I got it, then I can go use whatever 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.640 and I can do it the thing on whatever. But 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.440 it's difficult for me to learn using cheap stuff. And 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.440 not to say that everything that's inexpensive is cheap, I'm 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.160 just saying that. There are a whole lot of blaw posts, 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.720 a whole lot of podcasts about you know, you can 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.240 do certain things just using your phone, and you can 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.280 do certain things, you know, going completely free. And while 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.040 that may be completely true, I don't learn that way. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.920 It's difficult for me to produce a podcast just using 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.800 my phone, although that is extremely popular, I see need 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.000 to say popular. It's possible you can produce a podcast 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.920 just using your phone. Now, with that said, I don't 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.560 know anybody who has a super successful podcast and just 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.560 does it using their phone, and so you can start 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.240 that way. And I think it's necessary to get reps 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.080 in by using the tools that you have at your 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.320 disposal and not investing a whole bunch of money or 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.279 a whole bunch of things into something that you're not 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.200 going to be serious about anyway. So I do think 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.480 there's value in using the tools that you already have 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.520 at your exposal. But I think it's more important to 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.920 prove to yourself and to the world that you are 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.000 serious and that you're going to do this thing before 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.360 you have all the dollars invested into it. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:42.200 So I think it's. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.039 More important to do it that way, and more so 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.719 proving that you are in this to win it, versus 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.240 thinking that you're going to scale a big podcast just 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.480 using a limited amount of tools. I just don't know 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.560 people who do that, and so I'm just being honest. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.160 With y'all. So we talk about that, talk about us, you. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.159 Know, setting up your phone and doing things, you know, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.640 talking into the audio recorder. Start that way, completely fine, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.799 and I encourage you to do that. I will advise 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.719 people to do that, But it's not necessarily again to 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.520 belabor the point, and unintentionally, it's not necessarily because I 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.360 believe that you're gonna win that way. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:21.360 I just think that it. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.520 Is an important step to proving that you are serious 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.400 about this. So what I'm saying that all that to 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.520 say is I did mention I have a radio background, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.360 and so I had the privilege or else. I have 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.279 a marketing and video production company, so I have the 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.720 privilege of already having a lot of the equipment. When 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.000 I decided to go and start doing a podcast, already 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.560 had a bunch of equipment. I already had computers, I 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:51.080 already had keyboards and instruments, and I already had recording devices. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.719 And so for me, like that's just a playground that 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.760 I have the privilege to play in. And so not 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.800 everybody has that. And so again we're gonna talk about 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:04.000 all these tools. So I want to start here talking 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.760 about just that very thing, recording software, and so I'm 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.599 going to give you a couple of different levels. Most 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.080 of all of these things that I'm going to talk 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.480 about today, I have, and I'm even gonna do a 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.720 video version of this podcast, so you'll be able to 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.800 check this out on YouTube and actually see all the stuff. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.880 But I record, I'm start with the higher end stuff, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.560 and then I'll talk about the middle of the row, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.279 and then I'll talk about the inexpensive end or free options. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.320 I record using Apple Logic Pro, and so I record 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.599 using that because I learned how to record using things 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.479 like pro Tools and Apple Logic, and so if I 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.120 were to start over again, there are way more tools 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.760 available on the market today that you can use to record, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.320 especially recording yourself and or you know, guests, if you're 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.360 going to have a guest podcast. There are way more 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.360 things on the market today because podcasting is way bigger 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.000 than it was when I started that. Are you know 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.200 these things are available to you, and are you know 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.320 you can amazon it? You'll have it tomorrow. But Apple 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.720 Logic Pro is one of the things that I record, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.200 the only thing I pretty much record or I should 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.440 say edit with, because I records using a couple of 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.880 different things but editing, particularly I record using. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.280 Apple Logic Pro is powerful. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:22.080 It does way more than than it's necessary to podcast 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.400 because it's designed for you know, audio production in a 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.280 big way, So you can do everything from scoring movies 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.080 on it to doing you know, music making beats on it. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.720 But just to be clear, it's very powerful also for 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.400 recording your voice and voices of people you may be 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.000 interviewing on your show. So what's important to me is 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.600 that I have an interface that is very easy to use. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.680 And so sometimes, because I've been doing this for a 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.720 long time, I will go through and you know, when 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.720 I'm recording, I can see the waveform of my voice, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.760 and so I've been doing this so long, I can 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.760 look get the waveform and find things that don't make 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.120 sense because I know how a voice should look in 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.559 wave form. And so when I see a quick little 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.640 spike in the audio and there's not something anything to 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.760 the left or right of it, that's probably either a 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.040 click in a voice something like that, or something like that, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.480 and I can just go and quickly edit that out 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.880 super duper fast without even listening back to it, cause 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.640 I know what it looks like. Is I've been doing 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.800 this for a long time. So Aple Logic Pro I 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.559 believe right now is like two hundred bucks. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:30.160 You can get it. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.840 And what's cool about it is it's not like most 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.880 software anymore where you're paying monthly for. It's like a 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.800 subscription that never ends. Like once you buy Apple Logic, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.960 you have Apple Logic and you don't have to have 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.640 a subscription necessarily. So I'm actually, you know, in I 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.200 kind of don't like that about today's world, especially as 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.480 a consumer, maybe a producer, but not as a consumer. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.720 Having you can't just buy software you know, so often anymore, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.920 y there's a subscription for which is whack. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.280 But I digress. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.080 So if you don't want to spend that much on 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.400 an audio editor and or recorder, because you can do 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.920 both in Apple Logic. You have things like Adobe Audition, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.319 which I also have, I just don't use it because 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.040 I don't love I shouldn't say because of people from 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.319 Adobe listening to this. I just I'm not a big 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.120 Adobe fan, and I kind of see Adobe a lot 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.320 like I see a lot of Microsoft products. They just 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.559 don't work for the way my brain works. Apple products 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.520 work way better for the way my brain works. But 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.280 with I said, I do have Adobe's Creative Cloud because 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.520 my video production team works a lot in Premiere and 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.079 it's the only reason I have Adobe Creative Cloud because 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.280 even like the designs I want to have anymore, I 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.360 can do a lot of that in Canva. And so 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.040 Adobe Creative Cloud comes with Adobe Audition, which is a 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.840 doll which means digital audio workstation. Adobe Audition is a 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.960 doll which you can can use to record and edit 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.520 your voice and the voices of your guests, and you 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.839 can do that very easily. Again, it comes as part 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.640 of the Creative Cloud. So if you have Adobe Creative Cloud, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.640 you can probably already download this as part of the 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.079 suite of tools you have. So I mean you get 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:23.120 Adobe Premiere, you get Adobe Photoshop Illustrator, all these things, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.960 and an audition depending on which level of the Creative 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.760 Cloud you subscribe to from Adobe Audition from Adobe. I'm sorry, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.960 but as part of the Creative Cloud. There's different versions 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.560 of this, especially if you're in school, you can get 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.600 a discount for the Creative Cloud, but you know there 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.680 are versions where you can get like twenty one dollars 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.600 a month and you can get Adobe Audition for that. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.240 On the free side, there's programs like Audacity, which I've 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.360 used before. Again, it's kind of a scaled back version 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.960 of both Apple Logic and Audition, but for the most part, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.320 for most people, it will work and it's free. And 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.160 so it's an open source audio editing you know software, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.880 and so it's free to use. You can learn it 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.280 pretty quickly, and you can export your audio edit your 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.840 audio record into it, you know, and we'll talk about 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.080 the tools you'll need to record into it in a moment, 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.880 but you can do all that with Audacity and it's free. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.920 And then going from there we talk about hardware recorders. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:24.920 So I mentioned. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.960 Recording software when I'm talking about Apologic, Audition and Audacity, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.719 but I pretty I don't record into software often. Right 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.280 right now, I'm recording into software because I'm not interviewing anybody. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.160 But if i am interviewing somebody, I'm going to use 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.840 an external recorder just because of the way my setup 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.480 is designed. And if you ask twenty different people on 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.800 podcasting setups, you will get twenty different answers. I'm telling 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.120 you what Lucas does, and so I've been doing this 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.160 for in my own experience for a long time. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:53.920 This is what I do. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.160 It works for me, and it probably would work for 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.800 you also, But external recorders. The most important thing you 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:07.120 learn when you start recording audio or video or writing documents. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.280 Is saving it. Because what you. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.960 Will find is when you have a machine that is 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.440 doing you know where you input the work into the machine. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.440 If you don't save it, you will lose work. And 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.839 it raised your hand. If you've ever lost work, you 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.920 see technology before. And so I like to use external 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.719 recorders because if I'm recording directly into matter of fact, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.840 while I'm saying that I'm gonna save this, which I 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.640 can do while I'm recording, and then I have to 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.240 stop and actually even to the program crash, it will 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.280 likely save an AUTOSI, an auto save version. So it's 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.960 less likely I will lose it if my computer crash 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.480 right now or the software crash, but it's still possible. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.920 So going back to hardware, I personally am a big 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.680 fan of recording into a dedicated device. And the reason 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.000 why is because again I'm gonna say this a hundred times, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.920 I've been doing this a long time, and when you've 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.480 been doing certain things for a long time, there you 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:10.000 develop these habits or ticks because of the things you've 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.720 experienced to where you don't like to do things other ways. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.319 And the reason I don't like to record directly into 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.439 computers is because computers do crash. Not that other hardware 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.200 does not crash, but through hardware is probably only doing 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.280 one thing. It's just accepting your audio and it's recording it. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.680 That's probably all it's doing. Your computer is doing probably 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.720 twenty thirty forty one hundred other things at the same time, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.200 is trying to record your stuff. Hear your stuff, record 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.920 your stuff, display your stuff, all all of those things 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.000 and even more stuff. You probably got tabs open in 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.559 the background, and all these things open up more gateways 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:49.559 for things. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:49.959 To go wrong. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.920 And so I prefer to record using an external device 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.720 that is just doing what I'm asking you to do. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.000 Record. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.240 So I record, for the most part, especially when I'm 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.360 doing an interview, I record using a zoom Age six, 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.600 which is a six track portable recorder. I can carry 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.000 it with this little case. It's like a size of 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.160 a book, and the case of the size of a book. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.600 The device is half the size of a book with 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:21.840 wise at least, and I can plug different microphones into it, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.000 so I can add six different tracks, and so if 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.480 I'm interviewing somebody, I can be interviewing several different people 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.800 at one time, and each of them have their own volume. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.120 So let's say I'm sitting in front of three other 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.560 people and one person talks really really loud, other person 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.440 talks really really quietly. I can turn the person whose 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.480 voice is really quiet up louder and while keeping the 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:50.080 person who talks loud their volume down lower, recording them 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.640 that way because you know you want independent So I've 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.560 used to it when I was didn't have a lot 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.080 of money. I was trying to record using you know, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:03.520 one singular input, and you can control the various volumes 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.000 people talk at because everybody's being recorded to one channel 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.200 and so you can't like splice out one person's voice 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.720 from another. But if you're recording on different tracks and 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.280 then you import that audio into a doll like Adobe 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.320 or you know final cut sorry Logic like I use, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.880 then you can see everybody's voice on their independent channel, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.360 and I can make tweaks to your voice without touching mind. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.120 So it's super super important and also has phantom power, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.920 which means I can plug a microphone into it that 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.960 is not necessarily powered itself. It's not like I can't 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.920 unplug it into a wall. But this microphone is just 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.840 a microphone and it needs power from some source. And 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.840 so the Zoom eighty six has phantom power on it, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.920 which is what it's called when you need the power 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.680 a microphone, so it will provide the power your microphone 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.880 needs to be able to accept your voice. And you're 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.400 recording directly to an SD card, so the audio is 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.080 not being record record it to the device. You are 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.520 putting in another SD card into the device which it's 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:07.080 recording to. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:08.480 So it's another. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.520 Level there of security for the audio that you are 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:16.640 interested in capturing. The device I don't have, but I 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.840 think it is a really really cool device. Is a 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.080 road Caster Pro. I've used it, I've seen other people 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.400 use it. It's amazing for podcasts recording. It's pretty much 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.800 a whole podcast studio in one. And what I love 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.080 about the road Caster Pro is not only can you 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.760 you know, use Bluetooth with it, but it has programmable 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.480 sound pads. So let's say you are, you know, recording 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.920 a podcast where you want to have sound effects. You know, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.120 these are just pads that you can trigger at any 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.120 moment and give yourself like an audience clap or laugh 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.240 or you know, a trumpet or a fire truck horn, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.040 and you can program all these sound effects into it 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.240 and trigger them, you know, at the push of a button, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.360 and all of that stuff happens in the recording in 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:58.960 real time. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:05.280 Suber super cool. And then the inexpensive route, I mean. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:06.879 So I should go back. Actually, so the zoom A 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.159 six which I use, is about three hundred and fifty bucks. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.680 The road Castered Pro a little bit more expensive. That's 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:13.720 about six hundred dollars. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.119 Today. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.280 There are different versions of it, so you don't have 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.760 to have the Pro, but the the task Cam DRO five, 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.840 which I have, also is one hundred dollars. And the 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.760 task Cam what's cool about it, it's compact, it's more affordable. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.720 It's about one hundred dollars, and it has microphones built 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:35.159 into it, so stereo microphones which are built into it, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.040 so you can legit, just pull out the device, hold 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.600 it in your hand, and record people right into the device, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.160 so you don't even need an external microphone because they're 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:48.240 built into it. And it also records into a Nest card. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.360 So it's a great choice for people who are beginning 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.399 and just trying to figure out if podcasting is for 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:55.600 them or if you just don't want to spend a 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.800 bunch of money on this equipment and you just got 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.480 something saying you gotta get it out. Rove is a 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.320 good solution for you. So let's talk about microphones, because 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.120 I did talk about this on. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.200 The blog posts. Because the each. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.719 Of the microphones I'm about to mention to you I 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.800 have now, and the first one, which is the more 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.679 expensive one, I did not have when I wrote the 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.560 blog post, but it is the Sure SM seven B. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.640 It's like a four hundred dollars microphone, and I love 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.639 this microphone. It's my favorite microphone out of everyone that 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:31.440 I have. It is because it's excellent for vocals spoken word, 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.680 and it's not necessarily designed for much anything else than 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:35.280 that it is. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.160 Designed for voices. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.359 I'm actually not even using that microphone in this moment, 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.720 but I love the microphone not only because it sounds amazing, 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.880 but it also looks amazing when you are recording and 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.159 recording video at the same time a low profile, it's 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.480 kind of stocky. It's just it's a beautiful microphone to 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.639 look at. And then the one I'm actually recording on 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.399 right now is a microphone I've had, almost, if not 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.760 since I started doing podcasts at all. I think I've 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.679 had this microphone since like the the two thousands, like 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:12.200 the first decade of the generation. So the road in 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.680 T one, which I'm recording on right now, is the 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.640 studio microphone. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.120 It's super dupe. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.000 I mean, I've had to think for a long time. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.440 Its super duper durable. I don't beat it up, cause 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.880 you know, I take care of my stuff. But it's 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.480 also good for musicians. So I talked about the uh 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.200 SM seven B, which is great for vocals. The NT one, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.840 which I'm recording to right now, is versatile, so you 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.040 can use it for audio I'm sorry now audio. You 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.920 can use it for vocals and if you're trying to 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:46.160 sing into it, if you're trying to record UH acoustic 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.000 instruments into it. You can use this NT one also, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.159 But it sounds amazing too. It's just not it's a 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:56.399 it's a studio microphone, so it's not as necessarily designed 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.400 for people who are just doing podcasts like the SM 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.200 seven B is. If you're doing spoken word, that'sh your microphone. 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.360 But you can also do this with the Sindheiser E 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.959 eight thirty five, which you also have, and we actually 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.280 use that microphone as the general house microphone. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.520 For Lucille's, which is my jazz club that I have. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.359 And so the eaight thirty five is a vocal microphone also, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.680 but it's super duper rugged. I cannot tell you how 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.479 many times that I've seen that microphone dropped. I mean, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.600 we have like ten of them, but I've seen them dropped, 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.400 beat up, you know, these things get dinged up. They 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.080 are great for live performers and even in person interviews 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:37.600 because if you're out on the streets and you're doing 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.439 in person interviews, you're probably gonna beat the mic up. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.960 A little bit. But the EA thirty five, so. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.000 Like one hundred dollars microphone, still sounds amazing, travels super 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.399 duper well, and it just it just handles rough environments 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.600 way way well, way more well than like they rolled 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.200 in T one ever would because it's just not designed 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.520 for traveling that way. It's a studio microphone. It's designed 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.440 to be mounted and left alone. So that's it on microphones. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.800 And again, I will put all this stuff in the 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.280 show notes, and I'm probably even update the blog post 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.919