WOT Podcasting Techniques
It has been asked how the Waves of Tech develops, record, edit and distribute our Podcasts. Though the Waves of Tech crew is relatively new at podcasting, we have years of experience in the digital realm. A bit of history –
When we first decided to create a podcast there wasn’t much information on the web to get started. As with most podcasters, trial and error was the best method and over the past few months we have acquired better equipment and most importantly became smarter with product integration, pre and post production.
Pre-Production
The Waves of Tech uses shared Google Docs to prepare our show agenda and go over the outline in a pre-production meeting. Communications with the cast members is via Skype.
Equipment Listing
* Alesis multimix 8 Firewire Mixer
* MXL 990 Microphone
* Griffin iMic
* Macbook pro
* MSI PC Netbook
* EdirolR-09HR digital recorder
Software
* Leveator
* Audacity
* Ubercaster
* Skype
Feeds and hosting
* Feeds: Google Feedburner
* File Hosting: Self Hosted
Production
* A Skype conference call is established through the Mac Book Pro and the rest of the cast members using USB headsets
* The show host uses a MXL 990 microphone plugged into the XLR mixer connector.
Skype is feed into the Multil Mixer through a Griffin iMic to convert the Mac’s Mic in and Headphones jack into USB
* A MSI U100 mini is used to feed sound bites and music into the mix
* All mixed audio is feed through the mixer into an Edirol digital recorder.
* Completed recording is saved from the digital recorder in WAV format.
Post-Production
* The exported WAV file is loaded into Audacity to convert the stereo recording from stereo to mono
* The next steep in post-production is running the podcast though a product called Levelator which adjust the audio levels.
* Lastly, Ubercaster is used for post production editing, ID tagging and MP3 release.
Release
Once the MP3 is created, the file is uploaded for hosting along with the new RSS xml file and the feed is generated through Google’s Feedburner.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
