Technical Details: How We Do Our Podcast

For those that want the details of how we produce our podcast

  • We record off of two Shure SM7B Cardioid Studio Vocal Mics with windscreens.
    They are plugged into an Alesis Multimix 8 mixer, than plugs in via USB to our Mac computer.
  • We use Sound Studio 3 to record right into the Mac. That’s a downloadable program. Then use the Compress filter to even out the sound.
  • Then I import it into a program called Levelator (free, downloadable), which refines our voices even more to make them sound even.
  • That gets imported into Garageband where I make the final mix and export it as a podcast to iTunes.
  • Then I convert it to two mp3s—one for Broadband at 48kbps and the other for dial-up at 16kbps.
  • Finally we upload it to our website, and use a WordPress blog and Feedburner, which sends our link to iTunes and other subscription services.