LIVE Podcasting! What could go wrong?

Podwrecked

Episode #026

• Recorded Live at the Howell Branch Library in Fredericksburg during the Virginia Podcasters Association (VAPODA.org) Meetup.

• Tim and Kyle have been experimenting with how to produce a live show

• Nate and Preston attended our October 2019 Meetup to see how the secret sauce is made

• We recorded this BEFORE DC Podfest (dcpodfest.com) where Kyle attended for the 4th year and Tim for the 3rd Year!

• We spent an hour setting up our gear

• We think that coil rolling of audio cables is a lost art

• We go through what gear we use to take our podcast “LIVE”

What did we learn?

• Live includes a lot of improvs and you have to be good on your feet (or mouth)

• Location can cause problems with sound (e.g. echo, room size, power, lighting)Soundproofing on-the-fly can work but it does not completely remove microphone bleed.

• Our microphones were air-gapped and the audio files used the double-header technique where we each record our own audio file and they are synced together in post-production.

• Kyle is using the ZOOM H4N Pro and an Audio-Technia ATR2100 microphone.

• Tim is using the ZOOM H5 (just to be bigger) and a Samson Q2U microphone.

• Headphones help you hear your sound and hitting record on a portable recorder can make or break your live recording.

Quotes

“Little things can make such a big difference during recording.”
― Matt Cameron
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