Recording Your First Episode

[00:00:00] It's time to record our first episode here in our how to start a podcast series. It's time. We've talked about gear, we've talked about ideal listener Persona. We've talked about setup. And now let's start recording. So the most important thing when it comes to recording your podcast is to be prepared. I'm an old Boy scout. That's the motto. But it really, really is true, because if you go into an interview or a solo show monologue like this, or to talk to a co host and you're not ready, it's gonna be really challenging. You know, there's nothing more difficult in any kind of speaking than winging it. I don't go into my YouTube videos winging it. I have a very detailed outline that I follow, and I would strongly encourage you to do your homework, do your research, create an outline, and be prepared. Be prepared to be successful. And you can take this however far you want. Some people go through and script the whole thing and have a teleprompter and a reading from it. That's just a little too much for me. But I do need to have some structure, some organization. And really, it's to fall back on, because if I just come into this and turn the microphone and the camera on, then it's all on me. All the pressure is on me. So, like an ounce of prevention, here is a pound of results. In the end, when it comes to creating really great content in terms of recording, I'm going to give options for local recording. If it's just you or if you're interviewing anyone, then what software we like there, I'll do the latter first because it's really straightforward, is use Riverside. Riverside is a fantastic piece of software to conduct remote interviews or discussions in really high quality format. They record up to 4k video. They have multi channel recording, and it's lossless. So if your Internet kind of buffers or drops out, it'll record everything locally on your computer and upload those bits to the cloud. If it's just you or you and a co host and you want to just record locally, if you're on a Mac, you can use something like quicktime. If you are an open source person, you can use something like Obs. And if you're on a windows machine, there is a stock kind of sound recorder you can use there. You can use Riverside if it's just you as well, you know, it's a call recording tool, but there's nothing to say. You can't just use Riverside to record everything we talked about mic technique a little bit in the previous video. In case you didn't catch that. You want to be pretty close. I'm about this far away from the microphone right now. It is a little bit below me and pointing up right at my mouth, and that's really important. So you don't want it right in front of you, especially for if you're doing video because it would be obscuring your face. But you do want it pointing right at your mouth because the pickup pattern of the microphone is important and that's how it'll pick up the sound. The best way. You want to be talking straight ahead. You don't want to be talking up or down because your voice changes when that happens. So that's a very brief overview of how to use a microphone properly and what software we like for in person and remote recordings. I hope this helps. To learn more about what we do at Castos, head to castos.com dot. In our next video, we're going to be talking about editing your podcast and getting it live into the world.

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