Tee and Chuck talk about the many things to consider about starting your podcast adventure aside from the hardware and software.

Topics

• Introduction
• Pick a topic and identify your audience
• Differentiating yourself
• Standing behind your own voice
• Promoting and business cards
• Outline vs. script
• Adjusting your tone based on topic
• The caution of a scripted podcast
• The challenge of unscripted
• The role of a facilitator

Links

• The Topic is Trek
• Happy Hour from the Tower
• Break Point
• Manager Tools
• Gotham Girls
• Backseat Producers

Get In Touch

• Listener Line 703-791-1701
• Website
• Watch on Twitch

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Tee and Chuck discuss what it takes to record “on the road”. When you’re not in the studio, what are the challenges to getting clean audio and how can you address them?

Topics

• Introduction
• Environment
• Sidebar: Edward James Olmos
• How much ambience do you want?
• Tee’s story about the break room
• Mitigating background noise with the mic
• Monitor your recording session with headphones
• Using a pre-amp and the set up cost
• What is your objective and how to haul your equipment
• Digital recorders
• Have a backup plan
• Hearing yourself on delay
• Tee’s story about “the break room”
• Addressing “the break room” scenario
• Tee’s story about the International Spy Museum
• Backup plan specifics
• RF interference
• Addressing transitions
• Adjusting your workflow
• Don’t let your lack of studio inhibit your creativity
• Tee’s predictions
• Closing

Get In Touch

• Listener Line 703-791-1701
• Website https://podcastingfordummies.com
• Watch on Twitch https://twitch.tv/TheTeeMonster

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So many choices, options, and prices – which software is right for your? Tee and Chuck help you sort through what you need to do audio editing for your podcast.

Topics and links

• Tangent: Hot Fuzz (Movie)
• Non-linear editing
• Ethical editing
• Linear editing
• Tip: Recording an audio patch or pickup
• Audacity
• Tangent: Open Source Software
• GarageBand
• Cakewalk by Bandlab
• Investing in bigger budget Software
• Adobe Audition
• Logic Pro X – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/logic-pro/id634148309?mt=12
• Levelator

Get in touch

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• Website
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In this episode we cover a wide variety of hardware topics in this episode to get you started (and perhaps thoughts of upgrades.) We go from economical to high-end. We also cover some lessons learned along the way so you can avoid the same pitfalls we learned the hard way.

Topics

• Headsets for streaming and podcasting
• The Shure SM58
• A simple mixer – Behringher Xenyx 802
• Mixing with Discord
• The Shure SM7B
• The MXL 990
• Addressing a microphone
• Dynamic and condensor microphones
• The Blue Yeti
• Latency
• The Shure MV51
• Røde Procaster and Podcaster
• Røde Reporter
• RødeCaster Pro
• Røde PodMic
• Heil PR40
• Tips to find the best mic for you
• Bundles
• Shotgun microphones
• Lavalier microphones
• Desk noise
• Start economically
• Headphones and leakage
• Get used to the sound of your own voice

Contact us

• Join us live: https://twitch.tv/TheTeeMonster
• Call the listener line: 703-791-1701
• Email us: podcast@podcastingfordummies.com

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Tee and Chuck have an open conversation about starting a podcast.

Topics

• What is a podcast?
• Let’s talk content creation
• Evolution from podcaster to…
• Why start a podcast?
• I want to start podcasting
• It’s a ton of work
• Differentiating your podcast
• Is podcasting for you?
• The real work is…
• Reviewing some podcast apps
• So many ways of consuming podcasts

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Tee and Chuck discuss what’s up with Twitch and music, what you can do to protect yourself, and more.

• Book reviews
• Podcasting and streaming
• Getting used to your own voice
• The RIAA and DMCA takedowns
• Lindsay Ellis
• Three biggest myths about playing music in your podcast or stream
• What Twitch SHOULD have done and should NOT have done
• What podcasters have done for 15 years
• Coverville Podcast
• Affordable options
• Evil Genius Chronicles
• Megapodtastic

Contact Us

• Website
• Twitch
• Email
• Voice: 703-791-1701

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