My man James from LoadingReadyRun came over today to help me with the new Mac and to resurrect the Toshiba. Success n both fronts… and we got to talking about podcasting. I’ve been podcasting for many years now, and being a radio mucky muck, I have access to a professional audio studio, a tech guy, music, and production libraries. Good times. BUT I find it has left me a little ignorant on the hows and the whys and the whats. I can make a podcast, but I feel that without this support from the radio station, I could never crank one out myself.
Now, oddly enough, I feel like I am learning about the nuts and bolts of podcasting again from scratch. James and his team at LLR jam out a weekly podcast just like Capital Rock City. Their podcast is a 40 minute yak fest where a bunch of dudes sit around and riff on video games. I wanted to know how they do it. James basically explained they use a USB mic called the Samson C03U. They record into GarageBand which is an audio editor software that comes with the MacBook. I have been poking around Garageband and find it weird, seeing as I have used Cool Edit pro for a hundred years and Pro-Tools sometimes. What I like about Garageband is that it seems built for podcasting and will let me do a bunch of stuff that I see on other podcasts that I have wondered about. Like inserting pictures and having them change during the broadcast. neat. It’ll take sometime to figure it out and I’ll need a mic (think I’ll see about a Samson), but you might be hearing some early demo podcasts on here pretty soon.
Another inspiring thing that should help get some new show ideas out there is streaming the shows on this here blog. Amanda over at the Indie Files was very helpful in explaining how to rock an audio player on the blog. Check out an MP3 post she made that features the songs she is talking about.
Your likely thinking, “holy fuck Jeremy, that is some blogging 101 stuff there.” But not for me, I’ve seen that on so many blogs and always wanted to do that on my blog when i’m yapping about music, or quickly jam out a little podcast to play some audio for you… and now finally I think I can.
You’ll likely be hearing and seeing some practise over the next couple weeks as I flirt with Garageband, WordPress, Serato and this Mac, creating podcasts and publishing the content.
Thank you James for your computer knowledge and help and to Amanda for the email.
Oh and the Toshiba lives. Nice.
Go with yourself.
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