How We Do It

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.