Good Gear

A great way to get up to speed with Podcasting is to join one of the many forums on Facebook, Linkedin or Quora. I have learnt a lot of useful stuff from those forums.  But there is an obsession with gear.  Who has the best microphone? Who has the best mixing desk/panel?

It reminds me of a friend of a friend who decided that she would become a voiceover.  She bought all the gear, Neumann Microphone, Whisper Booth.. thousands of pounds worth of stuff.  Then did nothing with it She never made that jump, never recorded a single script.

There are Podcasters out there obsessed with the gear and not really worrying about the content, just how sexy they sound on a particular microphone.  Manufacturers are starting to realise this growing market, with Rode releasing their rather pricey 'Rodecaster Pro.'

BUT With good content a Smart phone recording App, a quiet place, you can still make great Podcasts.

ACTUALLY  you don't even need a quiet place, one of my clients recorded his podcast during a monsoon - very atmospheric and a wonderful podcast.