I’m starting a podcast. It’s about talkgroup. The premise doesn’t really matter, I noticed there are gigs for podcasting (tech support, content creation, etc.), and soon I will accept such gigs.
Okay, so I’m gonna start with a simple weekly episode, at the end of the week, where I go over talkgroup for that week. I’ll discuss changes happening, or content folks posted.
I would be nice to get this done on Fridays, so I have something to designate that day; I’ve noticed people kinda lose their minds on a cycle, and Fridays seem to be an indicator of when that’s about to occur. This will presumably keep me busy during that day…
Let’s see, what shall I need to continue:
talkgroup
thoughts
a recording mic
software to capture audio
software to prepare audio
This is Phase 1. I’m very aware of how podcasting works with feeds, and don’t particularly care, since I’ll be posting to #meta (it makes sense!).
Of course I intend to do interviews! And that will be Phase 2, where I get all networking in here.
Currently there are two versions of talkgroup, and I’ll cover both. This way we can have a podcast update for deprecation work on v1.
So… I’m gonna try with my headset for taking call: Logitch UC Zone Wireless Plus. For years I’ve held back from picking up a Blue Yeti, because I’m not convinced I need a dedicated microphone. But maybe I’ll get into this and want to upgrade.
Pretty sure I’m gonna try to do it all with Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org/). I’m not mixing anything (though I’d love to highlight media with audio from #media!) to start, so Zone Wireless and Audacity to get this podcast off the ground!
i, too, used Audacity to record a podcast! that was ten years ago! it was about league of legends! these were what i needed to get started:
i had no thoughts. other people had many thoughts. we used their thoughts.
(fluff) i made a very bad logo. will you make a logo?
(fluff) a friend made a jingle for our intro!
we gathered in Eudemonia around my 2008 mac and used its onboard mic.
we sometimes had guests call in over Skype, and simply… fed their sound out of the mac’s onboard speakers and back in through the onboard mic. =( it was pretty bad. “don’t do that” is as far as my advice goes, though. i still don’t know how to correctly route multiple streams of input.
we paid $19/mo for a podcast file hosting cloud service that pushed to places like itunes. i believe i exported them as .mp3 for upload. where will you host your sound files? edited: ah, on talkgroup itself!
you know much more about building sane rss feeds than i do! will you post about how you accomplish getting your podcast into the ears of listeners? maybe it is not syndicated on those closed gardens actually???
we shared and discussed episodes on reddit and teamliquid forums. you have talkgroup as a built-in place to do this!
