My first podcast show of the season.

Yesterday I recorded my first audio podcast in over ten years. I will have to say, it went very well. Little technical trouble with my equipment setup, but in the end we recorded a show. My technical setup is a MacBook Pro, using Adobe Audition software to record a mixing box, feeding off two Sure SM58 microphones. Most of my audio equipment came from the first podcast that I did when I worked for The American Century Theatre company in Northern Virginia. This was one season with me, their photographer and the media agent, talking to the staff about the upcoming play. It was actually the last year that I worked for the theater company. Leaving wasn’t my choice, they just wanted fresh blood in the game. But the taste of doing a podcast was born in me.

It took me some time to get back on the horse, as they say. I didn’t have the time when my primary job at the agency was to send me to document crime scenes and agent involved shooting scenes.

My wife is also my partner on this podcast project, she is helping with the guests and with quality decisions about the show. She even helps our first guest with the questions that I pre-interviewed with the guest. The first attempted at the recording had some issues. The microphone was a little farther away and made it sound like she was in a room talking. What I found out was the audio setting for my laptop, jumped off the setting for the external mixer that was supplying the audio signal to the computer, and instead it went with the internal audio and microphone. My voice sounded fine because I was closest to the microphone and my guest was sounding like it was far off, which she was. After some conversation and several glasses of wine, I could fix the issue. My guest wanted to redo the audio interview anyway, so we did the interview again. My guest reviewed what she said and was happy with the outcome.

I will add the intros and exits onto the recording will make the whole interview about twenty minutes long. This is not bad for a first attempt. The total length of the interview is about eighteen minutes, and I am happy about that. It goes to show you, a couple glasses of wine lets the lips flow easier.