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Finally Dropped the First Podcast Show

Yes, me and my business partner finished our first podcast episode over the weekend. I had several technical issues with the recording; which was more about my equipment selection for gathering the audio which lead to having a hiss in the left channel which made the recording unacceptable? My after purchase research to solve the problem, I found it is a typical problem for the cheap audio mixer that I purchased. I found another company brand that after my tests was completely acceptable and without a hiss. My setup was simple, two Shure SM58S microphones, connected to a mixer unit and then directly into my Mac Laptop, where I used Adobe Audition to record the audio. My choice in microphones in Shure because, was because I used them ten years ago in my American Century Theatre podcast called, “Before the Curtain Raises.” That podcast for me lasted one season. The next year, the theater company didn’t hire me as their staff photographer and they kept doing the podcast with other people. I also learned the hard way with my software of choice. I’m an Adobe cloud software user with their complete suit of applications. These last few years I’ve been on a path to learn as much as I can with the applications. I paid for them, I should use them. This project requires that I learn how to edit audio with Adobe Audition, since it’s very similar to Adobe Premiere. If your audio is sub par, then your entire project just plain sucks.That hiss I received from my audio mixer box was only on the left channel which was connected to my microphone and not our guest’s. I learned how to delete that channel, copy my guest channel and make it truly stereo sounding with her voice coming through both left and right channels. I then recorded my questions with my desk setup and dropped them in place on the interviewer tracks. It turned out great. Next time I might need to place a little time before and after my questions to make it sound more natural. The good thing about this project, we entered it into the world of Apple Podcast content. They accepted the podcast with no changes needed in lest then twenty-four hours from the time I submitted the podcast to them. Even our podcast title was accepted.