One of the last things I wanted to mention in this article is equipment. Now, you could record a podcast with a phone microphone and upload it from the same phone, making this section somewhat invalid. However, the audio quality won’t be very good, editing will be quite hard, and you won’t know if everything is correct until after recording. To solve all of those problems and make your podcast sound almost professional, I recommend 3 pieces of equipment and a studio. The studio is the easiest part as it just needs to be a relatively small room with plenty of soft surfaces to eliminate any echoes. You could use blankets, provided that they’re nice and soft; foam, especially in wedges tuck to the walls to really cancel out echoes; pillows, clothes, plushies, really anything soft that can absorb sound waves. Now, time to go in-depth on the 3 pieces of equipment that I recommend.
The Motu M2 is a sleek, powerful, and rather small unit that professionals around the world use for its best-in-class audio and ease of use. No, that isn’t just a direct quote from their website, it’s just a summary of what they say. In my opinion, it is very easy to figure out as when I was learning it from scratch, the hardest part was finding the power button. You can hook it up to a laptop, desktop, or even tablet depending on what you need. It’s also very portable and the audio that I got from it was, well… It was pretty mediocre, but that’s no fault of the M2. My studio is basically a small glass echo chamber with only carpeted floors to prevent loud, echoey reverb. For a price under $200 USD, it is well worth acquiring for your podcasting endeavours. No, they didn’t sponsor this.
The Røde PodMic is not actually the mic I use with the podcasting studio I work in. I have no clue what type of mic is in the studio, so I went to the internet to find a good one. With all two websites that I visited, the PodMic showed up ranked highly on both of them. If that’s not good enough for you, I don’t know what is! The PodMic is a high quality microphone from a respected company. Well, as respected as one can be if one is from Australia. Which is quite a bit, as they don’t bat an eye at spiders who can kill 872 adult elephants with one bite crawling out of their toilet. Back on topic, for a fair price and great audio quality, the Røde PodMic is used by professionals around the globe. I don’t have experience with it, and thus can’t recommend it, but I do suggest trying it out. I’m curious to hear how it goes. They also didn’t sponsor this. I do not have sponsors.
The Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO headphones are also not headphones that I have experience. They were recommended by both of my sources, and seem like they would work well with podcasting. (Note from the editor who is also me, it says on the website that they are studio headphones, so they are specifically designed for listening back to recordings as far as I can understand.) The DT 770 PROs have impressive sound quality, at 250 ohms! Now, I have no clue what that means, but I’m sure the sound nerds reading this are quaking in their boots because 250 is a big number. On a more serious note, these headphones are professional quality, and therefore used by professionals, and they’re from Germany. I believe that Germany has very good engineering, especially in cars, so I recommend the Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO headphones to anyone wanting to make a podcast. With all of this equipment combined, the total cost comes to $492.24 with the headphones being on sale at the time of writing this and taxes not included.
