Make sure your audio levels are even throughout the recording.These rooms have multiple mics set up and an installed computer. You can also use the Story Lab rooms LITC 122 and 124.Avoid public spaces or any rooms with loud background noise. Consider recording in one of the practice rooms in Austin Arts (Rooms 107 and 108) These are great options to give you a quiet place to record.Lapel mic – best option for use with a phone or digital voice recorder, uses a standard headphone jack, but be very careful with rubbing on clothes or hair.USB headset with mic – good quality but one speaker at a time.Yeti USB microphone – best option – good quality and can record 2+ people simultaneously.

Microphone options you can check out at the circulation desk on Level A of the library: Make sure you are happy with the quality before doing all your recording. What will you use to record your audio? Do you have a decent microphone? Will you just use your phone, computer, or a digital voice recorder from the circulation desk? Whatever you decide, test it out and listen to an example through good speakers (use a classroom if necessary) not just your phone/earbuds. Editing will take MUCH longer than you think and technology problems happen so don’t leave things until the last minute. Continually solicit feedback and revise if necessary. Give yourself enough time to re-record segments if the audio quality isn’t as good as it should be. Focus on the content and the story you are going to tell. We just won’t go into the process of syndication in this post. In either case the process of planning and creating the audio files is the same. When we use the term podcasting we are often just referring to an audio project rather than a proper podcast which would imply a series of syndicated audio recordings.

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