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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e785911e-6f72-79a1-66e3-fe96caa538fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A good microphone is an important part of your recording. Since a podcaster’s intent is to reach a mass audience, high quality sound should be a big priority. A microphone like “Blue Yeti” works great because it is a [[File:Blue Yeti Microphone.jpg|thumb|Blue Yeti Microphone.jpg]]USB microphone that connects directly into your computer to record sound digitally. If you are recording your podcast in a room this should work great. The only thing you would need to worry about is avoiding echo. This can be done by recording in a small room or a big room with furniture to absorb the sound waves. If you are recording outdoors, make sure you use a microphone with a windsock could help prevent wind-shearing in your audio recording. It is important to do your research when selecting a microphone, because your purpose should be to get one that allows you to get the quality of sound necessary for your podcast based on how you plan on producing your content.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-e785911e-6f72-79a1-66e3-fe96caa538fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This almost goes hand-in-hand with your computer selection. There are a number of free online audio editing softwares such as Audacity, but its disadvantage is that it crashes often, sometimes resulting in the loss of [[File:Adobe Audition Logo.png|thumb]]valuable audio files. We believe a software application such as Adobe Audition will work the best. It does come with an individual monthly cost of around $20 per month, but can grow along with your podcast series. If you're a student, Adobe has a student discount on all of their Creative Cloud plans, which could be incentive to give their program a shot. If there is a worry about adding an additional monthly cost, software such as WavePad is a one-time cost of about $95 that can also grow with your podcast series. However, as new updates are implemented to WavePad, the updated software would need to be newly purchased whereas Adobe Audition will always be up to date with your monthly app subscription.</span></span>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your budget</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The subject of your podcast</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The size/demographic of your target audience</span></span></li>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are familiar with Wordpress, Blubrry might be the place for you. Similarly to Wordpress, Blubrry is a hosting company, although this one specializes in all things audio or video. Blubrry&nbsp;is capable of processing your high-data media files and will host and promote your podcast. A page for your podcast is easily established and maintained. However, the disadvantage of Blubrry</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is that it can be quite pricey, sometimes costing you $10/GB per month, which tends to be higher than average.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alternatively, you could make a Soundcloud, which has many of its own advantages. For one thing, the basic version which is still very good, is completely free and really simple to use. You can also upgrade to [[File:Soundcloud Logo.jpg|thumb]]Soundcloud Pro or Pro Unlimited for a very fair price and acquire even more features and/or control over your podcast. An additional and extremely useful benefit of Soundcloud is that it has an RSS Feed that enables you to pull your data to many apps or websites. This is also an easy way to go about adding your podcasts to huge platforms like iTunes or Android Music.</span></span>