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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 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. If The only thing you are not would need to worry about is avoiding echo. This can be done by recording in a small roomor a big room with furniture to absorb the sound waves. If you are recording outdoors, but going on location, making 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 platforms audio editing softwares such as Audacity, but its disadvantage is that it can get costly when it comes to storing your data (measured by the GBcrashes often, so sometimes resulting in the more you store the costlier it becomes)loss of 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>

<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;">Listening to, editing, or even knowing your podcast the way your users do is predicated on your ability to listen and fine tune it yourself first. Most computers should have onboard speakers It would be extremely beneficial to you to edit audio while wearing headphones. Not only will this give you a great idea of what your sound quality is like, but it will also assisnt in blocking out any other sound that may prevent you from hearing correctly or a headphone jackdistract you. However, if some of your audience will be utilizing better quality speakers and/or headphones than you, it would be prudent to at least match that quality through your editing and reviewing process. This will be the empathetic part of your process. Hearing your content in the same manor as the audience.</span></span>