my podcast - review needed :)

[mrbovy]

Dear all,

I came to ask you for a favor. I have made my first step in to podcasting and need your feedback to see if I should be doing it at all.

I have a concern about the quality of my voice...

wouldnt you mind visiting my podcast page (http://www.mrbovy.libsyn.com/) and let me know what you think ?

thanks in advance!!!!
mrBovy

[Rasheed]

You sound honest and have a pleasing voice, you only sound a bit inexperienced. So, do more recordings, develop your concepts, and just put it online. Once you think you have something, start promoting it (not sooner).

[mrbovy]

You sound honest and have a pleasing voice, you only sound a bit inexperienced. So, do more recordings, develop your concepts, and just put it online. Once you think you have something, start promoting it (not sooner).


Thanks a lot for your precious advice!

[EndGamePR]

It's been said on these forums more times than I can count -- your first few episodes are going to be rough. During that time you'll be learning how to talk on the mic and produce a show, and you'll also be fleshing out how your show will be formatted. Keep at it. I listened to (admittedly) just about 30 seconds of your show. Your voice sounds fine ... all you need is confidence. That will come with time.

[mrbovy]

It's been said on these forums more times than I can count -- your first few episodes are going to be rough. During that time you'll be learning how to talk on the mic and produce a show, and you'll also be fleshing out how your show will be formatted. Keep at it. I listened to (admittedly) just about 30 seconds of your show. Your voice sounds fine ... all you need is confidence. That will come with time.


I have done plenty of samples so far. They are better every time i think. There is just a doubt I have about right time to publish.

I wonder if there is a point in just going ahead with it online. Should I rather practice till its perfect? Im always concern about the amount of internet junk...

Thank you for all the useful advices! I will work on the confidence right away :)

[Rasheed]

I would publish, but not promote. This way you can detect and remove any problems in your production process. Problems with the RSS feed are among the most common problems. Furthermore, you can ask people you trust to give an honest opinion what to improve.

Podcasting is a craft which you can only master by doing it a lot and be positively critical about your own shows. Concentrate on the content first. Have something to talk about with other people. Prepare your shows, but be casual while you're talking into the mic (like you're doing right now). Perhaps a bulleted list and a picture of one of your friends in front of you will help. It should be like you tell something to your closest friend and are both have a good time talking to each other.

[Steve Pinder]

I have been doing this way too long, so if I sound condisending, please forgive me.
Just sit down with your recorder and play with your voice. Talk and talk and talk. Then listen and review. Change the settings on your mixer, change your mic if you want, but talk, talk, talk, and talk until you feel confortable with your sound. I have been engineering for 25 years and podcasting since 2005.
There is no sure fire trick to it. A person can even change there voice to compensate for poor processing gear and a bad mic. If you wear headphones when you practice, you will hear yourself change the tonal quality until you find one that works. Then just practice.

Master Steve Pinder

[Rasheed]

The biggest problem, for me, is to find a reason to podcast. with that I mean, that I don't want to merely talk, but have something meaningful to say, something that goes beyond my personal life.

I know a lot of things about everything, but I have no real deep knowledge about particular subjects I could share with the world. For me personally, that is a barrier to entry. You have to have a subject you know enough about to call yourself some kind of authority. I started an audio blog, but stopped after 10 episodes, because I didn't have anything to say, really. So now I'm trying to do more research and soul searching. I have to do a lot of study as well, to know just a little bit more than the average listener.

You also have to love to hear yourself talking, which I don't. I'm more of a writer. More hurdles to take. And perhaps not everyone can be a podcaster, and a certain personality is required for this medium.

[WyethDigital]

You also have to love to hear yourself talking, which I don't. I'm more of a writer. More hurdles to take. And perhaps not everyone can be a podcaster, and a certain personality is required for this medium.

Rasheed, I think your "barrier to entry" is more of a psychological block! You said you're a writer... But if you don't think you're enough of an expert to speak about your favorite subjects, then how is it you're enough of one to write about them?

The way I see it is that you either want to podcast, but are afraid not doing well and being humiliated; or you don't want to, and you're looking for a reason not to. If it's humiliation you're worried about, then that's only a mind block and can be overcome by building up your own confidence. Get out your video camera, do something stupid (really, really stooooopid, stupid) and put it on YouTube. Humiliation problem solved. Pass "Go" and collcect $200! However, if you are looking for a reason not to podcast, the best one is simply that you don't want to. No one would think any less of you or your opinions.

Of course, if I've got that all wrong, then by all means ignore me and keep looking for your niche. But you should post something stupid on YouTube! If not for you, then to give us something to chuckle about. ;)

Eric

[Achilles]

dude, i would kill for your accent! it would drive the ladies wild

ep 4 of yours was a lot of apologizing. never apologize for being you man, just take it and run. be confident in yourself, and the audience will be confident in you.

watch your Umms and Ahhhs, im really bad for that too, one way i get around it, is write down everything i wanna say. then keep it point form infront of me, so i just dont ramble on

for my show, since its about new music and movies, i gotta keep it short, cause people wanna see the latest music video from usher, or the latest hellboy trailer, so point form cards keeps it short sweet and to the point

for me, im not interesting enough to talk about myself for a show. so i gota topic and tlak aobut more interesting people, hahaha