MidLife Gamer Podcast
Jun 10th, 2009, 03:24 AM
Hello there.
I've been podcasting with my co-host now for almost a year now.
We've been doing this using Garageband along with 2 high quality USB headsets (with integrated compressors). The sound quality has been find to a point and generally better quality than most of our peers, however I really want to make a move to more advanced hardware.
For anyone who has used GB for recording more than 1 input at a time will know GB's limitation and the need to aggregate the 2 inputs together. I'd like to get around this entirely by investing in a mixing desk and some nice compressor mics.
The end result would be to have 2 mics (with pop shields) for myself and the co-host. Both with headphones so we can hear each other (and a tiny bit of ourselves to ensure we're recording), run these all through a mixing desk and into my Mac.
I don't want to record straight into GB as I've had some issues with the audio being corrupt (only once every 20 shows or so, but nothing worse than loosing an hours of podcasting gold). I'd like to record the audio in something else, then perhaps do all of my editing in GB as I do like its editing functionality.
One thing which is important though is that I want to try and record this as live as possible. For example we have the usual jingles and audio which make up the show which I insert during editing. It would be nice to have all of these queued up on my Mac and be able to fire them off when needed. These would play through our headphones, but more importantly become part of the raw recording. Is this possible, or would I have to get another bit of hardware which would also be attached to the mixing desk as a 3rd input?
As for hardware, I've come across this - http://www.getinthemix.co.uk/Behringer-Podcastudio-FireWire-Bundle-Fire-Wire.htm
This has 2 XLR inputs for our mics and the outputs for the headphones (would naturally need to buy additional mic and headphones). But is this generally what I'm looking for would you suggest? Also is the audio interface required as a bridge between the audio capability of the desk and the computing capability of the PC/Mac?
Sorry if this is quite long, but I really want to get this right before I go off buying things.
Thanks
Matt
I've been podcasting with my co-host now for almost a year now.
We've been doing this using Garageband along with 2 high quality USB headsets (with integrated compressors). The sound quality has been find to a point and generally better quality than most of our peers, however I really want to make a move to more advanced hardware.
For anyone who has used GB for recording more than 1 input at a time will know GB's limitation and the need to aggregate the 2 inputs together. I'd like to get around this entirely by investing in a mixing desk and some nice compressor mics.
The end result would be to have 2 mics (with pop shields) for myself and the co-host. Both with headphones so we can hear each other (and a tiny bit of ourselves to ensure we're recording), run these all through a mixing desk and into my Mac.
I don't want to record straight into GB as I've had some issues with the audio being corrupt (only once every 20 shows or so, but nothing worse than loosing an hours of podcasting gold). I'd like to record the audio in something else, then perhaps do all of my editing in GB as I do like its editing functionality.
One thing which is important though is that I want to try and record this as live as possible. For example we have the usual jingles and audio which make up the show which I insert during editing. It would be nice to have all of these queued up on my Mac and be able to fire them off when needed. These would play through our headphones, but more importantly become part of the raw recording. Is this possible, or would I have to get another bit of hardware which would also be attached to the mixing desk as a 3rd input?
As for hardware, I've come across this - http://www.getinthemix.co.uk/Behringer-Podcastudio-FireWire-Bundle-Fire-Wire.htm
This has 2 XLR inputs for our mics and the outputs for the headphones (would naturally need to buy additional mic and headphones). But is this generally what I'm looking for would you suggest? Also is the audio interface required as a bridge between the audio capability of the desk and the computing capability of the PC/Mac?
Sorry if this is quite long, but I really want to get this right before I go off buying things.
Thanks
Matt