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#1: Complete ‘How To Podcast’ Guide

Welcome to this, the first episode of The Podcasting Blog, I’m your host, Ken Walker, and I’ll be your guide to all things podcasting. This first episode is gonna primarily introduce the main goal...

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#2: Podcasting Hardware Selection

You’ve got your topic selected. You’ve decided how much time and money you want to invest. So now it’s down to the nitty gritty. It’s time to setup your studio. I’m not gonna be biased as far as PC or...

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#3: Sound Isolation

I could probably dedicate an entire blog to this topic alone, so I’m going to have to be somewhat brief. In brief, we’re gonna deal with everything from your mic stand to the ambience in your studio....

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#4: Podcast Recording Device

The next item in the sound chain is actually your mic cable. Here, I won’t take long. Just buy a nice one. Go to a music store either in your neighborhood or online, and buy a mic cable that is good...

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#5: Audio Processing Equipment

The lights are dim. The studio is dark, except for the pulsating glow of LEDs and VU meters pouncing back and forth. Every time you utter a word, the room comes to life with vibrant colors of red,...

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#6: Podcasting Software

Once you have your equipment, there are basically two other elements that stand between you and producing a great podcast. The first one is software. You’ve got to have a program that will allow you...

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#7: Starting Your Podcast

Let me give you the rundown of a typical podcast. This is what goes on behind the scenes, in order to produce a good quality podcast. These are just suggestions and won’t fit into every type of...

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#8: Using a USB Audio Capture Device

I’m gonna assume that you’re using some type of USB audio capture device that supports XLR input and that you’ve got a large diaphragm condenser mic hooked straight into it. You can get a good...

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#9: Multitrack Mixing

In this episode, I wanna deal with a couple of things. I’m gonna have to take this kinda slow so that those of you that are new to audio production are gonna be able to follow along. One thing...

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#10: Voice Processing

If you followed along with last week’s post, you should have a voice track along with a music bed track. You should also have some volume cues on the music track so that the volumes go up or down...

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#11: Hosting and Blogging Software

This week’s topics are very closely intertwined, so I figured I’d talk about them together. Once you’re able to start making good quality podcasts, you’re gonna need a place to put them so that...

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#12: WordPress Modules

I chose WordPress because it’s real easy to use and it has a lot of great features. With the latest version, which is currently 2.1, you can get going with podcasting right away, but there are some...

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#13: Promoting Your Podcast

This week I figured I’d go ahead and start talking about site promotion. This’ll apply to anybody wanting to get more traffic to their site, but especially podcasters. I plan on having a guest in a...

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#14: Keywords

You already know that it’s important to transcribe your podcast because that’s the only way that search engines are gonna be able to see what your podcasts are about, right? And if the search...

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#15: Special Bulletin

I’m gonna take a detour from our normal format this week, cause I wanna give you a heads up on some equipment that I ran across. I was looking for a new digital piano for my daughter and I headed...

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#19: Sound Effects and Music in Your Podcast

Printed media is and always will be an excellent way to communicate, but people just like to hear a voice, whether it’s on the radio or through a podcast, that voice helps people connect. What that...

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#23: Removing Noise with a Noise Filter in Audition and Audacity

Welcome to the Podcasting Blog, this week we’re gonna talk about some how to topics, I’m gonna tell you how you can remove unwanted noise from a recording in two different applications and on two...

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#25: Optimizing and Insuring Your Podcast

If you wanna get your podcast noticed, and get some traffic to your site, you’re gonna have to do a little research. Even if you’ve got great content, there are some techniques you can use to make...

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#26: We Look at the Inside of an RSS Feed

As promised, this week we’ll take a tour of an RSS file and look at some of the different tags. This isn’t a real exciting topic, but it’s good to have at least looked at an RSS file so that you know...

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Enhanced Podcasts

You are listening to another fantastic episode of The Podcasting Blog, with me, your host, Ken Walker. I’ll be your podcasting pilot for the next 15 minutes or so, as we soar through the latest and...

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Behringer Virtualizer Pro

Hey everybody, Ken Walker here, educating the masses on how to podcast. This week I’ve got some great stuff lined up for you, we’re gonna review the Behringer Virtualizer Pro, we’ll also talk...

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Audio Noise

You’re listening to Episode 31 of The Podcasting Blog. I’m Ken Walker and this week’s episode was prompted by a comment I had a couple of weeks ago regarding noise, so I figured it would probably...

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Recording Noise

You’re listening to episode 32 of The Podcasting Blog, I’m your host Ken Walker and for the next 15 minutes or so we’re gonna talk about ways that you can eliminate electronic noise from your...

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Podcasting Tips

Up this week I’ve got some great info for you corporate podcasters out there. If you’re thinking about podcasting, stay tuned because I’m gonna talk about some of the most common mistakes of...

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Selecting a Domain Name

Join me as we start a journey setting up a site for podcasting. I’m going to walk you through the whole process from domain name selection, to installing Word Press, to uploading your podcast. This...

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WordPress Theme Installation

This week we’ll continue our journey setting up a website for podcasting. We’ve got the hosting account setup and WordPress installed. Now we’ll select a theme and install it. For those of you that saw...

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Installing Podpress

Well, I’m back this week and I’ve got the second half of last week’s podcast. We’ll finish the process of getting our site to play audio files by installing Podpress, a great Wordpress plugin found at...

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Recording a Phone Conversation

Hey everybody, it’s been a long time since I’ve done a regular show and I actually miss it! We’ve been for several weeks now, going through setting up a new domain and getting it ready for...

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Reviewing The Zoom H2 and Adobe Releases Audition 3.0

This week on The Podcasting Blog I’ve got a product review on the Zoom H2, it’s a handy portable recording device, and Adobe releases Audition 3.0. I’ve been checking their site daily since I...

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Audio Quality Criteria

This week we continue our audio principals saga and talk about what factors come into play to determine audio quality. We talk about sample rate, bit depth, and a bunch of other fun stuff that you need...

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Podpress Configuration Options / Tutorial

Well, it almost seems like I’ve been on vacation for a few weeks. I will admit that I’ve been lazy for awhile, but it has been far from vacation! I’m swamped with work. In addition to work for my...

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Learn to Create a Stinger

This episode is a screencast and has some helpful tips on working the mic and creating stingers. A stinger is basically a transitional sound byte, something that plays in between two segments to kinda...

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Podcasting Tips

Another screencast (I’m feeling generous). This time, we’l jump into more mic technique tips and some other ‘non-technical’ podcasting advice. I find that podcasting is more than just hardware,...

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Getting Voice and Music Mixed

Here’s the scoop. Episode 10 was supposed to have some pictures. They disappeared never to be found again! So wht I did is recreate the content in video format. You should still go read Episode 10...

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