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Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by petercooper »

jakewalker wrote: post #7

I am curious about how Dan gets such great recordings from his co-hosts, who are remote. I'd have thought they record audio natively then upload him a high quality audio file with time sync, but then I remembered that he does these shows live, so that can't possibly be how it works.

Just because some shows are streamed live too doesn't mean there's not necessarily any editing for the podcast version.

I can't speak for Dan's other shows but I co-host The Ruby Show which was on 5by5 until recently and we record separately and then edit them together. No particular time syncing beyond recording at the same time though.

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by hivelogic »

ugh wrote: post #9
leviathant wrote: post #4

Call it a personal preference, but I'm not terribly impressed by asking for donations on a page loaded with Amazon affiliate links for fairly high-dollar items. I say this as someone who runs my own hobby site paid for entirely by affiliate links to Amazon and eBay. An example of why I think it detracts from the article: You link to Monoprice.com for an XLR cable (good!) and then immediately link to a more expensive…

It's his job, not his hobby. I have a problem with affiliate links that are not marked as such, I certainly don't ever have a problem with asking for donations.

Good point, I've added a line explaining that I use affiliate links too. Thanks!

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by hivelogic »

leviathant wrote: post #4

Call it a personal preference, but I'm not terribly impressed by asking for donations on a page loaded with Amazon affiliate links for fairly high-dollar items. I say this as someone who runs my own hobby site paid for entirely by affiliate links to Amazon and eBay. An example of why I think it detracts from the article: You link to Monoprice.com for an XLR cable (good!) and then immediately link to a more expensive…

Thanks for taking the time to read the post. Actually I didn't link to the Amazon cable because I wanted affiliate money, I linked to it as an alternative to Monoprice's slower and more expensive shipping costs. Many people don't want to wait more than a week and pay higher prices for a couple of cables.

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by hivelogic »

jakewalker wrote: post #7

I am curious about how Dan gets such great recordings from his co-hosts, who are remote. I'd have thought they record audio natively then upload him a high quality audio file with time sync, but then I remembered that he does these shows live, so that can't possibly be how it works.

The 5by5 studio, though small, is pretty complicated (and unfortunately kind of expensive) to setup. We record all but 1 of our shows live, and edit them all before releasing them.

I'm planning on doing either another post or perhaps a video about the setup (assuming there's interest).

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by hivelogic »

Rickasaurus wrote: post #12

Any further recommendations on windows software? I'm not a Mac guy but would like to play with some podcasting.

Pro Tools is good for both Windows and Mac and although I haven't used it much, Adobe Audition is great on the PC (and though it's out for Mac, I still prefer Logic).

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by ichilton »

hivelogic wrote: post #15
jakewalker wrote: post #7

I am curious about how Dan gets such great recordings from his co-hosts, who are remote. I'd have thought they record audio natively then upload him a high quality audio file with time sync, but then I remembered that he does these shows live, so that can't possibly be how it works.

The 5by5 studio, though small, is pretty complicated (and unfortunately kind of expensive) to setup. We record all but 1 of our shows live, and edit them all before releasing them. I'm planning on doing either another post or perhaps a video about the setup (assuming there's interest).

Excellent - I'd be interested in that!

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by jakewalker »

hivelogic wrote: post #15
jakewalker wrote: post #7

I am curious about how Dan gets such great recordings from his co-hosts, who are remote. I'd have thought they record audio natively then upload him a high quality audio file with time sync, but then I remembered that he does these shows live, so that can't possibly be how it works.

The 5by5 studio, though small, is pretty complicated (and unfortunately kind of expensive) to setup. We record all but 1 of our shows live, and edit them all before releasing them. I'm planning on doing either another post or perhaps a video about the setup (assuming there's interest).

Would definitely be interested.

Re: Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide

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Post by _pius »

swivelmaster wrote: post #8

I was surprised to see the mention that dynamic mics are more expensive. Perhaps when looking at mics specifically designed for podcasting this is true, but not in general. If you want a general purpose, gold-standard inexpensive mic, go with a Shure SM-58 or SM-57. They're designed for live performance, so they're really durable. They sound pretty good for the price, which is under a hundred bucks. Also, it's weird…

Also, it's weird that the article talks about "XLR mics" as if they're something special ...

Not really. This is an article geared towards people used to amateur or, at best, prosumer computer mics. 99% of those are not XLR.

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