Have you ever wanted to podcast in different locations? Like a coffee
shop or a restaurant or a conference? Well, in this video, we'll show you the best portable
podcasting equipment. And how to set it up so you can podcast anywhere you want.
Hello, and welcome to the Pod Sound School. I'm Veronica and I'm Studio Steve, and here
on our channel, we post videos every week about podcasting video production, social media tips,
and tricks. So if that's something that you can Vive on, subscribe to our channel. One of my
favorite things about podcasting is that you don't have to record your podcasts in the same location.
Every time you can podcast anywhere you want with the right equipment and with the masks coming off.
And as being able to go to places,
why not put a little bit more fun into our podcast, production and podcast in different
places. Yeah, you can go interview somebody you've been wanting to interview for a long time, maybe
in their location where they're at, or meet them at a hotel lobby or a coffee shop.
This can be really fun. And you can start practicing your journalistic
abilities. Yes. And in this video, we'll put ourselves through the task and went
to a local grocery store to record our podcast episode. Yes from start to finish,
we recorded a whole podcast episode that we then sent to our podcast editor.
So if you want to check that out and hear how good it actually turned out,
you can check out our podcast. We'll leave the link to the pod sound school
podcast in the description box below, you can kill two birds with a stone and
record your podcast episode and do grocery shopping at the same time.
Exactly. No, I'm sorry. I'm making faces to be because what else do you want me to? This
is what I normally do. Okay. And here we go. Oh, you put your equipment in your backpack
and jump into action. There are some best practices that I want you to consider first
is to have an outline and to be prepared for your interview.
This is going to shorten the time you're going to be on location. And when you are more prepared,
you're gonna be more confident and everything is going to go smoothly. Same if you're interviewing.
Your guests have the questions ready? Uh, send the questions
to your guests in advance. So everything goes smooth and you don't waste any time.
Second, make sure your equipment is ready to record,
run some tests and pack some extra batteries and make sure that everything is running
smoothly for you to press record. And third is always a good practice to ask in advance,
whether you're we're allowed to record at the location that you chose,
you don't want to show up with your guests or with all your equipment and get kicked out.
You don't want to get kicked out.
You're talking about the really cool podcast setup that I'm going to share with you.
I think it's the best all around portable journalistic style podcasting setup. There is
you might be thinking, Hey, I don't even have a podcast. So if you're brand
new to podcasting and you need a little help, just getting up to speed with it.
All of the stuff that goes into starting a podcast,
we put together a really awesome free online masterclass. It's like a 45 minute class that
will get you up and running. Really quick and actually find your listeners and get your
first thousand downloads. You can get to that master class by going to podcasting smart.com.
So this guy right here is called the zoom H four N zoom, actually, zoom recorders are very popular.
People use them for podcasting, like crazy. So you might already be familiar with this.
This guy is really cool because it has these two microphones on the top here.
And these are stereo microphones that you can kind of twist to change how wide.
The stereo capturing is, and this just out of the box, just like this, you can actually record a
podcast like this, especially if it's just one person and he could. Kind of do this kind of
a thing, uh, or these are perfect microphones to capture ambient. We're actually going to do that.
When we get to the grocery store, we're going to have this recording, these two microphones,
but in addition to these two microphones, it also has two XLR inputs here that you can plug.
A regular microphone into, so the two microphones we're going to use
are these classic podcasting microphones. You've probably seen us talk about these
on our channel before this one is the ATR 2100. The new model of this is the
ACR 2100 X, but it's basically the same microphone. And this one is the Sampson.
Q2. You, these are very popular for podcasting because they're USB microphones,
but look, they have a USB. Plug on them. And they also have an XLR plug on them as well.
Yes. I talk like this and then everyday life as well. And so what,
instead of using it as a USB microphone, what you would do is you would get an XLR cable.
So you just plugged the XLR cable into the microphone,
and then you plug the other side into the zoom recorder. And then like Veronica mentioned
some best practices the night before or an hour or so before you hit the road,
you can actually check your levels. So you're all set up to go and we'll show you when we get to
the location to exactly how we do that set up and the menu items inside the zoom recorder.
Just scroll through to find how to set it up to record four microphones at the same time,
these two on the top. And these two on the bottom. So that's going to be really
cool. And the last thing you'll probably want our sympathies as we like to call them,
or windscreens they're little foam pieces that go over the top of your microphone.
Poofy fees help a lot with plosives or those harsh P noises that come from our mountains.
And then finally, before we hit the road and get to the grocery store and show you a little
behind the scenes of us recording our podcast. The other thing to have in mind is microphone
technique. If you're going to be holding the microphone, which I would really recommend,
unless you bring a microphone, stand with you, but then that's more gear you have to pack with.
You just have in mind and let your guests know too. It's not be moving it around a
lot and try to just kind of hold it steady and soft. So there's not very much handling noise
and keep it pretty close to your mouth. Especially in noisy environments. The farther the microphone
is away from your mouth, the more of the noise in your environment, that's going to pick up.
So get it really nice and close to your mouth. Make sure that your guest does
the same thing and you will be good to go. Okay. So we have our H 400 zoom recorder.
We have too fancy podcasting microphones, and Hey, we have a couple poopies,
but if you don't have a poofy, no. What else works well as a poofy? A mask.
Okay. So I will hand Ronica the ATR 2100 and an XLR cable. Then I'll plug that into
input. One of the, each four N. I'll repeat this with my Samsung cutie you microphone.
And we can put some notes that we have for our podcast episode in the middle of the
table and put on our food fees. And now to set up the age for end for four track recording,
let's click this menu button here and we have a selection wheel.
Let's scroll down with the wheel until we see mode and select mode.
Now from the mode menu. Oh, we have to scroll down to four channel and select that.
Once we selected that these two microphones on top of the zoom recorder will record.
And these two microphones that we plugged in, we'll also record and we're good to go.
And would you look at that? We are podcasting like a couple pros and we're in a grocery store
and there you go. Passkey. Wasn't that fun? I had a lot of fun and my creative
juices are going crazy. Make sure that you stay tuned because we are going to be
experimenting and recording podcasts in many different locations,
putting different portable gear to the test for you. Let us know in the comments below.
If there's a place that you want us to record our podcasts. Also, don't forget to go to podcast
in smart.com to grab your seat for the free podcasting training with us. And before we go. Two
things. No one even and don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Yep. Happy gasping, amigo.
Oh, it's me. The portability portability. This is the problem with having a monitor. You know,
I shouldn't have a monitor. Okay. Here we go.