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How professional does your podcast sound? What recording software do you use? Do you record your podcast in a closet? Should you upgrade your equipment? What's the best mic, at the best price? I get questions about these things from podcasters all the time. And I haven't really answered them much, because, in most cases, podcasters need to focus more on their content and premise than their equipment. But, it's true, sound quality is indeed important. And, it's actually way easier - and cheaper! - than you think to have a really professional-sounding podcast. In fact, when I recorded the first 30 episodes of Philly Who?, I did it with two $98 SM58 mics, that's it! No studio, no $400 mic. I literally just carried the two mics in my backpack and recorded the interviews in random conference rooms. Yet, the most common feedback I got back then was how professional the show sounded. So, how is it done? How can you get top-notch recording quality, anywhere, on a budget? Today Rockwell Felder is here to break down the answers. Rockwell is the Co-Founder and CFO of Squadcast, a remote recording software platform for podcasters. On this episode of Grow The Show, he is going to talk about how you can get crisp, high-quality podcast audio, without spending a fortune on complicated equipment or state-of-the-art studio time. In fact, with just a few adjustments, and the right technique, you can have professional-sounding audio by the next time you sit down to record! Resources Mentioned: Squadcast: Use this link to sign up (https://growthe.show/squadcast) and use promo code "growtheshow" and you'll be able to try the platform for free for an entire month! Shure MV7 Microphone (https://growthe.show/mv7) ATR2100 Microphone (https://growthe.show/atr2100) Between Two Mics podcast Want to join a community of high-performing independent podcasters? Want to swap tactics, get feedback, and grow together? Want to have your questions answered during AMAs with podcasting legends? Join us in the Grow The Show online community!: https://growthe.show/fb Ready to have Kevin join your podcasting team? Apply for the Grow The Show Podcast Accelerator!: https://growtheshow.com/apply or watch Kevin's 70-minute Masterclass on how he took his first podcast past 100k and $100k to learn more about the program: https://growthe.show/masterclass
This episode Brad, Chuck and Brooks go over what it looks like getting a podcast started for lead gen. everything from positioning strategy to tactics and hosting this is a great overview on podcasting basics. Panelists Brad Large Brooks Forsyth Charles Max Wood Sponsors Cloudways | Use promo code "DEVCHAT" for 30% off for 3 months on all plans Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Picks Brooks Forsyth: Vikings Brad Large: PowerPress Brad's Intro Music Charles Max Wood: ATR2100 Microphone Buzzsprout Devchat Workshops
This episode Brad, Chuck and Brooks go over what it looks like getting a podcast started for lead gen. everything from positioning strategy to tactics and hosting this is a great overview on podcasting basics. Panelists Brad Large Brooks Forsyth Charles Max Wood Sponsors Cloudways | Use promo code "DEVCHAT" for 30% off for 3 months on all plans Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Picks Brooks Forsyth: Vikings Brad Large: PowerPress Brad's Intro Music Charles Max Wood: ATR2100 Microphone Buzzsprout Devchat Workshops
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Greg Wilson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Past Episode – 184 JavaScript The one unavoidable language. Company in Canada – Rangle. 1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware. Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58! Rangle – what a great company! Emily Porta Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry. How did you get into programming? Queen’s University – 1980. Started off as chemistry major. From Vancouver, Canada. Engineering degree. Got hired to do math with computers. Software. 1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa. Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland. Ph.D. Academia. Moved to Toronto. Ruby Greg is a Python user. Not familiar with Ruby. Violence and video games? Where is the data? If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true. For example: are vaccines dangerous? Professor Marian Petre – Open University Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre Links: Digital Ocean, LLC FreshBooks Greg Wilson’s Third Bit Greg Wilson’s Twitter Greg Wilson’s GitHub Greg Wilson’s LinkedIn Greg Wilson’s “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True” JavaScript Past Episode – 184 Rangle Rangle’s Bridge Python Ruby Professor Marian Petre – Open University Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre CacheFly Charles Max Wood’s Twitter Sponsor: Digital Ocean, LLC Picks: Charles St. George, Utah Parade of Homes Upside Bose SoundLink Headphones ATR2100 Microphone Greg Rangle’s Bridge Inclusivity and diversity AOSABOOK.ORG Samson Meteor Microphone
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Greg Wilson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Past Episode – 184 JavaScript The one unavoidable language. Company in Canada – Rangle. 1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware. Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58! Rangle – what a great company! Emily Porta Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry. How did you get into programming? Queen’s University – 1980. Started off as chemistry major. From Vancouver, Canada. Engineering degree. Got hired to do math with computers. Software. 1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa. Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland. Ph.D. Academia. Moved to Toronto. Ruby Greg is a Python user. Not familiar with Ruby. Violence and video games? Where is the data? If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true. For example: are vaccines dangerous? Professor Marian Petre – Open University Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre Links: Digital Ocean, LLC FreshBooks Greg Wilson’s Third Bit Greg Wilson’s Twitter Greg Wilson’s GitHub Greg Wilson’s LinkedIn Greg Wilson’s “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True” JavaScript Past Episode – 184 Rangle Rangle’s Bridge Python Ruby Professor Marian Petre – Open University Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre CacheFly Charles Max Wood’s Twitter Sponsor: Digital Ocean, LLC Picks: Charles St. George, Utah Parade of Homes Upside Bose SoundLink Headphones ATR2100 Microphone Greg Rangle’s Bridge Inclusivity and diversity AOSABOOK.ORG Samson Meteor Microphone
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Greg Wilson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Past Episode – 184 JavaScript The one unavoidable language. Company in Canada – Rangle. 1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware. Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58! Rangle – what a great company! Emily Porta Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry. How did you get into programming? Queen’s University – 1980. Started off as chemistry major. From Vancouver, Canada. Engineering degree. Got hired to do math with computers. Software. 1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa. Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland. Ph.D. Academia. Moved to Toronto. Ruby Greg is a Python user. Not familiar with Ruby. Violence and video games? Where is the data? If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true. For example: are vaccines dangerous? Professor Marian Petre – Open University Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre Links: Digital Ocean, LLC FreshBooks Greg Wilson’s Third Bit Greg Wilson’s Twitter Greg Wilson’s GitHub Greg Wilson’s LinkedIn Greg Wilson’s “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True” JavaScript Past Episode – 184 Rangle Rangle’s Bridge Python Ruby Professor Marian Petre – Open University Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre CacheFly Charles Max Wood’s Twitter Sponsor: Digital Ocean, LLC Picks: Charles St. George, Utah Parade of Homes Upside Bose SoundLink Headphones ATR2100 Microphone Greg Rangle’s Bridge Inclusivity and diversity AOSABOOK.ORG Samson Meteor Microphone
Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Cher Stewart Erik Hanchett In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss how they each got into Vue and how you can go about learning Vue yourself. They really suggest utilizing the Vue website for tutorials and for help navigating the framework, especially in the beginning. They also discuss many great resources you can use to learn about this framework, especially if you are just starting out, and encourage you to look into them and get started on working with Vue! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Panelist intros Progressive web apps How did you each get into Vue? Vue Ember.js Angular Not wanting to be outdated as a programmer React Recommendations for how to go about learning Vue Using the Vue website Udemy Vue course Vue.js Developers Vue.js news Vue Vixens VueConf US Framework Summit The importance of building a community across frameworks Build a To-Do App with Vue.js 2 Vue.js in Action by Erik Hanchett Sometimes it takes going through a couple books before finding what you really want How are people writing with Vue? Vue is very un-opinionated and progressive ES6 and TypeScript And much, much more! Links: Vue.js in Action by Erik Hanchett Framework Summit DevChat.tv React Round Up Vue Joe Eames Pluralsight Ember.js Angular React Udemy course Vue.js Developers Vue.js news Vue Vixens VueConf US Build a To-Do App with Vue.js 2 ES6 TypeScript @CodeHitchhiker @JosephEames @CMaxW Picks: Charles RE-20 Microphone ATR2100 Microphone Xenyx 802 Mixer Roland R-09 React Dev Summit Framework Summit Joe Counterpart Sagrada Board Game Cher Aquascaping Erik Keybase.io
Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Cher Stewart Erik Hanchett In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss how they each got into Vue and how you can go about learning Vue yourself. They really suggest utilizing the Vue website for tutorials and for help navigating the framework, especially in the beginning. They also discuss many great resources you can use to learn about this framework, especially if you are just starting out, and encourage you to look into them and get started on working with Vue! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Panelist intros Progressive web apps How did you each get into Vue? Vue Ember.js Angular Not wanting to be outdated as a programmer React Recommendations for how to go about learning Vue Using the Vue website Udemy Vue course Vue.js Developers Vue.js news Vue Vixens VueConf US Framework Summit The importance of building a community across frameworks Build a To-Do App with Vue.js 2 Vue.js in Action by Erik Hanchett Sometimes it takes going through a couple books before finding what you really want How are people writing with Vue? Vue is very un-opinionated and progressive ES6 and TypeScript And much, much more! Links: Vue.js in Action by Erik Hanchett Framework Summit DevChat.tv React Round Up Vue Joe Eames Pluralsight Ember.js Angular React Udemy course Vue.js Developers Vue.js news Vue Vixens VueConf US Build a To-Do App with Vue.js 2 ES6 TypeScript @CodeHitchhiker @JosephEames @CMaxW Picks: Charles RE-20 Microphone ATR2100 Microphone Xenyx 802 Mixer Roland R-09 React Dev Summit Framework Summit Joe Counterpart Sagrada Board Game Cher Aquascaping Erik Keybase.io
Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Cory House AJ O'Neal Joe Eames Special Guests: None In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists speak on where they are what they are up to today. Aimee is still in Nashville, Tennessee, and it is currently working at Built Technologies and is working with JavaScript. Cory is still authoring courses for Pluralsite, has more recently been doing consulting with React, and is the principal engineer at Cox Automotive. Joe is doing a lot of Pluralsight work, puts together conferences, and is working on a new podcast with Charles. AJ recently did some side work with Dash, is interested in working on a new domain service, and recently got married. Charles is currently at ngATL conference, and has been attending a lot of conferences recently. He is also starting to head over to the video realm and is creating a new podcast called React Roundup and a View Podcast with Joe. They also talk about what they each have planned in the upcoming year for their careers and their lives. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Built Technologies JavaScript Front End and Full Stack Pluralsite React consulting Cox Automotive Front end apps View and React podcast Angular JS to Angular Pluralsight courses Big Picture React courses Fork of Bitcoin called Dash New domain service ngATL React Roundup Podcast New podcasts on artificial intelligence, IOT, augmented and virtual reality game development, python Node, JavaScript, and Rust And much, much more! Links: Linode Built Technologies Pluralsite Cox Automotive Dash ngATL DevChat.tv Youtube FreshBooks Picks: Charles ATR2100 Microphone Zoom H6 Apple AirPods ngATL ngGirls Aimee Improving Ourselves to Death What Does Code Readability Mean? Cory JavaScript Tip Tweet AJ How to Start a Startup YouTube Series Singham Movie Joe WebFlow.com
Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Cory House AJ O'Neal Joe Eames Special Guests: None In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists speak on where they are what they are up to today. Aimee is still in Nashville, Tennessee, and it is currently working at Built Technologies and is working with JavaScript. Cory is still authoring courses for Pluralsite, has more recently been doing consulting with React, and is the principal engineer at Cox Automotive. Joe is doing a lot of Pluralsight work, puts together conferences, and is working on a new podcast with Charles. AJ recently did some side work with Dash, is interested in working on a new domain service, and recently got married. Charles is currently at ngATL conference, and has been attending a lot of conferences recently. He is also starting to head over to the video realm and is creating a new podcast called React Roundup and a View Podcast with Joe. They also talk about what they each have planned in the upcoming year for their careers and their lives. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Built Technologies JavaScript Front End and Full Stack Pluralsite React consulting Cox Automotive Front end apps View and React podcast Angular JS to Angular Pluralsight courses Big Picture React courses Fork of Bitcoin called Dash New domain service ngATL React Roundup Podcast New podcasts on artificial intelligence, IOT, augmented and virtual reality game development, python Node, JavaScript, and Rust And much, much more! Links: Linode Built Technologies Pluralsite Cox Automotive Dash ngATL DevChat.tv Youtube FreshBooks Picks: Charles ATR2100 Microphone Zoom H6 Apple AirPods ngATL ngGirls Aimee Improving Ourselves to Death What Does Code Readability Mean? Cory JavaScript Tip Tweet AJ How to Start a Startup YouTube Series Singham Movie Joe WebFlow.com
Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Cory House AJ O'Neal Joe Eames Special Guests: None In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists speak on where they are what they are up to today. Aimee is still in Nashville, Tennessee, and it is currently working at Built Technologies and is working with JavaScript. Cory is still authoring courses for Pluralsite, has more recently been doing consulting with React, and is the principal engineer at Cox Automotive. Joe is doing a lot of Pluralsight work, puts together conferences, and is working on a new podcast with Charles. AJ recently did some side work with Dash, is interested in working on a new domain service, and recently got married. Charles is currently at ngATL conference, and has been attending a lot of conferences recently. He is also starting to head over to the video realm and is creating a new podcast called React Roundup and a View Podcast with Joe. They also talk about what they each have planned in the upcoming year for their careers and their lives. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Built Technologies JavaScript Front End and Full Stack Pluralsite React consulting Cox Automotive Front end apps View and React podcast Angular JS to Angular Pluralsight courses Big Picture React courses Fork of Bitcoin called Dash New domain service ngATL React Roundup Podcast New podcasts on artificial intelligence, IOT, augmented and virtual reality game development, python Node, JavaScript, and Rust And much, much more! Links: Linode Built Technologies Pluralsite Cox Automotive Dash ngATL DevChat.tv Youtube FreshBooks Picks: Charles ATR2100 Microphone Zoom H6 Apple AirPods ngATL ngGirls Aimee Improving Ourselves to Death What Does Code Readability Mean? Cory JavaScript Tip Tweet AJ How to Start a Startup YouTube Series Singham Movie Joe WebFlow.com
This weekend I had "Christmas" with most of my family as my brother goes to Florida for Christmas with his in-laws. We bought my nieces and nephews who are ages 8 and under some of the toys we grew up playing. I noticed that these games are often very simplistic. What does this have to do with podcasting? Becuase sometimes we make things harder than they need to be. Because Of My Podcast - I'm Getting to Talk to Some Very Cool People Darryl E. McCullough Darryl hosts the Full Circle Podcast and helped launch National Podcast Power conference. Daryl has met actors, authors, politicians, YouTube Stars and more. If you want to get doors opened, start a podcast today. Keeping Simple Is Sometimes All You Need I spent the weekend playing with my great-nieces and nephew. We brought out some classc board games. Battling Tops My entire family ended up playing this game by the end of the day. What makes it a great game is that it is easy to learn and the action is fast and furious. The tops come out the gate very fast and often one or two of the tops go flying out of the arena. You pull a "string" (now a plastic tie with teeth) and the tops go into what amounts to a bowl and bounce off each other. The last one in the bowl spinning wins. Simple. Checkers This is another game that takes very little skill, and you get to the action fairly quickly. It takes some thought and strategy. Hide and Go Seek This game requires the ability to count to ten Mississippi. There is suspense, and tension as you wait to see if you can get home without being caught. Here again, it requires a good hiding spot and strategy to determine when you would try to "go home." I love helping people understand the best path to get to your podcast going in the right direction. There are times when people ask a question and they expect a simple answer, but the absolute truth about podcasting is there are very few absolute truths. The other thing I want to talk about today is letting your personality shine. So many people make podcasting harder than it is. Don't get me wrong there is still a learning curve, but some time we make the curve much higher than it needs to be. Sometimes Too Much Technology Can Take the Fun Out of Things I do a show called "Ask the Podcast Coach" and at one point I had a cohost located in another state, a phone line coming in (with a screen where I could put people on hold and see my callers), and I had a chat room. I streamed it live on Google Hangouts (now YouTube live), as well as mixlr.com and spreaker.com When I started the show I needed eight arms to start everything. My co-host and I Jim Collison (from theaverageguy.tv) noticed that most of our questions come in via chat. We still offer the ability to join the Google Hangout, but I would say 98% of our questions come in via chat. We also stream the show via Google Hangout and based on audience feedback, only stream via mixlr.com (for those who want an audio only). Simple Can Work and Sound Great My friend Cale Nelson from the Modern Christian Men show (and previously Ham Radio 360) got an email from a listener. In it, they said, " You have always sounded great! Better than some national broadcasts/podcasts." So what equipment does Cale Use? Did he spend thousands of dollars? He is using an ATR2100 Microphone, Yamaha MG12XU Mixer, Zoom H2n Digital Recorder. Record Locally to Zoom, then Edit in Audacity. Bernie The Cat Wishes Everyone Happy Holidays 13:44 Bernie from the Bernie the Cat Show stops by to wish everyone Happy Holidays. New Statistics From Apple inside PodcastsConnect. Apple.com 14:45 See Video https://youtu.be/VmSDwb3iU9s New Stats From Blubrry and Libsyn 20:28 Libsyn.com launched a new stats interface that works on your phone. The backend of the stats system now provides IAB compliant (once the IAB launches their certification) stats. Blubrry Statistics just got better, with the introduction of regional reporting for Canada, UK, and Brazil. More Information Get a free month of Service at Libsyn.com or Blubrry.com using the coupon code sopfree. Where You Can Find Me In Person 22:41 February 8 -10 Orlando Florida Podfest.us I will be speaking on AI and Podcasting and I will be Roasted. February 28 - March 2 in San Diego California Social Media Marketing World Speaking on Podcast Monetization What Podcast is the Easiest Show To Create? 26:48 There are a number of formats you can choose from when creating a podcast. You can do a show with just you (a monologue) You can do a show with a co-host You can do a show with a panel Looking at the above list, one might think a solo show would be the easiest. Why? No scheduling conflicts, no arguments over the direction of the show. You have total control. So what is the problem? You need to be comfortable talking to the wall. It takes a little confidence to pull this off. Michael Hyatt is one of my favorite authors. I read his book Platform every January to kick of my year. Michael has publicly stated that he is not comfortable doing a solo show. So then doing a show with a co-host is easier? This sounds true up front. You don't have to do all the work, and there is another person to help promote the show. But you now have the occasional challenge of scheduling conflicts. The more people you have, the harder it is to get everyone together. The solution is to pick a time when everyone knows you will be recording and make a commitment to that time. This is easier said than done, especially when multiple time zones are included, and multiple life configurations are included (kids, jobs, etc). So again, it depends. Taking Phone Calls I think we all grew up listening to radio shows who take phone calls and we want to recreate that scenario. So how do you take phone calls. The answer? It depends. If you are doing a solo show, you can get a Google Voice Number or a Toll-Free Number at Podcastvoicemail.com and plug the phone into a mixer using your headphone jack. Then you can talk into your microphone that goes into the mixer, you plug the phone into the mixer, and send the mix of you and the phone out to a service like Mixlr.com Send the same output into a portable recorder like a Zoom H1. But what if you have a co-host? What if you want a phone screener? Then things get way more complicated including two mix-minus setups that I won't even attempt to explain it here (it would be something we could do some consulting on). The bottom line is, "It depends" Sometimes You Have to Jump In I bought myself a new 55" TV for Christmas. I brought it home, and went to put it on my old TV stand, and it was too big. I had to buy a bigger stand. Then I went to plug it into my sound bar, and you guessed it. Even though both the TV and the soundbar were from the same company, I needed to go buy a new cable to plug in. Some things you only learn things by doing them. If you want to avoid making the common podcast mistakes when it comes to planning your show, purchasing gear, promoting your show, I urge you to sign up for the School of Podcasting or join the Podcasting in Six Weeks Course which is starting on January 6th. How Can Help You? One-on-one Podcast Consulting. Schedule a Session Today Learn At Your Own Pace at the School of Podcasting Group Coaching "Podcasting in Six Weeks" Course (includes 1 year at the School of Podcasting)