How I make my podcast — the equipment

Making a podcast is simple, doesn’t need too expensive devices and you can record your voice with a medium quality with your smartphone, too. I have evolved my equipment in these 3 years I make my episodes and, let me say, there’s actually a great difference from the firsts and last ones.

First three or four episode I used my smartphone Android, a voice memo app and a little microphone, a Lavalier. But speaking in front of a microphone it’s not enough to have to a good output quality, nor use a good equipment. In the really first episode, the Pilote, I kept my microphone too distant from my mouth, so there were ambient noise and an horrible reverber all long the episode.

The second one was better, I had the Lavalier attached over my skirt but every time I moved myself, there was noise. I was waiting my first purchase for podcast, a portable Zoom N1 microphone, with 2 condenser capsules into it and a SD-card. I bought also an option pack with a foam to put over microphone and a table stand. I didn’t know how a microphone operated, I was ever too distance from it so quality went better but not so much. Check, and chat with expert friends, was the way I started to learn how to use that device. Then I discovered the DAW.

Until that moment I simply copied the mp3 from the SD-card to my podcast host. With a DAW (I use Audacity) I…