How To Start A Podcast in 2018 - Best Microphone & Getting on iTunes!

I'm sure there's a more glamorous way of doing that welcome to another juicy look now if you're thinking of citing a podcast we recently that's kind of the first thing we're telling you guys we are launching a podcast let me see for excited say if you've got any questions on like the camera gear to use and how to film it if you want to film it this audio and visual will microphones to use we've been doing a lot of research over the past few weeks and you think we found a pretty great setup that's quite good if you're on a budget and if you want to get some stuff sorted quite quickly for now [Music] guys it's me a back of mischief welcome to our studio well it's not a studio yet we're going to transform this place that is the great thing about podcasting now you don't need you don't need to hire house studio you don't need loads of fancy equipment you don't need to do anything other than be in your own home there's only a few things that you need to do to prep the place we're gonna do that now we need to get this place ready to form a new episode of our podcast but I know what you're thinking you're thinking George why are you wearing a mint green t-shirt that is that dry a highlighter so just to talk you through our setup it's very very basic actually we use the desk that we've had in our room anyway we haven't bought anything extra really for the setup other than microphones we've used everything around us haven't we yes this house anyone now is the chair that we had under the desk this one is for my dressing table it was still for me than the bedroom these speakers do I give in and haven't plugged in because we don't have the right cables for them so we use them as stands ever since the cameras so that come is going to go on here to film George we've got the g7x on this one filming me and then you'll see it balanced on that chair is our magic hair box that we balance our phone on to get the wide-angle shots because we've only actually got two cameras and we want to get three shots to work through one podcast we need to use an iPhone for one of them and we like and save it just being like me and George me and George or just a wide-angle we like the idea of both of us having lots of our faces as well as a shot of both mice into each other so this is purely intentional the iPhone sits on there and pokes through there and records I suppose like the main thing you need for a podcast is a microphone you don't need to record them that's just something we choose to do because we like people seeing us react and like how we actually are looking when we're filming it like I'd personally quite interested to see that on someone's podcast so that's what we're doing it the microphone I suppose the main thing so we have bought three of these and this we only bought to begin with to try them out but as we want to have guests on the show sometimes as well so watch this space we've bought a third one and I want to unbox out with you guys today I've got it from Amazon it's called five Fein fi fi na 15 technology it was about 25 pounds we did quite a lot of research as to what will be best for it but we didn't want to spend a fortune because again like if you are buying three microphones we are only just starting out it might be you invest in like a higher quality one later but these are breaks they're so small and it's little box and we genuinely for the price are very very impressed at the quality so far so let's unbox it now obviously you can spend like hundreds on a really good microphone but genuinely like we are impressed with these considering the price and they're very portable as well right so kind of must even iPhone box it's about 100 degrees today I'm not drinking it is like 100 degrees and we need to shut the windows in a minute because of the sound and it's like sweaty I might have to get naked who's that for an IQ podcast me so then they give you like a little user's guide we didn't let you look at that so it's been that here is everything you got to put it together I did nicely up the other ones really well maybe this one Cisco unscrewed so yeah you get like that and then little volume switch to the front and then apparently that's what we have to have the windows choice so low around here you can separate it like traveling wise that's pretty much the bigger it gets and that's damn tiny and then and this guy's is literally plug and play it's USB you don't need any drivers you just plug that into your Mac your Mac recognizes it or your PC or whatever right and you're good to go screw that screw it take this off plug it in and you're good to go and also it's great because it's quite like movable as well so you're safe so you can let rub it in I've done plonk it on here cameraman if you don't mind our angling down slightly for my Niki this one you can unscrew and if to this bit hang on where is it oh that's why it was loose looks like that we've done oh cool so you've actually tighten that cuz I was moaning with young ones it was like wobbling oh yeah so this where the end this is the actual front that might create although it's like both sides that's the actual front and you can adjust the volume from here but if you're safe yourself like sat here and you want to speak into it here then you can twist it there if it's it like you want it facing upwards because like you're lower then you can angle that can do that as well ah and we bought some hats for them where we put some hats at them flat and they're like watching pudding pop pop they're just like that's you know that's the windscreens yep that's exactly what I think of when I say the word windscreen I think it was like four pounds or eight so we've got eight cuz I feel like these could like rip quite easily but literally pop a little hat on the guy just about like cover enough like they don't go right right the bottom all the way around the edge Center when you speak into there sometimes like if you don't have one of these and you're like going / I like and it kind of like jumps and noise of a bit doesn't it like how would you say that yeah it just kind of distorts slightly just just stops that okay as much as you want amazing you can spit on a note so a very quick technical section here now guys and this'll only apply to you if you want to use a two or three mic setup we obviously have a mic each and we're using a Mac so something you have to do on your map before you can use two mics as an input if you're a Windows user I'm sorry I don't know the answer for this but if you're a Mac user you have to go to your utilities folder and open up audio MIDI setup and see how I've made one here already you have to go to this little plus and you have to go to create aggregate device and then you choose your two USBs rename that I've done already so I'm just going to leave this one you rename it to mic setup so once you're in GarageBand you need a two-track project and you go up to preferences and then audio MIDI here and then you go input device to mic setup you see I've created it here earlier then to enable us to actually have sound coming in to these tracks you knees go up here to track and then configure track header Oh then you get this up then you need to click on the record button here and then go into the necks okay it's done for both of them and then they are both on and working podcast filming complete I keep saying filming recording we film it as well obviously we've got the track in GarageBand now so we just need to like mix that down we've put some effects on it we like normalize it and compress it slightly just so if there's any really loud bits they don't like ruin the ears of the listener so I guess the final bit of starting a podcast is out getting it out there so we're using anchor and anchor is an app on the iPhone but it's also a web service we've got no links to anchor at all we're not working with them or anything like that but we found it was the easiest way to get our podcast out on all the necessary platforms in one go very very easily you basically set up an account you can put your little artwork icon on there so you can either download the anchor app and you can record your podcast straight from your phone but obviously we wanted a bit of a better setup we wanted the two mics wanted to be able to edit if we wanted to make a video out of it as well anchor allow you to upload your exported audio to their service and then it gets distributed everywhere so super super good thanks for watching this video today guys have a bit of the behind-the-scenes of us starting to build our podcast if you start a podcast to drop a link below we'll check it out let us know let's have a chat about it we're so excited this is like something we've wanted to do for a while we're finally doing it finally starting it was absolutely boring in here so Lucy's actually jumped straight into a cold shower after we finished recording so we're gonna leave this video here hope you enjoyed it 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