A Podcasting Equipment Guide
Dan Benjamin has posted some notes on what he considers good setups for podcasting.
I have no disagreements with what he has listed. But many of my better podcasts are done “in the field,” and for that, I use a 5th generation iPod with a Belkin stereo microphone. While this set up does pick up the iPod’s hard disk writing sound, using an iPod nano would not. The microphone quality isn’t the same as one of the “prosumer” setups Benjamin describes, but it certainly very good.
I use Apple’s Soundtrack Pro (part of FinalCut Studio Pro) to edit. To each track, I typically add a very dry mix of reverb, and a compressor filter. This combined with the iPod microphone makes for a very good sound. Listen to TechTimes Live, my podcast.