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Hey. It's Matt. Welcome to Money Lab. Today I don't know. I had this idea because today is podcasting day for me that I would, go over my podcasting process.
Matt Giovanisci:I have been podcasting since technically 2,008. I studied a little bit of broadcasting in high school. Very interested in the talk radio format. I could honestly, you know, I I I say all of this, and my first thought is like, I should podcast more, and I of course I'm doing this, but I'm alone. And the other podcast that I'm gonna talk about, or actually I have 2 other podcasts, I also do those alone.
Matt Giovanisci:And I would love to just be able to podcast with some friends, do like a fun you know, just just to be funny, not to talk about any specific topic like beer or or, you know, you know, just just to be funny. Just to be fun. Be something I would love to do, but not today. Today, I'm just gonna talk about my process. And I have a few processes, and I'm gonna talk about past processes.
Matt Giovanisci:And this episode is really just for anyone who's looking to get into podcasting. I'm gonna recommend if you like talking and you can just kind of free form, free associate, then podcasting is certainly an option. Just know that any podcast that I've ever started has been a very, very slow growth, but it is very rewarding. So I'll I'll start at the beginning. The very, very, very beginning, I had a podcast called the Arctic Fox.
Matt Giovanisci:It was a podcast that I started with some friends of mine, and it was an entertaining entertainment podcast specifically geared towards one person, my friend, Carlson. He, was I for I think he was in Qatar or, like, Qatar, whatever you wanna however you wanna say it, for the military purposes. And and he was like he he gave me the ideas. Like, hey. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a podcast that, like, we could keep in touch that way?
Matt Giovanisci:And I was like, oh, yeah. I I love the idea of podcasting. I grew up recording music, so, you know, recording audio, not a big deal to me, or recording, you know, voices, super easy. So kind of was a no brainer. Got together with, 3 other friends.
Matt Giovanisci:We started in my parents' basement, and then we were all just, like, holding microphones because my dad has a ton of mics and a ton of equipment and was able to multi track record. So, you know, I grew up learning that. I grew up knowing that stuff, so it feels very it feels very easy to me, and I understand that it's very difficult, and that's sort of what I wanna go through in this podcast is to kind of and, again, there's so much more technology that has come out specifically for podcasting that need you may not even need to know, but I'm just gonna tell you what I would recommend. So that's how we started. We eventually, moved it to my friend's apartment, and we took his dining room, which never really used as a dining room.
Matt Giovanisci:It was actually a recording studio. We had a table set up in the middle, a big computer, piano, guitars, and we had all the mics set up on the on the table. And my friend brought his laptop and he was the sound guy, like, did sound effects, and so we would, like, adlib songs, we would, you know, interview people through phone calls. It was it was nuts. Super fun.
Matt Giovanisci:I think it lasted like 15 to 20 episodes, and we did it every week and it was like planned out. It was it was great. It was a good time. Fast forward, you know, many, many years later, I was working with Andrew Febert who at the time well, I guess he still does. Listen.
Matt Giovanisci:Money Matters was the name of the website. And so we would always we were, like, kinda not business partners at the time, but we were just sort of, like, buddies trying to figure out online business together. And he has we would always do these Skype calls, and his wife said that we were entertaining to listen to, like, kind of in the background. So we thought, alright. Let's let's do a personal finance podcast.
Matt Giovanisci:I actually I was like, hey. If you're interested in doing this, I know how to do a podcast. Not not difficult for me. He was like, yeah. Alright.
Matt Giovanisci:Fine. If you're if you can do it, like, let's do it. And the idea was to do it in the style of, like, a morning zoo type of show. So I was, at the time, I grew up, you know, I was in I grew up in Philadelphia, and Preston and Steve was the morning show, that the the popular morning show in Philadelphia. And I modeled, Listen Money Matters kind of off that.
Matt Giovanisci:The the the intro music was heavy metal, and it was a a song that I was just, like, kinda, like, threw together. And I kinda wanted to come in with, like, a ton of, like, morning zoo energy for a personal finance podcast. I thought there was a juxtaposition there. I think now people have done that since, but I feel like we were the first to tackle personal finance in a more relatable, non nerdy way. And we were we were joking around and it was just the 2 of us, and it started as a weekly podcast.
Matt Giovanisci:We didn't see much traction in at the time, you know, I had I had had my microphone, which was a condenser mic. It was a RODE something. I don't remember. Plugged it into a some other, device. I don't remember.
Matt Giovanisci:Not important. And, you know, I got Andrew the exact same setup on at his house, and we did everything through Skype. And I and I actually, we were using Ecamm call recorder for Skype at the time. Now, we ended up starting to do weekly sorry, daily episodes after we had gone to podcast movement. No.
Matt Giovanisci:That's not true. We started doing daily episodes May of 2014, and we decided to try it for a month. So we're gonna do 30 day or 31 days in May. We're gonna do it an episode every single day. And the way that we did it is we recorded, like, 7 episodes a day.
Matt Giovanisci:We we kind of kept the timer on for to keep the episodes at around 30 minutes. That month, we saw the most growth we've ever seen. And fast forward to August, which was the very first podcast movement conference, and we ended up talking to Libsyn, which was the company that we were hosting the audio files through. And the guy who I think he owned the company or was head of the company or something, said if you can get to 5,000 downloads an episode, then you can start to get sponsors. And then then that September, we hit that goal.
Matt Giovanisci:So that that was in the golden age when that was, like the big podcaster in my circles was John Lee Dumas because he was doing daily episode. I don't even know if he's still around or if he even does episodes. I mean, I have no idea, to be honest. But he was doing daily episodes, and we thought, alright. We'll we'll we'll experiment for a month and see what happens.
Matt Giovanisci:And, yeah, it happened. I ended up leaving that show and I've been back a few times. I've been on, beer podcast. I have obviously this podcast, and I just started 2 new podcasts about pools and hot tubs, respectively. So I so just today so every Friday, I'm recording this on a Friday, I I kinda give myself the option to record around 1 to 4 episodes, and then I schedule them to to go out every Monday.
Matt Giovanisci:And so right now, I'm a month ahead for 2 podcasts. And then, obviously, this podcast, I am many months ahead. And I wanna talk about the equipment and process that I use because they're different. Now just to get it just to be meta and get that get it out of the way, here's how I do the Money Lab Podcast. As of this recording, I've been doing this consistently for 4 months.
Matt Giovanisci:I've been publishing 3 episodes a week, and it is incredibly low tech. So the only tech that I use is my iPhone, which and I use the voice memo app that's built into the phone. And I have thought about upgrading equipment and doing other things and making it sound more professional, but this has worked for me because my recording device is always on me at any given time. So if I feel inspired like I just was, I can stand up, start pacing around, and start recording. Simple as that.
Matt Giovanisci:I can record anywhere I want, and the audio quality is what it is. Alright? As an audio file, it pains me to put out this, but it's the only way that it'll actually happen. If I have to sit down in front of a microphone and edit and all of that stuff, your Money Lab's not happening. Alright?
Matt Giovanisci:And I've been consistent, and I'm way ahead of schedule. And so if anyone out there is thinking that just feels like it shouldn't be done, do it, and then prove me wrong or prove me right. I think this is working for me, and it's working for though they know I mean, the complaints, I've gotten very little, if if at all. So the process after that is I record the episode on my memo app. Right?
Matt Giovanisci:And, look, there are other apps that clean up the audio, make it sound, quote, unquote, better. I personally don't think it sounds better. I think the, like there's, like, the AI podcasting thing from Adobe. I think it sounds like shit. Personally, I'd much rather have clean, non doctored audio.
Matt Giovanisci:It just one, it feels more real, and it doesn't sound like shit to me. I'm a little, again, little bit of an audio nerd, so any sort of, like, over processing, I can hear a mile away, and I'm like, fucking please turn that off. So I record on the memos app. As soon as I'm done recording, I title the episode in the app itself. So I literally just type the title of the episode, and then I hit enter and it's saved.
Matt Giovanisci:The next time I go to my laptop, whenever that is and whenever I feel like, oh, okay. It's like, we need more episodes, I pull up the voice memo app on the Mac because there's an there's an this app, and it's synced. Right? I just take the episodes that are not in Transistor, which is the Transistor is the hosting company that I use for the podcast. So that's the one I recommend, moneylab.co/ transistor.
Matt Giovanisci:And so I look at the most recent episodes I have already scheduled, and I go, okay. What's the next one? Boom. I take those files and drag and drop them on my desktop. Drag all of them on my desktop in a row.
Matt Giovanisci:Then I go into transistor. I copy and paste the actual title from the file name, because I think it it exports as an m four a, just kinda like an MP 3. I just copy and paste that title, stick the title in, and that's it. I don't add a description. I used to, and I just thought just adding more work, and it makes it less fun and who gives a shit, and so I don't do it.
Matt Giovanisci:I let the title speak for itself. That's just that process. I'm making it super easy. Right? For me, it's all about quantity at this point.
Matt Giovanisci:I could go back and add text to it if I wanted to, but I don't. Right? And then I, yeah, drag the file in, uploads it, schedule it for the next Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, done. Way ahead of schedule. The easiest podcasting process I have ever done.
Matt Giovanisci:And, again, people email me, they provide feedback, and no one's like, your audio is so bad I can't listen to it. Now maybe you will. Email me matt@moneylab.co. That's that podcast. Right?
Matt Giovanisci:Lo fi, simple, but the content is fucking nonstop. Alright? You can do that. Start it you know, with Transistor, you can start unlimited podcasts. Start a podcast about anything and do it this way, see what happens.
Matt Giovanisci:You know? Would this work with 2 people? I mean, yeah, if you if you did it like a man on the street style interview where you held the phone and just went back and forth. But yeah. Now I have 2 other podcasts.
Matt Giovanisci:1 is called Pool School. The other is called Hot Tubs 101, and they are for Swim University. The process is as follows. I and we'll talk about let's talk about equipment first. So for that one, I use a very different setup.
Matt Giovanisci:I am this is my this is my pro setup. So I use a Shure SM7 B industry standard broadcasting microphone. Okay? It's quite ex it's expensive for, I guess, a microphone, like, if you're comparing it to, like, a Shure SM or SMA or, you know so it it's, you know, 350, I think, for the microphone. It comes with 2 different windscreens.
Matt Giovanisci:It comes with a thin windscreen and a very thick, fat windscreen. I personally use the thick, fat windscreen because I do not like the popping sound that you get with the other one. People seem not to mind, but I personally don't like it. So I like a clean a clean audio track. And that I I believe that particular microphone or that windscreen is built for voice overs.
Matt Giovanisci:So that's why I use it. That microphone is a gain heavy mic. It is also a dynamic mic. So the difference, the way that I explain it, between a dynamic mic and a condenser mic is a condenser mic picks up the room. Right?
Matt Giovanisci:Unless it's a shotgun mic or a or a a unidirectional. Most condenser mics are omnidirectional, where they pick up the sound of the room. Now they make podcasting mics that are condenser mics that are unidirectional, meaning they kinda point in one direction and they cancel out the noise around it. But for my money, I still hear that room noise, especially when I'm wearing headphones. So it kinda drives me nuts.
Matt Giovanisci:Dynamic microphones require not all of them require a lot of gain. This one particularly requires a lot of gain. Condenser mics usually require what's called phantom power, which is just extra power to power the microphone. And I believe, like, between that and just the style of the condenser microphone, I just hear room noise. No matter what mic I I have a $1,000 shotgun microphone that's a condenser mic, so it picks up the room, but it's, you know, it's a shotgun mic, so it's very unidirectional.
Matt Giovanisci:So it cancels all the noise around it. Personally, I still hear it. So, you know, it's fine. I just wouldn't I would just go with a dynamic mic, personally, for for podcasting specifically. Alright?
Matt Giovanisci:So I use that microphone. Now that microphone is not digital. It's, you know, XLR cable, old school. That, you can do it a a few ways. You have to plug it into some type of sound card or sound interface, audio interface.
Matt Giovanisci:There's a bunch of them. The most popular one is the Focusrite Scarlett, I believe is the the you know, Focusrite is the brand. I use a Focusrite rack mount system. They make ones that are that'll only take 1 microphone or take 2 microphones, and then they plug in USB c to your computer. And then they translate the XLR data into, you know, audio that feeds into your computer.
Matt Giovanisci:You need that. You need some kind of interface like that for this particular microphone. Again, I use a Focusrite, but it's rack mount, so I can actually record up to 8 inputs. So 8 different microphones, or direct line in like guitars or, you know, quarter inch cable stuff. I can do that too.
Matt Giovanisci:Right? And then that feeds into my computer via USB c, and I get multiple tracks. Alright? Now, there is a there is an intermediary piece of hardware in between the microphone and the interface. You can use something called a Cloudlifter.
Matt Giovanisci:A Cloudlifter is a little mini box. It is not cheap. It's actually pretty expensive, But it's this little mini box that basically does has no functionality other than to boost the gain for this microphone. Right? And it and boost it cleanly.
Matt Giovanisci:It works fantastic. Without it, you are going to struggle getting audio, getting clean audio from this microphone. Alright? The other thing you can do is use what's called a preamp, and that's what I have switched to. I also have the Cloudlifter, which is what I used before, but now I'm using a preamp.
Matt Giovanisci:Specifically, I'm using a DBX 286 s. It is a single channel preamp. It works for microphones or guitar lines or, you know, whatever. But, basically, it's clean, extra power to power the microphone, and it has a bunch of effects built into it that I can mess with. The most important effect that I use is what's called noise noise cut or it's a noise gate.
Matt Giovanisci:And so as I turn up the noise gate, it reduces the room sound. And that is how I get such clean audio, on that podcast. So if you listen to that podcast, you will hear what sounds very professional. That the the settings of that getting complicated. There's YouTube videos to mess with the settings if you're unfamiliar.
Matt Giovanisci:That is certainly overkill. Alright? If I am, you know, if I'm today, Matt, I'm not buying a Shure SM 7 B. Even though it's an industry standard mic, I am not buying that mic because it requires more parts. It requires you to buy an XLR cable.
Matt Giovanisci:It requires you to buy buy either a Cloudlifter or a preamp, and it requires you to have an audio interface into your computer. It absolutely requires those things. So Shure made something called an m 7 an mv7 or an m7v. I'm not like, actually, I'm sitting right here. Oh, it does not have the name on it.
Matt Giovanisci:Oh, it does. M v 7. Alright? This microphone is essentially the s m 7 b, but a digital version. So it plugs in to your computer directly via USB c, and it's also XLR.
Matt Giovanisci:So if you wanted to do that same setup that I have with this microphone, you absolutely can. And it has a headphone jack, so you can hear yourself. I use that microphone when I'm on other podcasts, and I also use it for all our swimming diversity YouTube videos. Quite frankly, I that's the best that's the best mic, but best mic I've ever used. Hands down.
Matt Giovanisci:Now the only reason I use it for podcasting is because it is digitally altered. It is it's got a computer inside of it. So it is doing processing on the fly from my understanding. It sounds way too fucking good. Right?
Matt Giovanisci:The Shure and other microphones that use XLR, they're just they're they're dumb devices. They just pick up audio, and that's great if you want more control over your sound. And as an audio file, I do. But if I'm just podcasting, the Shure MV 7 is what I'm using. I used to recommend what oh, man.
Matt Giovanisci:Am I gonna remember the name of it? I think it's a audio techno fuck. I don't remember the name. I wish I did. It's a decent mic.
Matt Giovanisci:I still have one. It's USB c as well. It's very similar to the, it's cheaper. It's only a $100. It's probably one of the most popular USB USB c mics on Amazon if you look it up.
Matt Giovanisci:I wanna say it has, like, a thou the one thousand in it, x something. I don't remember. Audio Technica, I believe, is the brand. And that microphone's great also. But the Shure m m 7 v or m d 7 blew it out of the water.
Matt Giovanisci:Alright? So that's the tech. Now as far as computer hardware is concerned or computers, I use a Mac and I use Logic as my recording software, my DAW of choice. Because I've been using Logic since it was called Emagic and earned and, owned by a German company who sold it to Apple. So I was using it before Apple owned it.
Matt Giovanisci:Same with Final Cut. Been using this kind of software for a long time. So I I grew up actually grew up learning, what was called Emagic at the time or e I think Emagic was the brand, Logic was the software. So I've used it ever since. I am never gonna change.
Matt Giovanisci:I I know Pro Tools exists. I know there's a ton of other software. I know there's I mean, I used other things like Cool Edit Pro and Cakewalk and Reason and Pro Tools and, what's the new one now, Ableton. Like, I've used all of them. I've just I understand logic.
Matt Giovanisci:It's it's what works for me. As far as, like, if I were recording with other people, I'd probably be using Riverside. I used SquadCast before. I've used Zencastr before. I think Riverside has just kind of won the game in terms of, like, what it does.
Matt Giovanisci:So, yeah, so I'm going with, Riverside. Obviously, I would love to record people locally. And if I was gonna record with people locally and I wasn't able to record in my basement where I have multiple preamps and my microphone set up and I had to do it, on the fly, I would probably invest in some type of mixing board, like a Rodecaster Pro, is probably the one I would buy, where I could plug, you know, 3 to 4 microphones into the system, put on headphones. I have touch pads for for sound effects. I could listen, and I could record on the fly directly to some sort of recording device.
Matt Giovanisci:I believe the RODECaster has the ability to record directly to a USB or not a USB c, a a sound or an SD card, I believe. If it doesn't, I would just record right to a, I own a Tascam d r 40, which is a field recorder. I'd probably just record directly to that. But I think the RODECaster Pro, you can record directly into the software or into the unit itself. So that's what I would use if I was recording multiple people and I had to do a setup outside of what I had.
Matt Giovanisci:Alright. So now when it comes to process for I'll I'll just talk about Pool School, which is my pool care podcast, and this is the setup so far. So I have or here's what we do. So I've mentioned before on the show that we are a video first company, which means that we that everything we do comes from a single written script. So we write the script for a video.
Matt Giovanisci:That script is passed off to me as the talent as the on screen talent. I put it on a teleprompter. I sit in front of my camera equipment and that actually, that Shure MV 7, and I deliver the script verbatim into the camera, record it, and then send it off to Steph where she edits the video and publishes it. Now that script goes through other phases. So that script, the written script, goes to me where I can decide to turn it into an article or not, depending on if we already have an article on that topic or perhaps to fill in and make and beef up an article or perhaps replace an article that may be old, but the new version is a little bit better.
Matt Giovanisci:Right? The script's a little bit better. The other thing I do with that script is I create a secondary script for recording a podcast episode. So for that, what I do is I create another Google Doc. Right?
Matt Giovanisci:In I have a script folder in my podcast folder, and I just create a new doc, title it exactly the same as the script, but instead, I have a template intro and outro for the podcast that I put in the beginning and the and the end. And then I stick the script in the middle, and I just remove any text from the video script that references videos or wouldn't make sense if I were to read them on a podcast. Alright? So I do that, and then I upload that script to an Asana task, and I schedule it for a date, and I just let it sit there until Friday, which is the day I'm recording this. I get up.
Matt Giovanisci:It's like, alright. Today's podcast recording day. What what's what's next on the docket? And I have every single script completed for Hot Tub, the Hot Tub Podcast, all the way until the end of the year. The pull one, I could do the same, but I'm actually just using the fresh scripts coming from our weekly YouTube videos.
Matt Giovanisci:So I actually don't have that planned in advance. So I take so when I pull up Asana, I usually do it like a week in advance, so I do have it somewhat in advance. I take the script, pull it up, make the make the font really big. I have 2 big monitors. Alright?
Matt Giovanisci:I sit I sit my I sit at my computer. I have my, you know, s m 7 b hooked up to the preamp, hooked up to the sound card, the Focusrite, hooked up to my computer. I bring up logic on my other screen. I have a template in logic that already has the intro and outro music, and I just have my set track. I don't have any effects on that track because my audio going into the computer is fucking perfect.
Matt Giovanisci:So all of my effects are done what's called outboard. Outboard effects is when you have, like, an actual rack mount hard piece of hardware that processes the audio before it even hits your computer. The, inverse is inboard, which would be like plugins or v you know, VST plugins or any sort of effects that would happen in the computer, you know, either as the audio is being recorded or post recording. So I do everything outboard. So alright?
Matt Giovanisci:Now I basically hit record, and I start reading the script. And that's it. Right? I if I mess up the script, I don't care. I sort of adlib and play it off.
Matt Giovanisci:I just go, like and then next, you wanna add your weekly chemical or, like, you're not your weekly chemicals, your monthly chemicals. Of course, that's what I meant to say. And so I sort of kinda make it into a joke. The the only reason I do that is well, I do it for two reasons. 1, I don't wanna edit.
Matt Giovanisci:So the only editing I do is to insert the music. That's it. Right? I also want the podcast to feel a little realer. So I am actively reading a script, but I'm trying my best to to make it sound as natural as possible, as if it's just coming off the top of my head.
Matt Giovanisci:So I take my time, I read the script, I don't read it verbatim, I sort of, like, half read it, if that makes any sense. You know? I'll also throw in, like, as I'm reading the script, I might have a little extra tidbit of insight that I might just throw in to make it feel natural some from time to time. Once I'm done recording it, I do my little edits, which takes all of about 2 seconds. I what's called logic, bouncing the track.
Matt Giovanisci:I bounce the, the track to an MP 3, title it what it's titled. Right? Once it's there, I I keep everything in the folder with the number of the episode, and I always start with a 0. So the first episode was 0 1. The next episode is 2, and that just keeps everything in order.
Matt Giovanisci:And then, obviously, once you get to a 100, it starts to go 1, and then it keeps things in order. Because otherwise, if you start with 123 and don't add at least one zero before it, then it can get flipped with, like once you start doing 11 and 12 and all that stuff. So, and then, you know, start getting in the twenties and starts to order it weird sometimes. Anyway, so I take the m p 3 and I upload it to transistor. I copy and paste the title from the script into the title, and I copy and paste, like, the first two sentences, maybe 3 sentences into transistor as the description.
Matt Giovanisci:I may edit that a little bit just to keep it short and then schedule it, transcribe it with AI, and we're done. May doing an episode takes maybe 5 minutes longer than actually recording it. And so I am doing 2 shows, and I record 4 episodes every Friday. It's been I've been doing that for the last 3 to 4 weeks. And it takes the it takes me so each episode is only, like, between 7 and 15 minutes, roughly.
Matt Giovanisci:And that's the show. That's the show. Now I do another show. I'm I'm a guest on a show called Basic Brewing, and I'm not I'm a frequent guest. I probably appear on the show maybe once every 2 months, maybe.
Matt Giovanisci:I it's probably my cadence. It feels more often, but I think it's once every 2 months. And the way that I do that one is obviously I am just the guest, and it's done remotely. So I bring my the same I only have one microphone that I use for the video. That's the that Shure MV 7.
Matt Giovanisci:I only have one of them. I I say I keep I keep getting the v and the 7 mixed up. M v 7. Yeah. So I only have the one microphone.
Matt Giovanisci:So I remove it from my, studio setup and bring it up to the brewery to record the basic brewing episode in the brewery. I probably should have 2 mics at this point because I do that show so frequently, but, I just thought it's was not like, how hard is it to for me to, like, carry the thing every 2 months up and down a flight of stairs? Like, who gives a shit? Right? And then now, yeah, I just plugged it in my laptop, and we record over Zoom.
Matt Giovanisci:You know? And he and he has his own setup. He does, I believe, what's called a mix minus setup. I mean, I know that's what it's called, but I don't know if he specifically uses that style of setup. I think he does where the way that works, and you can look it up, I think it's overkill personally, especially now with, you know, like, I would never record over Zoom.
Matt Giovanisci:I would use Riverside, personally, if I was gonna do remote podcasting because that way, at least, if I if I wanted the option for video, I had it, Or I would use software like Ecamm Live, if you're using a Mac, where you can invite guests and actually record video at the same time, I would absolutely be doing that. The audio quality is fantastic. And with Zoom, the audio quality is fucking shit. So I'm sure they have something that you can like, some sort of plug in or a thing that you can get now, but I just wouldn't do that. Now what he does is he takes the audio from Zoom that's relatively I think he does a higher quality audio, throws it through the podcaster, mixing board from RODE, and then that and it records it directly onto a SD card, I believe, or possibly an external hard drive.
Matt Giovanisci:That's how he does his setup because he has multiple guests that have different setups. Some people might be on the phone, so he has to he has to figure out a way to do it through the phone. Or, you know, a guest just has bad audio equipment, and at that point, it really doesn't matter. But, again, like, getting somebody to understand how to use Riverside can be kind of a challenge. So Zoom is at least a little bit easier.
Matt Giovanisci:And that's essentially the process. I know it's a lot, but I I just shared 3 different ways you could record a podcast. And when I used to do yeah. When it was when back in the day when I was doing list of money matters, that was before Riverside, SquadCast, Zencast, or all that, all those technologies. We did everything through ECAM call recorder, which was like a $15 plug in that recorded Skype calls.
Matt Giovanisci:And then sometimes, and this was a crapshoot, I would make Andrew record independently on his side, and then I would would record independently on my side, and then he would just send me the m p 3 or the WAV file, and then I would have to match them up in editing software to make it sound decent. And we would usually try to clap at the same time to so I can sync it up in post, but that never really worked. But yeah. So the way that we would do that is we would both record using QuickTime. So with QuickTime, you can record an audio file, select your microphone that's plugged into your computer, and you're off to the races.
Matt Giovanisci:If you have any questions about podcasting, happy to answer them. I feel like at this stage, there is probably no question I wouldn't be able to answer in podcasting. I've done it all. And, honestly, I've even, at one point considered opening up a podcasting studio for rent where, you know, I'd be able to produce shows, because I'm like, I know how to do that really, really well. So a skill I have for maybe a future endeavor, who knows?
Matt Giovanisci:But, yeah, shoot me an email, matt@moneylab.co, if you have any questions.
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