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Podcasting 1: Kungfuology special

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Podcasting. Like a radio show but saved onto a computer audio file so you can listen to it at your leisure and on a variety of devices.

Me and Jake Newby have made two six-episode series of podcasts relating to our music scene blogs here at Kungfuology.com. You can hear them for yourselves right here:


So, today we decided to throw out an Expo special to keep things ticking.

First the theory behind our pods. I like the Guardian Unlimited Football Weekly Podcast. I really really like it. I used it as a model for ours in many ways. Here are some key points:

It's about a single specific topic (football).
It talks about current events: what's just happened and what's coming up.
It is 45 minutes long.
It is all talking, nice and clear with no backing track or silly noises.

We record it in my house and the room is not sound proofed or sound dampened in any way. So, if you are not right up to the mic, there will be horrible echo and a tinny sound to the whole thing. Our weapon of chance (we borrow it) is the Zoom H2 Handy Recorder.

This looks like an electric shaver and can do single direction, two-channel (front/back) or surround. I have heard pods done with this using surround with many people sitting around the room - but they sound like a*s because of the previously mentioned point. We use the two channel setting and attach the mini stand. Then it goes on a stool and we sit either side of it about 30cm (a ruler) away. 

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