skinnyCorp has been pumping out podcasts for the last couple months and have been getting a little bit of feedback and press. I figured since we are still learning the ropes, making mistakes and building out our studio – it was time that we let yall know how we go about making our podcasts.

As with most things, skinnyCorp does podcasting a little bit differently than maybe another group or person would do podcasting. We may have gotten some things out of order. The first thing we did was get a bunch of equipment, then we built a studio, and then we started to think intelligently about our podcast design and structure.

I will be breaking this up into three parts. Equipment, Studio and then podcast structure and design.

Part 1: The equipment.

Over the past couple months, Charlie and myself have been cobbling together a small easy to set up recording equipment to make podcasting as easy and robust as possible. We started using Apple's GarageBand software, a M-Audio USB interface, a couple of real mics and an Apple iBook. We choose the iBook on the basis of the strengths we saw in GarageBand and the ease we thought it would be to create podcasts. I had a t-amp laying around to use for amplification and Jeffrey had some ghetto studio monitors that we ended up using. Combining all this we were able to get started.

We used this for a minute and started to realize that we needed to tweak the hell out of GarageBand to support the number of tracks we needed and a podcast longer than 30 minutes. We also had a real annoying problem of our vocals being in different stereo channels – so it was vertigo inducing to listen to 30 minutes of us screwing around. We also started to realize how limited we are by having the hardware limit of two mics. We were starting to interview bands, make theme songs and we generally needed the ability to support much larger groups.

We also realized, while trying to get an interview with Richard Dean Anderson, that we didn't have a way to do phone interviews. We could hack some really poor analog to rca jacks or something – but Charlie and i had plans, and we knew that would only stifle our productivity.

So, To satisfy our shortcomings and fulfill our acquired needs we decided to do a bit of a equipment upgrade. We grabbed a Mackie mixer, a IAX phone interface and a telephone to audio interface. These additions allowed us to add a couple more mics, a diverse number of inputs, conduct phone interviews using our asterisk pbx and solved a lot of the problems we had using the M-audio and its left/right two channel inputs.

So as it stands now we have the mics and telephone interface plugged into the mixer. We are able to have a couple people in the studio getting interviewed, and a guest from the phone all being recorded into the mixer. All levels and channel mixing is done on the Mackie mixer. We then take the output from the mixer directly into the left/right input of the M-Audio USB interface. All of the post recording production then happens on the laptop. We add compression and fuzz with the EQ. Charlie is able to add music, patch up interviews and all that a bit easier when he isn't relying on GarageBand to act as a mixer. The multitrack nature of GarageBand allows us to do some dope authoring and makes our mistakes abit easier to fix.

The phone interface was a whole nother ball game. We are using the opensource asterisk pbx to run our office phones. This means that we completely ditched our analog phone line. It gives a lot of freedom to do cool things like have a dozen phone numbers, call long distance for free and really helps with our customer service number. Where it becomes tricky is finding a telephone to audio interface that supports sip or iax without breaking the bank. I gave up on that quest and purchased a IAX FxS and a JK Audio Broadcast Host Desktop Digital Hybrid. This allows us to interface the telephone to audio device with out ethernet based pbx. We then plug the telephone directly into the board and the caller gets their own channel and we can control what mics, and music the caller then hears. We are now telephone interview and prank call machines.

So far it has worked well. Be sure and check out our podcasts here.

So with all this equipment you would think we would be set. hah. Well. We are still tweaking and trying to find the best configuration and setup. A lot of the setup goes into the studio and the structure of your actual podcast. So check back tomorrow to see how we jump those hurdles.

Very impressive, shame you havent gone and got a broadcasting liscense, dont worry your doing it online so you dont need it but if you were ever to get the proper equpiment then you could do well.

Personally I'd stay away from imacs, there programs are ok for messing around but honnestly you'd be better off investing in more proffessional equipment, it'll give you alot more to do and if you were to ever higher someone they'd be more likely to be trained on it (though the industry moves mega fast, always changing the programs). I've really only got a bit of experience in tv and but the editing programs they use switches back and forth, they spend so much money on the best editing programs its unbelievable.

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