![]() ![]() The Blue Microphones $50 USB Snowball mic is great, and so is the Samson Q2U, which is just under $60. If you're on a low budget, pick up two USB mics (of different manufacturers) to go directly into your computer, or get one and have your guest sit very close to you, so that you are sharing the mic. Those will take multiple people to be involved in the production, more elaborate gear, access to tape libraries, legal clearances and the like. If you're feeling more ambitious and want to do a news/documentary series, a live talk show with multiple guests or a historical look back at the history of music, you're reading the wrong article. Most first podcasts are interview programs because talking into the microphone by yourself for hours on end just isn't something most of us can do. Spotify, in honor of Podcast day, announced that it will not let you combine music and podcasts to playlists. Additionally, Anchor has tools to use on its premade templates.Īfter uploading the art and audio file, I wrote a headline and description and found, to my surprise, that the show was available on Anchor and Spotify instantly. First, I titled the podcast "The Jefferson Graham Interview" (I already do USA TODAY's Talking Tech podcast) and created a 600-by-600 pixel image in Photoshop to use as cover art.įor those without access to Photoshop, free programs like GIMP and Pixlr Editor can also be used. The entire process took just a few minutes. "So their distribution is more limited then with Libsyn.")Īs a really quick test, I pulled a quick audio interview with my mom, posted it to Anchor and, within a few days, had the podcast on Spotify, Breaker, Google, RadioPublic and Breaker. (Rob Welch, the vice-president of podcaster relations at Libsyn, points out that Anchor will not get your show to other outlets like iHeartRadio, , Deezer and Pandora. ![]() And like Libsyn, Art19 and other distributors, it will take your podcast and push it out to other platforms, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Stitcher. Libsyn says the average one-hour show works out to 30 MB, so you'd be able to post one episode per month under this plan.Īnchor is free. Libsyn, for instance, charges $5 monthly and allows 50 megabytes of storage, which is the amount of new content you can upload each calendar month. ![]()
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