Today we are going meta, breaking the fourth wall and talking about our podcast setup. It’s been a long journey to get the proper setup we have now. We wanted to discuss all of the equipment we currently use, the reasons for choosing this equipment and the mistakes we made along the way.
Transcript
hello and welcome to the decking awesome
podcast my name is brian and i’m joined
by the awesome owning cura hello
hey today we’re going a bit meta and
we’re breaking the fourth wall
we’re going gonna talk to you a bit
about our podcast setup
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we’ve had a few practice runs and a bit
of change in tweaking equipment
but we’ll give you a rundown of the
stuff we’re using currently
and a few of the things we tried out
along the way so
if you’re ever interested in getting
started with your own podcast hopefully
this is a bit of a help and a bit of a
pointer for you
let’s take a rundown over some of the
equipment we’re currently using why
don’t you guys tell me about it
when you’re starting your own podcast it
can get a little bit confusing and
frustrating when you see all the
different information out there all sort
of different microphones and recorders
and all sorts of stuff but we’ve come to
a very clean and kind of
concise setup at the moment we’re using
condenser microphones
and which we’ll go into a little bit
more later and they’re all attached to a
single
preamp recorder one condenser mic for
every person so we can just
keep on attaching more and more
condenser mics depending on who
is talking or in the podcast this gives
great quality
it makes editing the audio easy and the
setup is kind of a breeze
pretty straightforward we’re doing this
in a different house than we usually do
and it was really easy to set it up took
like 10 minutes yeah cool so
if you are hearing background animals
apologies there are
four of them roaming around that we’re
praying we’ll be quiet but
that’s never the way it goes so
what did all of that just mean
well i guess myself and i owned a lot of
research into what
equipment we could use and it turns out
you can use
hundreds of different sets of equipment
even just for the microphones alone
we had a lot of different options unlike
usb microphones or
condensing or dynamic microphones
just a lot of different options that
were available and when we started out
we happened to have a sound board and a
microphone
there and i guess that’s where we kind
of started from but
like a lot of it is just trial and error
and then knowing what you want
like there’s more advanced setups i
guess than ours
but the reason we went for a nice simple
setup of like four separate microphones
using traditional microphone cables
plugging into
one simple system was because having
things like sound boards and stuff in
our setup
that’s a lot of skills like sound
engineers
put a lot of work into that sort of
thing so we wanted to find something
that was simple
and straightforward so i guess that’s
how we how we eventually led ourselves
to
to the setup that we had i think i think
originally we had everything kind of
connected to a computer
which made things a lot more manual and
we’ve kind of opted
to instead of using the computer and
like lots of different manual
kind of mechanical components we decided
to connect everything into one recorder
and let the recorder kind of handle
everything and so that kind of brings us
onto
what a condenser microphone is which is
the one thing that we’re kind of using
constantly there’s
loads of types of microphones which
we’ll probably get into later yeah
that’s secure i mentioned their dynamic
and condenser microphones
forgive my ignorance but you know i know
very little about any of them only for
what i’ve googled this morning
you guys are the tech heads here so tell
us a bit about the microphones
yeah so there’s a whole bunch of
different types of microphones there’s
the two main ones are dynamic and
condenser
but you can get a whole lot of different
ones in between like shotgun
and you know stereo microphones we can
kind of just explain what we have at the
moment we’re using
a newer nw800 unpowered
condenser mics and so you can kind of
google that on amazon and
check it out and see the reason that
they’re unpowered which is
and why that’s a good thing is because
they’re much cheaper if you find a
powered one
that means it has all the components in
it and it usually has like you know ways
of
audio filtering and stuff like we didn’t
want to do any of that we wanted to have
a bare bones
microphone that was perfect for audio of
vocal range uh condenser mic is really
good for that
i couldn’t get give you the technical
details as to what difference
dynamic and a condenser one is but i
know for podcasting and for being quite
close
condenser mics are just really good at
picking up that range and then allowing
editing
to be much easier nice so you’d
recommend kind of searching for
condenser mics if if that’s what you’re
unveiling down the road unpowered
phantom power is what i’ve written down
here in my notes
but i think that just means it’s powered
by the whatever it’s plugged into
the phantoms
yeah so when we originally started
looking up microphones
we did find power supplies that you can
add in to the
set that you use where you power the
microphone separate to the device that’s
recording
and i think we had to try that out
because we wanted to plug the
microphones directly into a pc
but that meant that you needed to add a
power supply in so that the
microphones could plug in they could be
real microphones
and plug into a pc but that just added
loads of complications to our setup
so like we then had to plug every
microphone in separately and they
weren’t really
independent and it added a lot of hassle
so i guess that led to us needing
something that provided a power supply
so like sound boards and and this the
recorder we use
they both can provide power supplies
because of the microphone we chose
that led to a string of decisions being
kind of made for us
so it became too complicated to power
each microphone separately so we wanted
to just
find a simple way to do it which meant
one device at the end
powering all three microphones if we’re
going to use separate microphones so
i should say as well this isn’t a paid
sponsorship
or anything these are the the equipment
we’re using
that we found we liked if anyone does
want to sponsor us feel free to
send us out some mics but this one
currently isn’t sponsored
so what about these pop filters we have
in front of the microphone what’s the
advantage to them
yeah we only really use uh two
additional things to the condenser mics
which is a
scissors arm and which is what the
condenser mic is attached to and that
allows us to kind of move it around
it gives a nice few different positions
at the moment they’re kind of just below
eye level so everyone can see each other
it allows for kind of a nice easy
conversation the pop filter
pretty much stands in front of the
condenser mic and it stops all those s’s
and those kind of harsh snapping sounds
now it doesn’t completely get rid of
them
but it’ll dramatically reduce that and
makes editing just a little bit easier
and then we also have xlr cables
connecting the condenser mic to the
recorder
so yeah originally we had one condenser
mic and that was
plugged into a recorder which was then
plugged into a laptop
and that meant we could power that one
condenser mic
using that mixer i think if you’re a
podcaster and you’re starting to start
off yourself
and say you’re you’re a youtube streamer
or you’re a podcaster alone
and you only need one condenser mic
there are packages where all of this
is just in one you don’t have to get a
swinging arm you don’t get a pop thing
you don’t have to worry about any of
this stuff
the most popular one at the moment is
called the yeti the blue yeti
that’s really handy which a lot of
people are confused because they look at
it and it’s really
a lot more expensive than any other
condenser mic that’s because it’s
powered
it has all these audio filtering it has
recording all of this it’s like a little
tiny computer
would attach to a condenser mic whereas
we just wanted the
freedom and flexibility to plug anything
we want into this recorder whether it’s
condenser mic a shotgun mic
anything and then it would deal with it
and especially when you’re starting out
it’s really overwhelming to look at all
the audio equipment there is
like people who’ve been in the
podcasting area for a long time
might know the difference between the
different like bits and pieces and the
best way to get the best audio
but like keeping it simple at the start
if there is only one person
think about getting a component that
gets everything in one box and then
outputs it into like usb because we
still have
an additional process then to just
transfer our audio files from the
recorder
to a computer but like maybe you just
wanted it to go straight to the computer
with
no extra hassle if you are setting your
own podcast it can get a little bit
tricky because
if you look at things like news
broadcasting you know you have people
with a microphone there usually that’s
like a shotgun mic
and the shotgun mic kind of does it
almost like a cylinder of recording
so it stops outside of that cylinder you
can’t hear anything so it’s great for
certain
use cases almost directional it’s just
recording just down one
down the barrel of a shotgun huh yeah
makes sense now yeah and then you double
you can point it at people and you’re
far away
and it doesn’t get outside noises that’s
not really
needed in a podcasting space especially
for like vocals where people are
podcasting
right now if you’re faced in front of a
microphone or like you have a guest
who’s not really sure what microphones
are
you want to go for a condenser mic
because it picks up much greater range
and it doesn’t pick up a whole lot of
background noise it’s a lot more
flexible
and you’ll enjoy it a lot more if you
get a shotgun mic
and it doesn’t suit your needs but
you’re not really sure you could that
could be a whole lot of wasted money
on that microphone so we talked there
about how the microphones like the yeti
might be a bit more expensive than kind
of the
the newer ones that we’re using what
kind of prices are we looking at
or comparatively is there a lot in it or
is this it’s about 25 euro for a
condenser mic
and then you can pick up the pop filter
and the swing arm and the cables
which i’ll get around maybe 40 euro
something like that
yeah i can get a little bit more but
that’s just for the very basic set
so we didn’t get anything fancy at all
in in the in the stuff
that we got but we still get like a an
audio sound that
we’re happy with yeah because these
condenser mics you’ll find a whole bunch
of them
and they’re all very similar you might
not know the difference there’s not a
whole lot of big difference and you can
really pick any
ones you want for a podcast anyway for
more professional stuff you might need
something slightly better yeah if you’re
going for a yeti it can cost about 125
euro 140
depends if you get a newer second hand
the only problem with the yeti
is if you have two people in the podcast
those things do not like to play
nice together so you can’t really plug
two of them in
together and get them to synchronize you
kind of have to edit that later on
to link them up together so whereas wire
podcast
all three of these mics are recording in
one device so when i hit the record
button
we don’t need to join them together
they’re just joined automatically oh
perfect so
if you’re sitting there kind of talking
to yourself or talking on a subject
the yeti is probably a good choice but
if you’re thinking about having people
on the show or there’s a couple you’re
doing it together
maybe a set of condenser mics plugged
into a recorder is the way to go
yeah but our recorder is the expensive
piece of the the equipment
that’s where most of the costs went so i
think we paid about
400 sterling for for the recorder piece
we might just explain the
extra pieces there that that we use so
the three microphones plug directly into
it
and it can record each microphone as a
separate audio file
we use a zoom h6 it’s a really good
quality
recorder so it can allow six inputs
which is more than we need but it also
came with things like a microphone that
has kind of two microphones crossed they
can kind of get rid of some white noise
that can be in the background that’s the
120 degree
stereo mic yeah so it allows you to kind
of you know visualize the space a little
bit better
it’s good for being on the move but yeah
the zoom handy six is really kind of
small and lightweight and portable which
yeah it has a whole bunch of new
features that are really cool
and we started off with just using that
120 degree mic
to record a few podcasts so some of the
earlier podcasts you might notice
we were all in the same room and it kind
of it it had more of a it got
a lot more background and
extra noise in however if you’re walking
around a convention or
you wanted to stream something live it
was much easier to
to carry it around and to get like a few
people around the table where you
wouldn’t need everyone to have a unique
mic
so it kind of gave us a lot of
versatility that we didn’t get from a
lot of the other
computer components that we were really
looking for so the zoom h6 is great for
sitting down setting up a podcast and
having the equipment
you know fixed at a table but also quite
portable you can take it out around the
conventions if you want to
chat to people you want to get a bit of
background noise for atmosphere and
you’ve kind of got multiple choices to
to play with on us
because yeah the biggest problem you’re
going to have if you’re recording a
podcast
for the first time is deciding what to
get at the start
and if you get a handy a zoom h6 handy
recorder
then it kind of guarantees that no
matter what you pick later on
or what kind of way you go with the
podcast you’ll be able to support it
so whether it’s a shotgun mic or a
stereo 120 degrees
or you’re plugging in lapel mics you
know those kind of like little small
mics
yeah yeah the attached people’s t-shirts
you just can do that as well so you can
have like a
like almost like a an interview style
microphone where the host has a lapel
mic and he’s pointing at other people
and then so you can do multiple things
connecting to this thing and it’s
battery powered so
you know this is you’re a walking
talking kind of podcast
and you don’t have to worry about like
multiple recording angles and stuff like
that an entire handheld recording studio
for those of you listening rather than
watching the podcast it is just slightly
larger and thicker than a
say a phone would be so it’s not even
that bulky or cumbersome to to bring
around with you
yeah and it does phantom power which is
the kind of thing we’re talking about
before of powering up the microphones
yeah it’s
it’s a really handy device the handy h6
which it’s in its name that’s pretty
good
it took a lot of the pressure off us
when we originally had an input mixer
that we had to figure out the audio
levels and there was a big learning
curve
for that sort of advanced equipment
which obviously is what the
professionals use
but for a podcast where you’re not
actually focusing
on audio and it’s not your profession
that’s not your core
bit that was just a bit overwhelming to
have to figure out
like levels and trying to reduce
background noise
and worrying about like how much you’re
gonna
increase the the sound or what you’re
feeding into it
and trying to balance all those channels
together because
you’d if you don’t have something that’s
recording at the same time
we were feeding in two microphones into
one sound board and then sending that
file off to a computer via usb so the
board had to do all the adjustments
and because we didn’t have the original
two
microphone files that came in we we
found it very difficult
to mix those things together yeah so we
originally had
a xenix 302 usb mixer
and this was you’d plug in your
condenser mic into this
into this little recorder this would
power the microphone
but you could only plug one thing in and
then you could you could put in the kind
of manual mixing of the different types
of
inputs lots of little dials like
hundreds of little dials
for only having one microphone one
condensing mic
in and then one just normal like a true
a little
2.5 millimeter jack input it had
i’d say about 20 things you can move
so if you want to sit there looking like
a dj over in a beta
while you’re just recording a podcast
yourself it’s the way to go
yeah but it is even worse than that
because you when you plug it into your
laptop
you’d end up having to record and do
editing on the laptop too so you’d have
like you know audacity or some sort of
laptop editing software
that you’d plug in and then you’d have
to control it that way whereas with the
zoom
this isn’t plugged into any laptop this
is just powered itself
using usb just into a wall socket and
then in here we can put in the filters
we want
we tend to not to put in any filters
just so that we can give
our editor who does the stuff much more
control of what to do
but you can also you can do voice
editing you can do anything and it’s a
much easier interface you don’t have to
mess around with things
it’s just it’s a much much nicer process
i guess it produces the
audio file and originally so own
did a lot of work with editing the the
audio file that the recorder produces so
are the three audio files that the
recorder produces he did a lot of work
on
chopping out its mistakes and balancing
the sound levels
do you want to talk more about what you
were doing at the start
at the start yeah we had one sound level
recording
that we would go through you had a
couple of different problems if you’ve
ever tried to edit something
before the sound files there’s a lot
that goes into it a lot of kind of
process there’s things called gain
control
which is a kind of a big problem that
comes into podcasting is people speaking
at different rates
different volumes coming up yeah when
you’re doing the podcast you want to be
quite an easy to listen to process and
so you want everything to be kind of
equalized
across the board and if you’re using
something like audacity which is a free
open source
program it can be quite difficult
there’s not a whole lot of filters the
ones that are done
they’re really great they’re community
made but they’re not professional and
they’re not like high quality
and if you’re like me you’ve never kind
of done sound editing before
so you have to kind of learn what all
these different things when it comes to
auto gain control
and how they can actually apply this
kind of things and then you also need to
know how to cut
audio for when people say the wrong
thing or an interruption happens to the
podcast
you should be able to call that and make
it sound like well thought out kind of
podcast and you know people say um as
well
so you need to get kind of there’s a lot
of editing that goes into it as well as
kind of putting in
maybe a music backtrack or an intro so
let’s say
all of that sounds way too complicated
and you’re not bothered doing it at all
or
downloading audacity and trying to learn
how to do it can you outsource it can
you just say
here look dump it off with someone else
and let them sort it out for us
yeah so we did maybe the first seven
eight podcasts ourselves and it just
became too much
and we found that a professional person
coming in here
would have done a lot better job and it
would be a much easier process and the
quality would have gone up
and because we knew we had kind of the
knowledge of how to do
sound editing we knew exactly what to
look for so we went down to upwork.ie
and we put in a job profile for sound
editing there’s some really great people
there
we found brandon shout out to brandon
who’s going to be editing this later on
yeah so he has the website podcast
editor.ie
so if you’re ever looking for a podcast
editor you might want to check him out
yeah brendan russell is really good he
just takes that
extra knowledge that as board game
developers we just don’t have
and so he can really smooth out the
audio much better then
then we’d have time to learn because as
you can imagine there is plenty for us
to be doing
in trying to design board games and
getting our next few more games ready
ready to go which is really what we’re
passionate about
and want to focus on so we just thought
it it made perfect sense
to get help from somebody who knows what
they’re doing you couldn’t recommend it
more the the qualities
jumped not not to slander own and his
editing skills but
as i said brandon just has that extra
skill level that we just don’t
yeah i think it’s great as well to have
the three different condenser
microphones being recorded
that adds a lot of ease to editing if
you are planning on editing yourself
definitely recommend having individual
tracks so that if someone
you know coughs or if someone does
something else you can cut that
track and it will make the whole process
a lot easier and it just gives you more
control over the audio itself
because if you have to if you have to do
gain control on parts of an audio
it can be really tricky it is possible
but if it’s three separate tracks you
can just apply it to one person
and then just cut it down which is great
i’m not looking at anybody in particular
he’s looking at me specifically because
he spent the first
seven podcasts giving out to me for how
loud i talk
one time just constantly about giving
out to me why do i laugh
in podcasts because wouldn’t it be
better when i showed up
and didn’t talk yeah i’ve never said
that i never said it you definitely get
about the laughing between kira’s
fluctuating voice and my ability to bang
and knock into every single thing at the
table around me
i feel i actually feel bad for you it’s
it’s easier with three separate
drugs everyone who wasn’t talking
pretty much yeah just like you did there
pressing the fake mute button
on the table yeah it also comes into
where if multiple people are talking at
the same time if you are
recording on one single microphone
you’re never going to be able to clean
that up
whereas if it was separate ones you can
do it so there’s lots of different kind
of things especially when people are
laughing and making jokes if everyone’s
laughing at the same time
that’s can be very difficult to manage
that
and just in case there’s any confusion
the three different mics are because
there are three of us
if there’s just one of you you don’t
need three microphones yeah i mean
unless you’re
really feeling like splashing out a bit
of cash just to see how it goes but
one microphone per person will probably
do so
what about like planning these podcasts
is it do you think it’s better to go
scripted unscripted
you know do you just go here’s the topic
we’ll wing it is it better to kind of
plan out what we’re going to say or
i think i think we’ve gone through a lot
of different phases in taking off some
podcasts
for how we actually kind of laid out
what we’re going to do
we always wanted to talk about board
game design stuff we
like know about so like maybe and d too
that’s become quite popular
so we’ve gone from like
very improv shows to all very scripted
shows
and i think somewhere in the middle is
kind of like the perfect spot
so what we like to do is we have a thing
called nucleano where we have drafts
of the podcast and the kind of topics we
want to discuss
and inside there we might flesh out some
ideas but we put some of the topics in
bold
and just say kind this is the point we
want to hit home on
or discuss and then we will just kind of
talk about it and see what people think
and it’s kind of make it like a free
flow conversation but yeah what do you
think
yeah i think that when we started out
the mistake that i made was
we we went from doing blog posts where i
could
vary from being like broad to quite
technical
and it seemed perfectly fine in written
form
because people could just skip over
those sections or you separated out by
headings or pictures
it was very easy to flow in and out of
very very technical
whereas when we took those blog posts
and just converted them straight into
into podcast episodes it didn’t really
work i struggled a lot with trying to
find
how to make it a conversation and but
then after
after we kind of found our voice a bit
better and found the
the style that we wanted where we we try
and have a conversation with some
interaction in it
we realized our own mostly put a lot of
effort into
changing it to be like a question answer
sort of format
that that brought out the conversation
much better than just
each of us having a topic to talk on
which was almost like
us reading out the paragraphs from our
blog posts
it just felt very wooden yeah it’s kind
of nice to have somewhere between
literally rehearsing a a gospel to to a
group of
people stuck listening on the other end
of a computer and
you know just kind of winging it and
talking the whole way through with
no real structure and wandering off the
point so i mean for us
it works well to have the question and
answer or the
bullet points or the points we’re just
trying to hit or you know if you’re
trying to remember the name
newer hg sx49
[Laughter]
we actually also have the script in
front of us while we’re talking so that
we can’t see anything that we might have
missed or
the names of all the things yeah i think
the adding in the topics
talking about the different kind of
questions and just seeing how the flow
goes makes a really nice
laid out podcast and we’ve gone through
a couple different ways of doing those
kind of scripts
obviously our current podcast format
does lend itself to become
very kind of flexible in the amount of
time it takes but we believe that like
you know if we
are talking about a topic where there’s
a lot of topics we care about
and we want to get through those topics
and some might be quite short and some
might be quite long
and so like so we were talking about
like cursor strad that can go on for
like an hour
just because there’s so many memories
but if we’re talking about something
technical we want to keep it interesting
we want to keep it condensed
so it’s it’s a mix there and it really
depends on the topic you’re talking
about and
how deep you want to go into it when we
have a shared experience
it is a lot easier like the christmas
strat
we all knew the topic
well having spent a year and a month
playing it
and it’s much easier to get a flow but
you can’t always rely on that
you can’t always expect that knowing a
topic and keeping
momentum in the conversation are both go
hand in hand
sometimes you need those prompts you
need something to kind of to bring you
back to the topic to keep you on track
even if it’s a normal conversation and
i’d say it’s 10 times harder
when you’re doing it yourself i think
both myself and owen did
try a bit ourselves to to do some sort
of
podcasts early on before we started out
with decking awesome games
and i definitely found that when you’re
just talking by yourself it can be
really hard and you might want to script
a bit more because there’s no one to
pull you back or there’s no one to kind
of
wrap up your point you have to remember
to do that so you really need to
have it a little more scripted than we
would when
with the three of us at least someone
remembers what the question was that was
asked
and can can wrap that up at the end of
it yeah if you have two members of the
group who’ve done
extensive research and purchasing into
all the best equipment to get and you
have a third guy who just shows up and
talks into the fluffy thing in front of
his face
put him asking the questions because you
know he can read a list of questions
it works it’s just about finding balance
it can be it can be quite tough on your
own because like if you have an actual
script
and you’re talking in a podcast it’s
hard to read the script while you’re
talking so
you really you know we have a great
setup here of three people
and we kind of mix around the host
because we all feel kind of comfortable
you know if we’re not comfortable on the
topic we can always be comfortable as
the host
and so that’s this is a fantastic kind
of setup we do suffer from
people putting on voices when they have
to ask questions though
it changes the sound of this yeah at the
moment the moment you’re thinking about
not putting on a voice you put on a
voice
but it’s radio you know
so what about what about getting your
podcasts out there you know you’ve
recorded them you’ve edited them you
think it’s as good as it’s going to
guess
where do you upload them how do you
upload them what’s the best way to
to go about it yeah i think that’s kind
of a pretty big topic we can definitely
do a future podcast on something as
large a topic as hosting your own
podcast online but like you know we’re
using wordpress to sum it up
but there is like lots of different kind
of choices we made along the way and
when we upload our podcast onto our
website on wordpress it gets
to all the different streaming sites
it’s a little easier than you might
think
so i always thought this whole thing was
really hard and you know like you’d have
to upload to apple
and have this whole thing it’s almost
it’s automatic you don’t have to worry
about it
but what we like to do is we’ll record
the podcast we’ll get it edited by
brendan
who will add some really cool like music
from daniel birch
and once that kind of editing process is
done it’s sent back to us
i’ll create little snippets of the audio
using headliner
now we i only did this for like the last
couple of podcasts but i really like
this and i think it adds
like like instead of watching the whole
podcast you can get a little snippet
am i interested in listening to this
podcast get a little
one minute clip yo a little bit of bait
to reel em in
yeah i think it works really well it
makes me want to listen to the podcast
as well
i’ll create the headliner podcast
and so that that would kind of bring
people in and once that’s done it gives
you a little bit of audio
make it less than a minute so that it
can be posted on like instagram facebook
all the different social media and then
you can also create like you know
youtube ones for that as well
then it’s social media and then just
posting it uploading it to your podcast
yeah make it sound so easy it was a very
long process
yeah because at the start we didn’t
upload to wordpress right we tried to
upload directly to
some of the streaming sites but it just
meant yeah i guess we had the space
available on the website
and there was a lot more complications
to having to
to upload to different places and wait
for stuff to
to get sorted or process and all those
sorts of things like
you have to kind of balance what you can
and can’t do maybe you just want to
upload it
to one place maybe you have access to
somewhere maybe you don’t there’s lots
of free services and paid for services
out there that can make that that a lot
easier but uh it kind of depends on what
you have available
like we were lucky enough to have space
on the wordpress site and
own new had a good idea of what he
wanted to get
for that to be available to everyone
yeah so a very popular one there’s not
many free
services that can allow you to do this
but there is one and it’s soundcloud
and soundcloud really popular obviously
and it allows you to upload i think it’s
like three or four
episodes and so if you do your fifth
episode you have to delete your first
which a lot of people don’t like
but it does give you a starting off
point and that’s what we did we posted
our first
three episodes on soundcloud and then we
were going to the point where we had to
decide
is this going to be something to invest
in and we really liked it so we
spent time we got our wordpress up and
got it connected in which
which isn’t a trivial task but if you’ve
messed around with wordpress before you
shouldn’t find it too difficult
i obviously haven’t i think we used the
blueberry plugin to get
to get a lot of the and but there’s
there’s some free plugins
as well but a lot of them you have there
there’s paid for services you’d have to
add on
so um if you don’t have the the
technology of
like willingness to go in and actually
manually update
all the bits and pieces and integrate
every single streaming service onto it
and it’s a lot of work but if you invest
in it you can do
a good few of things easily the good
news is that if you are listening to us
now then you already know how to at
least find one podcast so
congratulations you’re
on a roll yeah and none of us have apple
as well which doesn’t help for
trying to figure out how to integrate
with apple the apple play store or the
apple
ice store i actually don’t know what
it’s called i have it i have it’s itunes
um i have a mac yeah you’d be surprised
we can talk about it later but it’s
mostly just rss feeds
and connecting it in wordpress makes it
life easier our actual website wasn’t
wordpress when we had this thing
and we had to convert to wordpress not
just for podcasting but we actually had
a whole
thing of why we wanted to do that but
yeah podcasting
really kind of allowed us to talk about
topics in a much easier way
blogging was fun but um i don’t think it
was getting that kind of
topics that we want to discuss not going
to improv mixed with scripting
and then that kind of conversational
attitude to it this kind of setup works
really well
great um i suppose if there’s one thing
i can recommend more than anything else
it’s invest
thousands and thousands of euro into
soundproofing your entire house before
you even attempt podcasting
because sure that’ll work out you’re
gonna have to do something with your
animals as well
to the wall there’s also a and beer
brewing in the background
so you may notice this kind of a
gurgling an occasional girl
there’s a yeah so it does work better in
a slightly emptier house
that’s the condenser like it’s it’s too
versatile
good or too good that’s the question
cool well
that pretty much wraps it up on setting
up your own podcast hopefully
some of this has been useful to you guys
if you have any questions feel free to
reach out to us we’re on all social
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awesome games
this has been the decking awesome
podcast from me brian and kieran own
thank you very much
cheers see ya
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