As a young journalist with next to no interest in sport of any kind; my Monday morning chore was to call about 10 schools and colleges to get the weekend’s sporting results. From soccer, to hockey, and athletics, I’d have to get the names of the teams, any star players (and their ages), location of […]

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A lot is written about podcast production, gear, software, editing and distribution, but from what I can see there’s very little said about the all-important microphone technique. In other words, the way you actually speak into a microphone.

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Welcome back to Podcasting Made Easy, the show where I attempt to easy your path into podcasting.  Now, this episode is especially for podcasters asking one of the most common questions I hear – where do I find people to interview. Okay, where do we find these people? Well, it’s not as hard as you might […]

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Video podcasting is becoming more popular. But what does it take to put yourself on the small screen? Well, not much...

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Hello and welcome to this edition of Podcasting Made Easy, my name is Steve Hart. In this podcast I want to chat about the benefits to you of being a podcaster, and they have nothing to do with audience numbers, downloads, or income. Now, if you’re finding yourself shortchanged when it comes to fast money […]

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How many downloads does each episode of your podcast get? Twenty? Fifty? Two hundred? If you’re consistently seeing numbers north of 300, you’re doing extremely well – better than most, in fact. To put that into perspective, data from podcast host Libsyn suggests that if an episode receives more than 124 downloads within its first […]

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I was reading some Facebook groups about the Rodecaster mixer and someone who had got a new mixer was really illustrating they didn’t understand why everything sounded so awful when they recorded their voice. And reading between the lines, I could see, well, they’ve probably gone into the processing section and not really knowing what […]

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A chance visit to a rural second-hand store in Victoria set me on a surprising trail...

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Australian jazz musician Gene Shelby is no stranger to the international jazz scene. He spent the 1990s and early 2000s signed with Warner Chappel, performing across LA, promoting his original music and working with world-renowned producer Mark S. Berry. He plays piano, guitar, bass, and sings. In this interview Gene talks about his career, studying […]

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Fernanda has travelled back in time and is sitting in a hotel room waiting for instructions.

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