How to Start a Podcast (Complete Tutorial) 🎤 Equipment & Software #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- Hi, my name is Pat Flynn and I'm here to help you

get your podcast up and running in no time at all.

It's exciting because a podcast has changed my life

in so many different ways, not just my business,

but also my personal life.

It's helped me make a better connection with my audience,

but more than that, it's helped open up so many new doors

and opportunities for me,

from speaking to writing books to selling courses

and all kind of other things, too,

so I'm excited that you're diving into podcasting, too.

Now, to start out with, in this video,

we're gonna talk about equipment and software

and all the things that you might need to get set up

and running on a budget.

I'm not gonna make you spend a bunch of money

on all these big random boxes which, yes, they are useful,

they will help, but actually,

you don't need that to get started.

I want to remove all the overwhelm and distractions for you

and just get you going right away.

Also, make sure you stick around to the end,

because I'm gonna give you exactly what you need

to figure out now the mandatory items for your podcast

that you need or else you can't move forward.

So, let's just dive right in

with the equipment that we need.

So, obviously, we're starting a podcast here

and people are going to be listening to your voice.

You want to make sure you have the right tool that

can help best send that voice over to that person's ear

when they're listening to your show.

You can have the best content in the world but

if it doesn't sound great,

people aren't going to be listening to you for that long.

Now, there's a wide range of microphones available to you

to help you produce your podcast and you can spend

anywhere between $20 for a cheapo mic

or even thousands of dollars for

your best-sounding broadcasting type microphone.

For your podcast, though, again,

I want to make things easy for you and

I want to make sure that you don't need

any of the other external boxes and all these cords that,

yes, professional broadcasters use but

we live in a time now where you don't need all that stuff,

still, to sound like a pro.

The microphone that I would recommend

that you start out with is this one right here,

which is the Audio-Technica ATR 2100 USB.

The price of this microphone is under $100, which is great.

It also comes with a stand, a USB cord,

and an XLR connection.

Now, the beauty of this microphone is that you don't need

this XLR cable and the mixers and all those other things

that a professional broadcaster might need.

All you need is a USB connection, which it comes with,

to your computer to help you sound great.

It also comes with a little mic stand,

which I would actually recommend replacing

with this next item.

Instead of using a stand,

I would recommend using one these boom arms for your mic.

This allows you to connect your microphone,

hook this down on your desk using this little clamp here.

This fits in and then you're able to bring

the microphone to your face, keep it off your desk,

and allows you just more flexibility.

Now, in addition to that, I would also recommend

what's called a shock mount.

Now, a shock mount, as you can see here,

allows the microphone to be suspended sort of in mid-air

and what this does is it allows for the vibrations

from your table and your computer and any other equipment,

perhaps you might bang on your microphone a little bit,

it allows the vibrations to be absorbed by

these little rubber bands here and

have the sound not in your mic.

Then, finally, the last thing you need is something

that helps you reduce the plosives.

What are plosives?

Plosives are your B-words and P-words that,

when you blow into the microphone with those letters,

it will create a popping sound and you do not want that

so you can use what's called a pop filer or

something like a wind screen to help

stop the plosives from happening.

Okay, so to recap those things one more time,

you have the microphone, the boom arm, the shock mount,

the wind screen or pop filter and then, of course,

you need to plug it in, a USB and if you need a dongle,

you can use a dongle, too and then finally,

the links to these products are below this video.

All right, so after you plug in,

make sure that you fire the mic on and

then go into your systems preferences into your computer

and find the sound and just make sure that

the ATR USB microphone or the mic that you plug in is

the one that's highlighted so that we know that

the sound from our voice is going

through the mic and into the computer.

Now that we're done hooking up our equipment,

we're going to dive into our editing software so that

we can record our voice, chop up those audio clips,

and also create what would be,

eventually, a podcast episode.

Now, to start, you're gonna watch me to a super-quick

and basic tutorial on GarageBand, which is for Mac users.

If you're on a PC, you can use Audacity,

which is also free, too.

All right, so I'm gonna keep this super short and sweet,

however, if you want a more detailed tutorial

about GarageBand or Audacity,

I have a tutorial for each of them, both below this video.

Okay, so really quick,

we're gonna open up an empty project here in GarageBand

and then, really quick, we just want to make sure that

the microphone that we have

selected is the one that we want.

So, as you can see here, Input 1,

it does say the ATR USB microphone, so we're clear there

and we are just recording using our microphone, so great.

We're gonna hit Create and you're gonna now see one track.

This is a single track and tracks work like layers.

If I had a second track, which I could add down here

if I wanted to by hitting that Plus symbol

and doing the same thing.

I can hit Create and now I can see two audio tracks.

Depending on the one that I'm highlighted

on is the one that's gonna be recording.

Now, why would you need separate tracks?

You would need separate tracks for different voices.

Perhaps one track is just for the interview

that you're recording or maybe you have some music

or voiceovers that you're just gonna drag

and drop into this.

Either way, it's nice to have it organized like that

and now just have it all live on one line.

Now, before we get going here, remember,

we are recording a podcast, not producing music,

which GarageBand is primarily built for,

so we're gonna change the settings here

from Bars And Beats to Time and to do that,

we just need to click on this drop-down menu here

and select Time.

As you can see, now we have an understanding of how long

we would have podcasted for and we can turn off

these other devices here, like the countdown

or the metronome and now we're all set to begin recording.

To record, all you have to do is hit the red button there

or R on your keyboard, like this.

Now, I'm recording an episode and as you can hear and see

as you're following along, you can see waveforms

depending on when I speak and how loud I speak, too.

Now, looking back here, we can see a playback.

We can actually drag this playhead all the way back

to the beginning and we can hit Play

and we can listen to exactly what we just said.

Now, I'm recording an episode and as you can hear and see

as you're following along, you can see waveforms

depending on when I speak and how loud I speak, too.

As you can see there, when I got a little bit louder,

the waveforms are much higher.

Now, just some really basic editing tips for you.

You want to make sure that when you're editing,

you get as precise as possible and, to do that,

you will need to zoom into those parts that you want to

delete, or change, or move around.

So, let's zoom in really quick.

You can do that a couple ways by dragging this slider

over if you wanted to or you can just use the pinch zoom

on your laptop if you have one of those as well.

What I want to do is get rid of that loud part.

Let's say I just didn't want that anymore.

So, I'm gonna find that loud part and I know because

of that waveform that typically would start right there

and if I were to play, you would hear that loud moment.

How loud.

But let's say I wanted to get rid of that

because it just didn't fit into my episode.

Maybe it was a mistake.

Sometimes, you might sneeze or cough during an episode.

There are gonna be moments when

you'll want to take something out.

To take something out, all you have to do is essentially

split this recording into two and then remove that part.

So, to do that, all you have to do, really simply,

is to move that playhead to where you want to

make that split, you go to Edit and

then hit Split Regions At Playhead.

The shortcut here is Command-T,

so I'm gonna do that right now and

you should see it split into two.

Now, if I want to get rid of this one,

I can just delete it and there, it's gone.

Now, let's say I didn't want to do that but

I actually wanted to insert something in the middle.

So, I'm actually going to undo my delete there.

I'm gonna slide this over and

now I'm gonna record something in the middle here,

just simply by pressing Record like this.

Hey, this is the recording in the middle.

Woo-hoo!

And now, I know there's a gap here so

I'm gonna move this over just a little bit and

now I'm gonna play all of it,

starting from before that gap and then after.

Depending on when I speak and hey,

this is the recording in the middle.

Woo-hoo!

How loud I speak, too.

Now, before moving on, one more really important tip.

When you are recording audio,

the last thing you want to do is

record audio that's too loud.

The technical term for this is getting

too hot with your mic,

meaning that it is so loud that when a person listens to it

on the other end, it sounds distorted.

The way that you can check to see if your audio is too loud

is either by looking at these waveforms.

If these waveforms extend beyond the sides of

this track here, then it is too loud.

Or, as you're recording, you're able to see this green bar

move into the yellow.

Yellow is okay but if it gets ever to the red,

then that means that you are probably too loud.

I'm gonna hit Record here and do a little clicking noise

that I know will fire off a red mark here and

you'll see exactly what happens and also

what it looks like on the waveform, too.

Like this.

(clicking tongue)

You see how it bumped up to the red there?

Now, look at this mark here.

It goes from all the way to the top to the bottom.

That is too loud and it will never, ever be processed away,

even with as much editing as you wanted to do,

in a way that sounds great for

the user listening to your podcast.

So, the best practice is to play around with

the audio volume before you record so that

it gets as high as it can be without

firing off to the red at your natural sounding voice.

Finally, I want to share with you how easy it is

to import audio files from elsewhere

into this podcast episode, for example,

voiceover work or, perhaps, some music.

All you have to do is download that music and

if it's music, make sure it's royalty-free.

I'm going to drag and drop that file

into this second track here.

There you see the waveforms pop up and

if I drag this over to the beginning, now,

when I hit Play here,

you're probably gonna hear the music at first

and then my voice come in.

However, I can already tell that

the music's gonna be too loud.

I'll show you how to solve that in just a minute

but let me hit Play and see what happens.

(upbeat jazzy music drowning out prerecorded voice)

You can barely hear my voice.

So, what do we need to do?

We need to adjust the levels both of ourselves and

the audio file here from the music.

So, to do the music, really quick, quite simply,

you just have to turn the volume down

for all of them if you wanted to do that.

In the more technical tutorial that I share with you,

I show you how to fade out and do things like that.

But, this one, let's just turn this down maybe 15 decibels

and play with that.

A lot of what this is, is just experimentation,

because you can always change things and keep going through

to make sure it gets better and better, so let's hit Play

and see what happens now.

(upbeat jazzy music)

And now, I'm recording an episode and

as you can hear and see as you are following along,

you can see waveforms depending--

It's getting a little bit better.

Let's turn it down even more.

And now, I'm recording and episode and as you can hear

(upbeat jazzy music)

and see as you are following along,

you can see waveforms depending on when I speak--

Sounds a little bit better.

Now, we can obviously, continue on and make this perfect

but we don't need to do that right now.

What we need to do is continue talking about

the rest of this tutorial so we can get you set up.

All right, so now, you understand about

your podcasting equipment and your podcasting software.

You can go ahead and get set up with those now.

You can place your orders so you can have time for

those things to come in but really quickly,

I need to share with you some important things that

you have to nail down before you can

actually get your podcast published.

All right, three things.

Number one, you need to pick a podcast name or show title.

Now, a lot of people ask me questions about this, such as:

"Pat, can I use my name as the podcast,

"like The Tim Ferriss Show?"

Absolutely.

"Can I use the name of my brand to create my podcast?"

Yes, like the Smart Passive Income Podcast.

"Can I do something that's not my brand name and

"not my name but it's just the name of the podcast itself?"

Yes, you can, just like Amy Porterfield's

The Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast.

You want to pick a name that works for you.

Now, of course, you could spend a year coming up

with the perfect name and my biggest advice to anybody

starting anything is that at some point,

you're gonna eventually have to just

pick something and move on.

Is it a permanent thing?

No, you can always change it later,

so that should help you out.

Next, you're gonna have to come up with

some sort of show description.

This is gonna be a summary and really,

your pitch for why people should be listening to your show.

This is what's gonna live on iTunes and other directories

and it's gonna be what people read to decide,

yes, I want to listen to this or no, this is not for me.

Also, keep in mind what keywords to

include in the show description.

Don't keyword stuff.

Don't make it sound unnatural.

Remember, human beings are reading this.

But, do include certain keywords that you know that

your audience is going to be, perhaps,

typing in because iTunes is also,

in addition to a podcasting directory, it's a search engine.

Then, finally, really important,

you're gonna need to create some sort of podcast artwork,

meaning a cover for your podcast.

This is what people see, actually,

before they listen to any of your show so

it's really important that you spend some time with this

and so go into the categories that you think

you're gonna be involved with.

Look at what's there.

See how you might be able to stand out from the crowd

and eventually, you'll need to create,

whether on your own or you hire somebody else to do it,

a 3000 by 3000 pixel square image that

has your podcast artwork, and perhaps your show name

and whatever other elements you want,

but don't put too much in there because, remember,

people are looking and finding

these podcasts on their phones,

so you want it to look great

at a small, scaled-down level, too.

All right, now there's a couple things you can do from here.

Obviously, you can watch the next video,

which is gonna walk you through a number of recording tips,

how to do interviews, exporting your podcast,

those kinds of things,

but I would highly recommend you also download

The Podcast Cheat Sheet.

It's a free guide I have for you.

It's gonna walk you through a lot of

the more finer details of the start of your podcast,

like how to actually make sure your show

stands out from the crowd,

how to plan your first few episodes, that kind of thing.

The link for The Podcast Cheat Sheet will be

below this video on YouTube here so open up the description.

You'll see The Podcast Cheat Sheet right there.

Click through.

You'll get access to it right away and

it will help you through a lot of these beginning stages,

especially here for the first video

here in this mini-course.

So, awesome job.

Keep up the good work and I'll see you in the next video.

Or, if you have dongle, that's needed, you can put those--

(laughing)

(electronic beeping)

Use ...

Darn it!

(electronic beeping)

Just--

No, we can do it better.

We can do it perfect.

Okay, one more time.

(electronic beeping)

USB and if you need a dongle, you can use a dongle, too.

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