the first G'Day World podcast has some technical issues

Mick & I tried to record our first G'Day World podcast last night and it was pretty frustrating. We thought we had it sussed a couple of days ago when we each installed "Replay Telecorder", a little app which is supposed to record both sides of a Skype call (we live in different cities). Turns out though, when one of us hit "record", the other person would get terrible echo of their own voice and not be able to hear the recording party. After lots of mucking about and googling, we finally stumbled upon the idea of each of us recording our OWN voice using Audacity and then merging the two files later in post. It was about 11.30pm by the time we figured that out (90 minutes into the session). So we recorded for half an hour. That was the easy part. Then Mick compressed his recording as an 15 Mb mp3 (20 minutes), uploaded it to his server (20 minutes) and I then downloaded it (20 minutes). Then I merged the two files, that worked okay, and I added an intro and tail and re-compressed the whole thing as an mp3. Then I IM'd it to Mick using MSN Messenger. We called it a night after the IM transfer started (about 1.30am) and when I checked this morning the file seems to have transferred okay. Today Mick needs to RSS it and upload it. Whew. Lots of work for a 30 minutes podcast. There has to be an easier way!

Comments

[William Luu]

Hi Cameron, perhaps you should try what is mentioned in this post? http://www.podcasters.org/20

Though for $49US (for the Virtual Sound Card), you'd hope it works well!

[Cameron]

yeah thanks Will. Mick actually found that link last night as well, sounds pretty convoluted, but then again, so is what we did last night!

[Mick (SplaTT) Stanic]

Nearly ready... :)