Light editing I guess is all relative. It takes me about 4-6 hours to edit an episode. If we could go without verbal pauses, it would probably go way faster, but I try not to subject listeners to too many of those. I also take the time to eliminate the accidental talking over each other. That happens, and we are courteous about stepping to the side so the other host can speak, but I still take out the stutter starting that occurs there.
My mic is a Samson C01U USB microphone. It sounded much better when I first got it. I’m looking at some new microphones. I also have a travel mic from Shure that can record from my iPhone.
The most significant thing to worry about is the sound in the room. My room is a little rough, and I’m working on it. I have some sound foam that I need to put up on the walls. You can also get a thick blanket and hang that. All of that is just to stop sound waves from bouncing off of walls and interfering with each other. You can end up with an echo, or a “hollow” sound.
I know how to get good sound, and we are working to improve ours. I don’t want anyone to miss out on the great conversations as we are working through this. Thanks for listening.
