How to Create a Podcast for Beginners (2022) | Think Media

all right we're going to look at how to create a podcast for beginners parenthesis 2022 and this is from think media who is a giant um YouTube kind of education website so I wanted to see what they had to say about creating a podcast and uh let's Dive Right In start or create a new podcast this year then you found the perfect video because whether you're looking to start a podcast all by yourself and you just want to go solo or maybe you're looking into doing an interview style format for your podcast in this video you'll learn five of my easiest tips for getting started for beginners when it comes to starting a podcast with step number one being deciding what mic or

audio Source you will be using now I love the Samson q2u this is a dynamic microphone meaning it's going to give you that rich cool awesome choice right off the bat they uh don't cost a ton and they work great and I think I have one laying behind me right here so good start radio sounding podcast sound and you know you probably are like whoa that sounds really cool Omar your voice sounds like you're on a radio show or something that's what I'm saying you want a dynamic mic and what's cool about this mic is it's literally just $6 and it comes with everything you need whether you're going to actually capture on a computer or your smartphone you can plug it straight into it because of the USB or you can even plug it into a mixer board or a audio recorder if you want to use the XLR which is really nice and then it also has a headphone out so you can plug in some headphones and monitor your audio which is really nice but the key is to potentially get a dynamic microphone but you know having this type of audio Dynamic using a dynamic mic really will make your listeners more attentive to what it is you're saying because so much outside noise is being cut out by this type of style of mic it is important to note that this type of mic needs to be in the shot unlike this one that I'm using for this video where it's actually boomed out of the shot so it's just capturing my audio from around it that's a condenser mic but I believe if you're going to start a podcast think about your audio source and potentially going with a dynamic mic and we'll post our best links down in the description below so be sure to check those out you yeah what's really nice about the uh Samsung QT and also the ATR 2100 X I think is the newest one is that they're both USB and XLR so you can plug them right into the computer and start recording or if you um need to connect more than one person or maybe you just want to upgrade down the line you can get a mixer or a like a roadter pro that I'm using something like that and um add that in down the line you don't have to spend a bunch UPF front and the flexibility with those microphones are really nice hey what's up it's Omar Al Cory with think media and this channel is all about helping you grow your audience online and so whether that's through online video and YouTube and even podcasting uh we share the best tips and tools on how to accomplish that so sometimes we'll do camera reviews sometimes we'll do tutorials as well as share strategies on how to grow your audience online so be sure to subscribe if that's something you're interested I agree think media is an awesome resource and they have grown tons it used to be just uh I think just the main guy and now they have a whole bunch of people teaching stuff and just yeah go ahead check out their Channel And subscribe for sure in but with that being said the second step is to choose something to record your audio now when

it comes to recording audio for your podcast you can go two different ways you can go Hardware or you can go software now if you go Hardware that would be something like a zoom recorder where you would plug in your mic into a external device and then you would record your audio on that and then transfer it into a software now what's so cool about podcasting because it is just capturing audio is that you could totally capture your audio using software and that leads me to talk about the sponsor of this video which is podcastle now there are a ton of different options that you can uh so been teaching podcasting for a long time and I have never heard of podcastle but let's see what they have to offer use to capture your audio however podcastle is awesome because it's an all-in-one solution to create professional podcasts podcastle has so many great features that you can use as a podcast podcaster and some Dimension are definitely text to speech where you can have ai read a script or something online for you and that's really cool because if you are doing a solo podcast you can literally have a different voice join you whether that's reading your intro or an ad script or something so right off the bat it kind of reminds me of a software called descript which has been really popular in the podcasting and video space and they have like a it's like a Google doc style editor for audio and I've used it to create transcripts too on the Fly and it's pretty cool but this uh it looks nice at least at first glance something like that another cool feature is magic dust and with a click of a button you can clean up your audio and remove any unwanted background noise which is super cool and I know a lot of people can use that feature but I would say probably the coolest thing about podcastle is the ability to interview up to nine people all you have to do to invite people onto your show is send them a link and then you can have a conversation and capture it using podcastle and what I love about the fact that it's web-based is that you're not going to lose your files anywhere you know your files can't get corrupted your guests don't have to send over files and it's going to record a high quality file of your guest which is super nice if you so that's interesting that they've kind of combined some of the popular software so remote recording is uh been around for a long time specifically for podcasting and there are uh some big companies squadcast Riverside uh iris is another one that I've um helped promote and they have been awesome and you can record what I think depending on the software eight nine people something like that um and it seems like this does that too plus has an editor so um I'd be interested to see to check this out use alternative Solutions often times you're compromised and limited by what software you're using I. E let's say Zo Zoom if you conduct a zoom call interview the yeah don't use zoom to record podcasts unless you're on a strict budget and for some reason you already have access to it I agree don't use zoom audio quality can get really trashed really quick and so podcast was really cool for so many different use cases and I would definitely think it's something you can look into if you're looking to start a podcast and we'll post a special link down in the description below for you to check them out now regardless of what software or solution you use to capture your podcast they essentially all look the same and that's why everything I'm teaching in this video will apply to whatever software you're using because most softwares use a track system and so you know depending on how many audio files you can see the layers of audio that you have based on the amount of files you have whether that be some music or maybe it is a guest or what have you you'll have a track for each source of audio but before you even get to recording audio you want to make sure that you select the mic you're going to use and so wherever you can select your audio settings and the input option just make sure that you select the mic that you want to use to capture your podcast audio step number three is to Now record

your podcast you know we actually have a podcast here at think media called the think media podcast and if you ever want to go deeper and how you can grow and scale a YouTube channel as a business then be sure to uh subscribe to that podcast wherever you listen or even on YouTube you can also subscribe to it and I'll post links to it down in the description below all that to say we always come ready with outlines and I think if you're doing a podcast to have an outline of sort is definitely helpful because it'll steer your podcast into a beginning middle and end I think often times this is a good tip I just would definitely stay away from scripting everything but if there's certain uh topics that you want to cover or maybe if you want to write out just your intro a little bit about your guest so that you have that kind of ready to go and you don't want to necessarily do that for memory so um having a few notes is good but just don't overdo it because it can definitely turn into a very robotic sounding show I've been invited to do podcasts and they've just been this like open-ended like no real time limit no real Direction on what value is being communicated and so don't waste your invited guest's Time by you know questions that or your listener time this another good point people kind of ramble on about random stuff especially uh right up front and you'll quickly lose listeners and they're most likely not going to come back so you want to get right to the point similar YouTube and podcasting you want to kind of just focus on the important stuff I mean different shows have different styles but try to cut out the fluff if you can good advice there that don't necessarily add value to your audience or the people you're trying to reach now I say all that just so that you are prepared to conduct your podcast but I do want to encourage you with the reality that your podcast does not have to be perfect there's actually Beauty in an imperfect podcast I think the reason why podcasts resonate with audiences so well is because you get the you know like the raw and the real and kind of just like the unedited version long form of somebody's style of content now even if or when there is a mistake you can totally edit it out later and that brings me to step number four which is to actually edit your podcast so I

would say the first thing you want to do is level the volume based off of who is on the podcast so you know maybe you talk at a higher energy and it's a little bit louder I think it's really important to have a good audio experience for your viewers to make sure those volumes are very similar you want to yeah this is pretty crucial if you ever been listening to a show and the host or the guest is a lot quieter and you have to turn the volume up but then the other person is really loud and then it's too loud and you have to go turn the volume down it can be really annoying to listen to so it is definitely important to make sure that all the audio levels are as close as possible between people and even for music tracks making sure those aren't super loud or if you have it kind of bedded underneath someone talking you want it to be pretty quiet so that it doesn't overpower what they're saying so this is a this an important tip and you might not you just might not think about it until you're listening to someone who didn't do it and it's really annoying I'm at the same level when it comes to listening you don't want somebody to have to turn up and down the car audio volume or even on their headphones or what have you so do what you can to levate the audio and because I'm using podcastle I'm just going to click on magic dust so that I can clean up the audio a bit if you're using another software or recorder or editing system some effects that might be helpful to you are things like noise reduction or deverb which will eliminate some Echo if you're you know somebody's echoey or what have you and then there's what is called an equalizer if you want to equalize your audio whether that's bringing in the low end or if you want to you know bring up the highs and things like that there's a lot of things that you can do yeah it's good advice but I would definitely stay away from uh messing with too much as a beginner yeah you know you want to keep things simple so EQ I'd probably stay away from if you have a good um you know decent microphone it should be fine some of those software based kind of Reverb control yeah they're hit or miss so I would do what you can to make your room acoustically beneficial I guess so making sure you have some sound absorption stuff just things in the room whatever it is to make sure that the audio isn't bouncing off the walls when editing audio but those are like I would say three main edits that you would want to look into making if you're using another software the next edit you can make is trim any fluff you may have like I mentioned earlier if you know maybe made a mistake you can simply cut and splice and then Ripple delete over that audio so it's like it never happened um or if there's just dead space and so just making basic cuts and slices and then eliminating any of that Dead Space will give your podcast a better notice he said Ripple delete which means that it's supposed to slide the right track over to the left but in this case uh didn't look like this software is able to do that or maybe it's a different feature or something so just a little point there if you're able to Ripple delete you should be able to just delete and it slides it over and it's kind of all one step and it actually saves a ton of time so um that would be a nice feature if they don't have it better Tempo the next edit is optional but I would encourage you to add some fade in music in the beginning and then Fade Out music at the end and I love that podcastle actually has audio tracks that are royaltyfree you can plug right into your podcast and fade it out and just a scenario I think is really cool that could be created with podcastle is legit having a text to speech intro where you have somebody from another country with a dope accent read off your uh intro and then put some Vib music and then you can come in after the intro and say welcome to the show I'm so pumped to have my boy Sean canel with me CEO of think media yada y conduct an interview but you can totally have fun with it now if you've gotten any value in this video yeah no that's a good point this used to be really popular have a kind of an intro bumper and an in produces the show maybe uh a little bit about you or about the show or something with music kind of embedded into it and there are some companies that will create those for you obviously you have to pay for them but something you can look into I'll uh I'll put a link to one in the description that I have recommended in the past but you don't definitely don't have to do that especially as a beginner you can go ahead and just say your intro find some royaltyfree music so use podcastle like they said or there's a ton of websites but just make sure you don't use um royalty like commercial music because they can get you in a lot of trouble so stick with the royaltyfree stuff video let me know by hitting that like button for me and question for you let me know down in the comments below what your podcast or what you're thinking about your podcast being about would love to know all the different topics uh and I would want to encourage you that podcasting is alive and well there's actually way less podcast creators than any other kind of Creator and so I want to encourage you to really go after it and start that podcast and just get started you know that's a good point so I think there's a couple million podcasts right now and for the longest time it was under a million and I'm sure YouTube channels I don't have the number on hand but I'm sure there's tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions of channels and there's a lot less competition in the podcasting space so uh it's always a good time to jump in and it's just going to keep growing but it's still tiny compared to some of these other channels know uh even if nobody listens to it let people not listen to your first few episodes so you can get those Kinks out of the way and so that when people really start coming in listening to your podcast that you can actually um you know deliver great valuable content but with that being said the fifth step after you've edited your podcast you can now export it and share it with the world and if you want to learn how to Syndicate your podcast meaning getting your podcast on Apple and Spotify and everywhere that people stream podcasts be sure you click or tap the screen to check out this video and you'll learn how to do that and so you can easily get your podcast out there and I hope the best for you as you start your podcast this year and that you're going to crush it all right so looks like that's about it for this video it says how to create a podcast for beginners and I feel like we got a little bait switch there we have to go watch another video which is a tactic for them to keep you on YouTube and keep you on their Channel which then makes it so it looks like you're you know you're really interested so I think you know I think that was good info but it seemed like it was really more of a you know sponsorship for the podcastle it looks like great software so nothing wrong with that but kind of want to know how to get it out there so maybe we'll watch this next video and take a look at what they have to say on where to put your podcast