Comments on: Help! My Podcast File Is Too Big!

By: Twitted by asiriusgeek

Twitted by asiriusgeek — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:50:56 +0000

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By: Jenny Ryan

Jenny Ryan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:54:55 +0000

Thanks so much for the time breakdown. I haven’t yet started my podcast, and this will be such a big help in my planning.

By: steve weaver

steve weaver — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:23:36 +0000

Christy, YOU ROCK!! I’m an old fart trying to learn new tricks so this is mostly an attempt to learn things before they are needed. I don’t have a sample anywhere on-line since I have mainly been using audacity to make my own subliminal reprogramming recordings. The mic seems to work well enough and you answered my question better than I had hoped possible. I only hope that someday I’ll be able to direct some business your way. Thanks again.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:08:32 +0000

You’re welcome, Todd! And I’m sorry that I still owe you an email. I will respond, promise.

By: Todd Smith

Todd Smith — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:45 +0000

Wow!! That was such a thorough and valuable post on podcasting. You answered so many of my questions so simply! Thank you very much.

By: Christy

Christy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:36:42 +0000

Hi Steve! Thanks for commenting.

Let’s start with the mono issue. Audacity is clever enough to fix this for you. Just record your signal as mono. Get it edited as you want it to be. Then:

1. On the Project Menu, click “New Track”
2. Go back to the track that has your audio in it and select it.
3. Go to Edit -> Select -> All
4. While you have your track selected, go back to Edit -> Duplicate (this should create a new copy of the track you selected)
5. Go back to your original track and click the little drop down arrow next to the words Audio Track (top left of track frame) and click Make Stereo Track

Voila! You have a stereo recording from your mono track!

Now as to your headset mic …

The answer quite honestly is “it depends.” Yeah, I hate that answer too. But it is the truth in this case.

The quality of the microphone you use depends upon what you want to achieve, as well as what the level of quality you’re able to get right now out of the gear you have. Can you point me to a sample of your audio? I’d be happy to listen to it and give you my opinion.

Let me know if this helps.

By: steve weaver

steve weaver — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:56:28 +0000

I have audacity, but because I use a headset mic I bought for gaming, it comes up mono (Left side) instead of stereo. I don’t know how to create mP3 files with it but I figure that’s my fault for not playing around with it enough to learn that yet. Do you think I’ll need a better mic or might it be something else?