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So this is neat. I disagree with a good bit of it, though: - I wouldn't go with a Yeti (which, despite all the idiotic memes around it, is fine for a starting

So this is neat. I disagree with a good bit of it, though: - I wouldn't go with a Yeti (which, despite all the idiotic memes around it, is fine for a starting microphone). A condenser mic is generally going to be more touchy and more susceptible to room noise issues, which you'd probably rather avoid. Instead I'd go with something like the AT2005USB[1]; its DAC is fine and it provides an XLR output as well (and you can use both, which I do for some tasks such as voice comms in games plus routing audio to my mixer). Knox also makes a good knockoff[2] with similar characteristics. - Audition is a good call, especially at $20/month, but IMO (and this is all totally subjective, don't take my word for it) Logic Pro X is my jam. However, these days, live-shows-to-podcast seem to really taking off, particularly on Twitch; to that end, you're probably going to be mixing in either OBS/Xsplit/vMix (eww) or mixing in your audio app and routing to the video compositor, so be ready for that. - Zencaster, Skype Call Recording, etc. are all fine, but they all have one really big drawback: they're most useful for offline shows. The work required for Skype/VOIP guests in online shows, unless you're happy letting Skype mix the voices for you (and you shouldn't), is nontrivial. I'd try very, very hard to stick with in-person podcasts with local people until you can really hack it, because VOIP'd casts are noticeable and often have a big hit to both flow and to audio quality. [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT2005USB-Cardioid-Dynamic-Microphone/dp/B007JX8O0Y https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT2005USB-Cardioid-Dyn... [2] - https://www.amazon.com/Knox-Gear-Cardioid-USB-Microphone/dp/B012BAX738 https://www.amazon.com/Knox-Gear-Cardioid-USB-Microphone/dp/...

zbuf 9y ago
I run a system called Cleanfeed, which is VOIP designed for live radio broadcasts. Sounds like it might be a good fit for your needs: http://cleanfeed.net/ http://cleanfeed.net/ It handles all the audio routing for 3-way (or more), and recording too if you want it. VOIP interviews can be unnoticable -- in practice you have probably heard remote interviews on the radio done with systems like this, and may not have even realised it.
- eropple 9y ago
  The problems with remote casts are not just audio ones, but yes, you can do good point-to-point audio. Very few people do. I've looked at Cleanfeed and it looks like a really cool beta product, but it doesn't feel like the product appreciates how existing audio stacks and production flows work. And that's not entirely Cleanfeed's fault, because there are browser limitations, but at the same time the browser is not a good audio production platform (only Chrome seems to recognize the existence of multi-track audio devices, and that seems to be more of a "here's a 5.1 surround sound system") and that's a problem too. Like: I run a US-16x08 locally. It has eight mikes and eight line-ins. Cleanfeed (and this is probably Chrome) gets confused and says there's no microphone unless I go into Chrome's settings and force-pick the US-16x08, and then it just gives you mic one? It's mixing down the remote, too, so I just get back a single audio stream. This isn't acceptable; I 100% need to feed this into my mixer, not just splat out the audio. If I just wanted to mix down, Discord provides acceptable-not-great audio quality (and it appears there's probably a way, if one is a wizard, to rip audio streams out of it separately and push them through something like Soundflower). If Cleanfeed was a local server that connected to you guys and had VSTs I could drop on instrument tracks in Logic to get individual voices out, I would pay you nontrivial money for that. Also, video is pretty important. If Cleanfeed supported video at a size/quality that I could cap it out of a browser window I'd probably pay for it despite having to rework everything else; that would be a killer-app feature to compete with vMix Call. Feel free to ping me offline if you'd like to chat--my email is in my profile. I think Cleanfeed has potential and I'd be happy to talk about this more in-depth.

zbuf 9y ago

I run a system called Cleanfeed, which is VOIP designed for live radio broadcasts. Sounds like it might be a good fit for your needs: http://cleanfeed.net/ http://cleanfeed.net/ It handles all the audio routing for 3-way (or more), and recording too if you want it. VOIP interviews can be unnoticable -- in practice you have probably heard remote interviews on the radio done with systems like this, and may not have even realised it.

eropple 9y ago
The problems with remote casts are not just audio ones, but yes, you can do good point-to-point audio. Very few people do. I've looked at Cleanfeed and it looks like a really cool beta product, but it doesn't feel like the product appreciates how existing audio stacks and production flows work. And that's not entirely Cleanfeed's fault, because there are browser limitations, but at the same time the browser is not a good audio production platform (only Chrome seems to recognize the existence of multi-track audio devices, and that seems to be more of a "here's a 5.1 surround sound system") and that's a problem too. Like: I run a US-16x08 locally. It has eight mikes and eight line-ins. Cleanfeed (and this is probably Chrome) gets confused and says there's no microphone unless I go into Chrome's settings and force-pick the US-16x08, and then it just gives you mic one? It's mixing down the remote, too, so I just get back a single audio stream. This isn't acceptable; I 100% need to feed this into my mixer, not just splat out the audio. If I just wanted to mix down, Discord provides acceptable-not-great audio quality (and it appears there's probably a way, if one is a wizard, to rip audio streams out of it separately and push them through something like Soundflower). If Cleanfeed was a local server that connected to you guys and had VSTs I could drop on instrument tracks in Logic to get individual voices out, I would pay you nontrivial money for that. Also, video is pretty important. If Cleanfeed supported video at a size/quality that I could cap it out of a browser window I'd probably pay for it despite having to rework everything else; that would be a killer-app feature to compete with vMix Call. Feel free to ping me offline if you'd like to chat--my email is in my profile. I think Cleanfeed has potential and I'd be happy to talk about this more in-depth.