Interviews, interviews, interviews. I don’t know the stats but I bet a vast majority of podcasts out there are interview-format shows. And it seems like a trouble-free solution for recording long-distance conversations – which is what most interviewers have to resort to – has not been created yet. But…
I think we’re getting closer to a great way to record interviews.
On this episode, I’m going to introduce you to a new friend, Mark Hills. He and his co-creator (also named Marc) hail from the UK and come from a radio industry background. In their minds, for live radio, connections simply have to work – and they’ve been working on an internet-based solution for both broadcasting high-quality audio from remote locations, AND recording it.
Here’s where this radio industry solution becomes of GREAT interest to us podcasters.
I invite you to join Mark and me as we chat about the tool they’ve created – Cleanfeed. It’s still in beta but looks very promising.
But more important than hearing our banter – which gets into the details of how Cleanfeed works to record high-quality audio – you need to actually HEAR this episode because we recorded it using Cleanfeed.
Mark was using a laptop with an XLR microphone and an audio interface that was plugged into his computer. I used a USB microphone, directly into my computer. Sound familiar? It should because those are two of the most common ways podcasters connect to their computers for EXACTLY this kind of use.
I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the quality of audio Cleanfeed provides and the possibilities it affords for podcasting. But be warned – it IS still in beta and has glitches now and then. But Mark and Marc are working on them continually.
And the best part is that Mark has committed to always have a fairly full-featured version of Cleanfeed available for FREE. Yes, free.
Have I got your attention? OK – it’s time to listen!
Here’s a rough outline of TOPIC OR GUEST…
- [2:56] What is Cleanfeed?
- [4:39] How a broadcast radio background led to the creation of Cleanfeed.
- [15:59] Cleanfeed is now in beta stage. What are the plans for the software?
- [21:12] What the Cleanfeed interface looks like and how it works.
- www.Cleanfeed.net
- The Cleanfeed blog – http://blog.cleanfeed.net/
- Skype
- Ringer (affiliate)
- Source Connect
- Zencastr
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