As for your questiona bout gain and volume settings. These will be different for every mixer and every microphone that is out there. The most important thing is to keep your levels on the recorder in that -12 to -6 db range. Do that, any you should get perfect audio levels all the time.

Your products continue to make a massive impact on the quality of the podcast I produce on the tsquareg.net website. I recently purchased the Roland R-05 training product and found it very useful indeed. I do have a question about mixer settings. I have the Mackie Profx and was wondering what are the optimum gain and volume settings for the mic to ensure pristine quality ?

Keep up the excellent work !

I purchased a second one of your products and I can honestly say that it has been instrumental in improving the quality of my podcast on tsquareg.net in a big way.

Thanks again for the Roland R-05 product !

Tim Flynn

We talk about Mailing Lists pretty extensively in the Passive Income Strategies For Podcasters tutorial found at http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/help.

In that tutorial, Pat Flynn mentions that he uses AWeber and I mention that I use MailChimp. I may include an update, just by post on that product’s page, that I have moved to AWeber and provide a PDF of my http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/aweber blog post.

Thanks!
Adam

Please note: This GarageBand Tutorial “IS NOT” what you are looking for the following reasons.

1) I don’t spend any time talking about his removal. My process has been to eliminate hiss sounds in the production process rather than post production. I don’t even teach out to record in GarageBand, only how to use it for post production editing.

2) I do not show how to import Skype recording and how to split a track. My preferred method for Skype conversations has been to record on the same track as my own using a Mixer MixMinus technique recording into a digital recorder.

3) The tutorial totally lives up to the “101″ Just the BASICS that a brand new podcaster would need to be able to edit their podcast audio recordings. I show how to include music at the front and end of the show and to fad music in and out. I’m not a fan of the “ducking” feature that is built in.

If you are looking for advanced techniques, this isn’t the product. It’s very basic.

>> Eliminating the hiss sound
>> Right levels of pre-amplifications
>> Importing a skype recording and splitting tracks
>> Ducking of the music track while speaking or on certain portions of a recorded voice track

Keep doing the great work! Enjoyed your 200th episode! You are my inspiration to be starting a new podcast soooon!

I just discovered your podcast a few weeks ago and have been consuming them rapidly, it is a pleasure to listen to you info packed podcasts… you really do a great job. I want to mention that I found you via the Internet Business Mastery Academy, well, indirectly from searching on itunes… so cheers to Sterling and Jay for that!
My question is in trying to grasp why you only use 30 hours a month for VA’s, I realize you are very passionate about your work and put in a lot of time yourself, but that one particular episode where you mention the whiteboards with 30+ passive income ideas, my head just started spinning….and I, of course had to compare that with guys like John Jonas or Sterling and Jay who use several full time VA’s , then I have recently heard of this guy, James Schramko, who has I think 12 different businesses and makes over 300K a year, just a thought!

Hey , thanks again, I am so excited to listen to you and all the other great podcasters out there that really spark my imagination.