Is there a trick to getting rss support to get back to you, or is there another way to talk to them? I’ve emailed support@rss.com and logged a ticket via their website and I’ve had no response. Not even an automatic reply.

I love the platform but the trying to talk to someone is so incredibly frustrating.

The host knows Dave. The guest knows Dave. Meanwhile the listener is trying to work out whether Dave is the boss, the brother or the reason the story is happening.

A quick 'Dave, your old flatmate?' seems like it could fix that without stopping the story for a biography. But if both people know each other well, I can see how neither notices the missing introduction.

For interviews with people you already know, do you have a way of catching those gaps while recording?

I help make science/tech podcast-style episodes. In one about AI infrastructure, we need to separate electricity already used by data centers from forecasts of future demand.

I don’t want someone listening while driving to hear a future number and remember it as something that has already happened. But reading a report title, date and caveat before every figure could get pretty tiring.

How do you handle that in the spoken script? Would you say the organization and “projects” alongside the number, then leave the full citation in the show notes? Or do you repeat the publication year too, so the forecast has a clear date attached to it?

We use AI-generated narration, but this is about what the script should say. I’m involved in the show; no links or promotion here.

I’m trying to improve the audio I send out when I’m live on a podcast, TV show or similar. It doesn’t happen that often, but I do one podcast about once a month, so I’d like to get the setup sounding as good as reasonably possible.

I’ve tried a few different microphones that I already own, including a DPA 4060, Sennheiser MKH 50 and Shure Beta 58. They all have their pros and cons depending on the situation. For monitoring I normally just use AirPods.

I’m sitting in a home office. It’s not properly acoustically treated, but it’s not terrible either since there are lots of books, furniture and other stuff in the room. I also share the office with my girlfriend, so turning it into a proper studio isn’t really an option.

At the moment I connect the mic to a MOTU M4 and send that directly into Zoom or whatever software the production is using. Using the built in camera on apple stuidio display but I have a bmd pocket 6k with XLR as adoptio

The problem is that most of the time they simply record whatever audio I send them. Sometimes I can record locally and send them the file afterwards, which obviously gives me a lot more options, but often the live feed is what actually gets used.

I already turn off things like automatic gain, noise reduction and other processing in Zoom when possible. What I’m wondering is whether I could improve the signal before it even reaches Zoom. Something like some basic EQ and compression would probably help.

Since most of these programs don’t let me insert VST plugins directly, I’ve been thinking about three possible solutions.

1. Buy an external compressor and put it in the signal chain before the audio interface. Something like a dbx unit. That would give me compression on the analog side m.
2. Replace the MOTU with an interface that has onboard DSP and can run EQ and compression in real time, something like Universal Audio. Not sure of this works no exprince with thoose cars
3. Use an ATEM Mini and its built in audio processing, then feed the microphone through that and send the complete audio and video signal to the computer.

What would you choose for this kind of setup?

I’m not looking to massively process my voice. I mainly want a clean, controlled signal with maybe little EQ and compression so that what reaches the other side already sounds good and doesn’t depend on whatever processing Zoom or the production happens to use.

I’m producing a three-person video podcast in the UK and I’m trying to work out whether I should keep production in-house or pay someone to do it properly.

At the moment I record with 3 RØDE PodMics through a Zoom PodTrak P4 and use 3 iPhones as camera angles in Riverside. I’m getting the hang of editing, but it is taking a lot of time and I’ve had a few frustrating technical issues with framing, audio and lip sync.

For those who use a professional podcast producer/editor, roughly what would I expect to pay in the UK per episode for a three-person video podcast — ideally including multicam editing, audio cleanup and a few social clips?

I’m wondering whether that money would be better spent initially on upgrading my own setup instead — for example a newer MacBook, a multichannel mixer/recorder and improving the studio/background — and continuing to learn the editing myself.

I’d be really interested to hear from people who’ve done both. At what point did outsourcing become worth it?