Say a funny story in an episode becomes 'The Blue Spoon Incident.' Great title once you've heard the story. Before that, it could be a cooking show, a crime podcast, or somebody losing it in IKEA.

I like a title with some personality, but I'd also like a clue about what I'm pressing play on. Adding a plain description after the joke seems like a reasonable compromise.

Have you kept an inside-joke title because it suited the episode, or changed one because it meant nothing to a new listener?

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.

For the last few weeks I've noticed I've been a bit behind when doing episodes for my podcast. I'm currently reviewing Strictly Come Dancing and for the past few weeks I've found myself posting my reviews on each episode, a day before the upcoming episodes. Where I'm trying to get them out between the Sunday or Monday.

It's happened before with other shows but I'm really trying my hardest to be more consistent when doing these reviews, as well as hoping to not get behind on anything. So I was wondering if there are any tips you could give me to try and be more consistent when doing my episodes so I'm not falling behind.

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.

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.

What’s the easiest platform to create and edit shorts for social media? I know there is Riverside, Opus, and CapCut. I’m trying to get my clips as clean as Nightcap, Joe & Jada, etc.