Podcasting Tutorial – Video 2: My Top 10 Recording Tips

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When it comes to creating a great-sounding podcast, there are a few things you’ll need to know. *** Take my Power-Up Podcasting course: .

When it comes to creating a great podcast experience for your listeners, it’s all about the little things—the finer points.

In this video, I give you my top 10 tips for recording, so you can have a stellar show with great sound quality.

I cover mic distance, optimizing sound levels, finding the right show length, and crafting a great intro and outro—plus using show notes, segments, and editing techniques to make your podcast sound as great as possible.

This is the second in a series of 6 podcasting tutorial videos to help you get your podcast up and running, so make sure to watch video 1 if you haven’t already!

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23 Comments

  1. Pat Flynn
    Pat Flynn on October 10, 2012 at 7:07 am

    iPad, using Reflection to Mirror onto my iMac and recording with Screenflow. The software is called “Paper” by FiftyThree.

  2. Pat Flynn
    Pat Flynn on October 10, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    Good call – thanks!

  3. Pat Flynn
    Pat Flynn on October 14, 2012 at 4:01 am

    Reflection App on the iMac + Screenflow

  4. Pat Flynn
    Pat Flynn on October 14, 2012 at 4:02 am

    Thanks! Fixed! I appreciate it! 🙂

  5. Andrew Pyrah
    Andrew Pyrah on March 18, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    “Once you go red, you never go back” nice 🙂

  6. Clay Lamb
    Clay Lamb on January 1, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    You are great instructor! 
     Thank you for simplicity 

  7. Marcos Gazzana
    Marcos Gazzana on February 7, 2014 at 2:02 am

    Great tips! Thanks for taking the time to produce such a cool tutorial!

  8. denzelswifey86
    denzelswifey86 on February 12, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    thank you pAT YOU GIVE SO MUCH INFO FOR FREE

  9. Actualizing Self
    Actualizing Self on March 8, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    Thanks Pat for these tips! Really helpful to get started with our podcast.

  10. eCommerce Training Academy
    eCommerce Training Academy on September 2, 2014 at 11:24 pm

    Thank you Pat for sharing those valuable tips!

  11. Tonya Cummings
    Tonya Cummings on November 6, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    Great Tutorial, I love it, and I am so motivated now!!!

  12. Alec Martin
    Alec Martin on November 17, 2014 at 6:19 pm

    Really liked this video series. I’ve always wanted to do podcasts and this is really helping.

  13. Doug Sandler
    Doug Sandler on November 22, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    love your tips…brand new at podcasting and starting from the beginning right now…great tips

  14. The Portrait Dude
    The Portrait Dude on December 19, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    I really dig your style and feel less intimidated about setting up my own podcast now.  Thanks so much for the tips man!

  15. Plut-OH
    Plut-OH on February 16, 2015 at 4:11 am

    I have to disagree with the audio tips portion of this video. Recording as “hot” (not going into red) as possible is an old way if thinking. If you’re running a condenser or dynamic microphone you could record at just about any level and the quality won’t suffer. The reasoning behind recording hot is to keep the “noise” floor down (static white noise caused by circuitry issues). Today’s recording doesn’t suffer from high noise floors anymore (unless your recording from and through analog). You should instead talk about compression. That will insure that your voice remains consistent even when moving away from the microphone. Jus an additional tip from an audio engineer, cheers!

  16. Jurell Sison
    Jurell Sison on March 8, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    Wow! Very impressive! Have you done a video for what software you are using to teach your videos? I love your notebook templates. Is there a way I learn how to do this as well?

  17. MinuteFitness
    MinuteFitness on March 19, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    Interesting insight, thanks for this! 

  18. Write to Publish & Sell Your Book
    Write to Publish & Sell Your Book on December 7, 2016 at 7:17 pm

    Pat, thank you SO much for this series, and for all of the wonderful content you provide. I am so grateful for your work.

  19. pooperscoop54321
    pooperscoop54321 on June 7, 2018 at 5:25 pm

    I just started a podcast, and I’ve just been uploading it to youtube. Do you think this is a bad strategy for getting listeners?

  20. Runner Mix
    Runner Mix on August 10, 2018 at 12:32 am

    I know this video is old but the tips ARE so good 🙌🙌🙌 thank U Pat for your hard work and sharing this tips that I need to have with Podcast journey😊✌🏽 Blessings!

  21. kareem yami
    kareem yami on October 29, 2018 at 5:28 pm

    Thank you for that last tip. I’m just getting started and I caught myself taking it to seriously. Fun is what it’s all about for me! 😁

  22. composed235
    composed235 on November 10, 2018 at 5:29 pm

    Agreed. It’s so easy to do a little bit of compression in many programs! While you don’t want to overdo it, people are so used to the sound of compression in professionally produced audio that if anything it tends to sounds more polished/professional.

  23. Bebe
    Bebe on November 29, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    This is correct.