1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,460 So I want to go over some recommended upgrades, you don't by any means need any of these, but once 2 00:00:05,460 --> 00:00:10,140 you start growing your podcast or if you want to come with the best audio quality, initially I recommend 3 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:10,800 some of these things. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,840 Like one thing I want to preface this by saying is that if you don't have any audience or you don't 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,220 really have any money or you don't, you want to leverage, you know, what you can work with initially 6 00:00:20,220 --> 00:00:22,230 with the free stuff, then you don't need this. 7 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:23,220 Just skip this lecture. 8 00:00:23,250 --> 00:00:27,480 But if you, you know, eventually want to upgrade, these are the simplest things. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:28,980 It's not that expensive at all. 10 00:00:29,010 --> 00:00:30,970 But these are the simplest things that I'd recommend for you. 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:31,240 OK. 12 00:00:31,530 --> 00:00:35,850 One of the benefits of doing a podcast and doing audio is that you really don't need an expensive setup. 13 00:00:35,870 --> 00:00:39,750 Now I recommend plugging your Blu snowball into your computer. 14 00:00:39,780 --> 00:00:41,400 This is the easiest way to do it. 15 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,000 And then literally recording with this, this is literally has a USP. 16 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,810 If we can pull up a picture right here, you see it plugs directly into a computer and you could start 17 00:00:48,810 --> 00:00:54,080 speaking and then record directly from the actual anchor platform. 18 00:00:54,110 --> 00:00:54,200 Right. 19 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:55,450 Super easy to do. 20 00:00:55,470 --> 00:00:57,390 Here's a picture of the. 21 00:00:57,810 --> 00:00:58,770 Of course, there's no picture. 22 00:00:58,830 --> 00:00:59,580 OK, here it is. 23 00:00:59,850 --> 00:01:02,160 So you see it literally plugs in right here. 24 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,490 It's going around the thing and then it's plugged underneath the computer. 25 00:01:05,490 --> 00:01:07,320 It plugs right into the side that you're us being. 26 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:09,870 You speak into the blue yeti or the blue microphone. 27 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,170 Now, the recommended industry standard is there's a couple of them. 28 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,640 A lot of people use the blue yeti. 29 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,920 I do not like the blue Yeti because they literally can't. 30 00:01:18,510 --> 00:01:20,520 It's much harder to use, number one. 31 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:22,500 And often it comes with some static. 32 00:01:22,650 --> 00:01:24,810 You need to fix and it's complete headache. 33 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,840 This does about 95 percent of what the blue yeti does. 34 00:01:27,930 --> 00:01:29,400 And it's like, you know. 35 00:01:29,430 --> 00:01:30,840 Twenty five percent of the cost. 36 00:01:30,870 --> 00:01:32,310 So often you can find this. 37 00:01:32,310 --> 00:01:34,290 I think I spent seventy five bucks on mine. 38 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:35,100 I have two of them. 39 00:01:35,580 --> 00:01:40,070 But often you can find this on like eBay or Amazon if you just search for blue snowball blues. 40 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,420 The company Snowball is the actual brand of the microphone. 41 00:01:42,930 --> 00:01:43,680 Blue snowball. 42 00:01:43,740 --> 00:01:48,350 You can find this for like 40 or 50 bucks on eBay, sometimes like 60 bucks on Amazon. 43 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,670 So I would just search for one, get a blue snowball. 44 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:51,960 Well worth it. 45 00:01:51,990 --> 00:01:53,250 And it's not very expensive. 46 00:01:53,250 --> 00:01:56,120 It's going to increase your audio quality, you know, ridiculously. 47 00:01:56,270 --> 00:01:58,650 Is literally what I'm using right now when I'm speaking. 48 00:01:59,340 --> 00:02:03,180 Now, if you're just planning on recording with something simple, you can also use like something for 49 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:03,720 half the cost. 50 00:02:03,780 --> 00:02:06,930 Just get yourself a simple lavalier that plugs into the computer and record. 51 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,640 That way, if you want to go even cheaper or if you plan on recording from your phone, just get a simple 52 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:12,290 lavaliere, right. 53 00:02:12,330 --> 00:02:15,540 You don't need anything else that's like super high tech. 54 00:02:15,630 --> 00:02:17,070 Just get a lavalier microphone. 55 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:18,690 It plugs directly into your phone. 56 00:02:18,990 --> 00:02:24,690 If you have obviously a newer phone than get one that plugs into the newer socket of the phone, or 57 00:02:24,690 --> 00:02:27,800 you can even get one that is like a wireless lavalier. 58 00:02:27,810 --> 00:02:29,730 All those those are more a little bit more expensive. 59 00:02:30,030 --> 00:02:31,530 Get a simple lavaliere microphone. 60 00:02:31,530 --> 00:02:32,790 They're super, super cheap. 61 00:02:32,790 --> 00:02:34,860 They're like 10 to 20 bucks at most. 62 00:02:35,220 --> 00:02:39,120 Anything is going to increase the audio quality better than you just speaking into the phone. 63 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:40,900 But you don't need anything. 64 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:42,900 Any of these things by any means. 65 00:02:42,930 --> 00:02:46,560 I just kind of want to give you some recommendations if you wanted to upgrade.