Returning all-star guest Max Flight helps me cover 17 ways to re-evaluate your podcast this summer, and we also discuss Max's latest podcast production workflow, equipment, software and more.
Max has been producing aviation podcasts since 2008:
We discuss these 17 ways in which you can re-evaluate and improve your show this summer:
- Update your goals
- Change the format
- Start using chapters
- Personal focus on eliminating verbal crutches. (A short duration of intense focus will provide years of good results)
- Change and/or add equipment
- Sell old equipment
- Treat yourself to that mic you've always wanted
- Sound absorption and diffusers
- Add a new segment
- Cover new yet pertinent subject matter topics
- Publish in video format as well
- Publish better shownotes
- Revamp your marketing
- Evaluate the shows overall effectiveness
- Hire a VA
- Bring on a cohost
- Decide to end your show???
- Perhaps decide you want to become a professional podcast engineer/producer and earn a great living producing podcasts for clients - from home?!
And here's a lot more detail on Max's production:
Big changes since PES 20 and PES 39 mostly involve a simplification of the signal path:
- Skype and cohost multi-enders replaced by Riverside.fm
- Behringer mixer (still going strong since 2009!) replaced with MixPre
- The MixPre handles all mic pre-amplification
- Sound clips and pre-recorded segments played through Riverside, replacing an iOS soundboard
- Backup recording is handled by the MixPre
Current equipment:
- Sound Devices MixPre-6
- Also use a MixPre-3 Gen 2 for field recordings
- Zoom H5 for field recordings, too
- Heil PR40
- Sennheiser MD46 interview mic
- Dell XPS 16 and MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2018 model, 2.9GHz i9 32 GB laptops
- Audio Technica ATH-M50x headphones
- Yamaha HS5 monitors
Software: