86: DEMO: Mobile Recording for My Podcast Step By Step

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Mobile Recording can be hard to figure out, especially if you don’t have a money tree growing in your backyard. I’ve given a lot of thought to this from a “lean budget” perspective and have tried a LOT of things over the years I’ve been podcasting.

What I demo in this episode is the best MOBILE RECORDING solution I’ve discovered yet. It only requires one piece of software that is app based (phone or smart device) and one additional piece of hardware that is portable and costs less than $100. Interested? Play the stinkin’ episode!

Here’s What You'll Learn In This Mobile Recording Demo

• [0:51] Why I wanted to discover a remote or mobile recording solution for my podcast
• [2:20] How you can use the Auphonic service to set up for mobile recording
• [4:49] DISCLAIMERS: Audio quality at the source is still an audio quality limitation
• [5:55] How you can leave me a question that I can answer on this show!
• [6:47] The episode within the episode - DEMO of what my mobile recording solution produced (recorded in my freezing cold back yard)
• [9:02] The mic I used: The Rode VideoMIC ME
• [9:39] Ahead-of-time steps you need to take within Auphonic (see below for details).
• [14:35] How to get your smartphone app and connect your microphone - turn on AIRPLANE MODE
• [18:15] The perks of doing mobile recording this way - inexpensive, easy to transport, easy to pull off
• [21:51] How the Podcastification team will give you a %10 off discount ongoing

First step toward this mobile recording setup is this: you need to connect Auphonic to a storage account - they call it an “external service”

Ok, let’s get to it. In order to do exactly what I did in the “episode” within this episode you’ll need to set up some things ahead of time. First, you’ll need an Auphonic account.

Relax - Auphonic is free for up to 2 hours of audio a month. That’s pretty generous given that many podcasts are 30 minutes or less. So 4 episodes per month… you do the math. You can find a link to Auphonic below.

Then, within Auphonic you’ll need to follow the instructions I explain in this episode to set up a few things…

External services like Dropbox or Google Drive

#1 - click on the “services” tab at the top of the main page

#2 - In the lower section, select the service you want to use to store your intro and/or outro files. Auphonic will pull from that location to use them each time you access the template you’re going to create (I used Dropbox in my example)

Once you’ve got that external service set up, all you need to do is setup your Show’s Mobile “preset”. I’ll walk you through that next…

How to Set up your mobile recording preset in Auphonic

The first thing you’ll do before you actually try to set up a preset in Auphonic is to place a copy of your intro and/or outro into the proper spot within your external service (Dropbox or Google Drive).

I chose Dropbox, so here’s where it has to go: Dropbox>Apps>Auphonic

Place a copy of your intro and outro files in that folder and you’re good. They will be available to you within Auphonic as you move on to the next step

Next, go back to the menu at the top of the Auphonic homepage and select the “presets” option.

Click on the big, red “New Preset” button as you see here…

And you’ll get a page that allows you to specify all kinds of things about your preset. Here are the ones I focused on to set up my mobile recording preset…

Name:

I chose “P-Mobile” (for Podcastification