My girlfriend does a podcast with a cohost who lives in another state. I help with recording on her end, and give as much advice to him on the other end as I can, but he just does a terrible job, and I'd like to help him improve. There's one major stand-out problem as I see it: he can't hear himself.
So the setup is this:
They skype in order to talk, and they each record their own audio. She records both her audio and his (via the skype call as a backup to his recording). They sync it up later fairly easily.
On our end:
Zoom H6 recorder, with Shure SM58 (with foam cover) going to one channel, and the computer audio (skype, itunes, etc) going to another. Her headphones plug into the Zoom recorder, so she hears both her own voice and the skype audio coming through the headphones.
On his end:
He's got what looks like a Shure SM7B (though he says it has a USB interface and I know he's recording straight to a quicktime file on his computer, so I'm not 100% certain what mic it is).
He plugs in headphones to the laptop so he can hear the skype call, but he isn't hearing his own audio, so it really just comes out sounding terrible, with either tons of plosives or tons of reverb - or sometimes even both, depending on how he's positioned. Essentially, typical problems one gets when recording without listening.
I'm trying to come up with advice on how to change his setup so he can at the very least hear both the skype call AND his own audio. I figure if he can just hear himself, he'll be more likely to adjust his own behavior to minimize the plosives, etc.
But it seems surprisingly difficult to figure out how to route skype audio and external audio through a computer (mac) so they both come out the headphones while recording the external audio, either by itself or on separate channels alongside the skype audio, without incorporating an external recorder. I'm inclined to advise him to just get a Zoom recorder too, honestly, but if I'm not mistaken, the USB mic seems like a bit of a hurdle on that front too. Is this more of a software question than a hardware question, or do I need to address both hardware and software problems here?
Can anybody here advise..?
Thank you!
p.s. if you'd like to hear for yourself, go straight to the last episode, and skip to the 3 minute mark.
Monica! The Podcast by Daniel Rogge & Tracie Potochnik on Apple Podcasts
So the setup is this:
They skype in order to talk, and they each record their own audio. She records both her audio and his (via the skype call as a backup to his recording). They sync it up later fairly easily.
On our end:
Zoom H6 recorder, with Shure SM58 (with foam cover) going to one channel, and the computer audio (skype, itunes, etc) going to another. Her headphones plug into the Zoom recorder, so she hears both her own voice and the skype audio coming through the headphones.
On his end:
He's got what looks like a Shure SM7B (though he says it has a USB interface and I know he's recording straight to a quicktime file on his computer, so I'm not 100% certain what mic it is).
He plugs in headphones to the laptop so he can hear the skype call, but he isn't hearing his own audio, so it really just comes out sounding terrible, with either tons of plosives or tons of reverb - or sometimes even both, depending on how he's positioned. Essentially, typical problems one gets when recording without listening.
I'm trying to come up with advice on how to change his setup so he can at the very least hear both the skype call AND his own audio. I figure if he can just hear himself, he'll be more likely to adjust his own behavior to minimize the plosives, etc.
But it seems surprisingly difficult to figure out how to route skype audio and external audio through a computer (mac) so they both come out the headphones while recording the external audio, either by itself or on separate channels alongside the skype audio, without incorporating an external recorder. I'm inclined to advise him to just get a Zoom recorder too, honestly, but if I'm not mistaken, the USB mic seems like a bit of a hurdle on that front too. Is this more of a software question than a hardware question, or do I need to address both hardware and software problems here?
Can anybody here advise..?
Thank you!
p.s. if you'd like to hear for yourself, go straight to the last episode, and skip to the 3 minute mark.
Monica! The Podcast by Daniel Rogge & Tracie Potochnik on Apple Podcasts