I'm JP, the founder of Pop Up Podcasting in Ottawa. We make podcasts for businesses, non-profits, and individuals. Some of our clients include the Canadian Human Rights Commission, First Nations Child & Family Caring Society, Syntax Strategic, restaurateur Adam Vettorel, and realtor Nick Fundytus.
Our studio is small but mighty! It's about 200 square feet in an office tower in downtown Ottawa, split into a control room and a studio.
Four Electro-Voice RE320 mics are connected to an Allen & Heath SQ-5 mixer. We have three Sony AX53 camcorders going into a Blackmagic ATEM Extreme ISO for video. We also have a teleprompter and several TVs to display client artwork and to let clients see remote guests. Everything goes into a custom PC for editing.
Our setup only makes sense because it helps us land paying clients - it's overkill for most podcasters. For example, if you're starting a new podcast, instead of the $6000 mixer, I'd recommend a Rodecaster Pro II for 1/5th the price, and even that is overkill for many. If you're recording solo/remotely, a $100 USB mic will often do the trick!
We use Hindenburg Pro, Davinci Resolve, Descript, Riverside, and Zoom to record and edit depending on the scenario. We typically recommend our clients use Simplecast for hosting audio.
Yes, we do! If we can, we'll record live in the studio using our ATEM and an iPad app called MixEffect to enable "Video Follows Audio" - this automates camera switching so the mixer switches to the active speaker automatically, which is handy. For remote video, we use Riverside. Everything is edited in either Davinci Resolve or Descript (which is especially great for clips with captions).
I think we've just about got it - though I'm always thinking about what's next and how we could improve. I'd love more space, but rent is expensive. And a camera upgrade would be great too, but when you're buying 3 at a time, that cost can get out of hand quickly too! Oh, and video lighting - I'd love to upgrade that eventually. I have the dream setup I wanted 5 years ago, but my dreams just keep getting bigger.
I'm Terry O'Reilly.
Editor's note: Terry O'Reilly is a Canadian radio personality, advertising expert, and podcaster. His advertising career began in 1981 as a creative director for a Burlington radio station. In 2004, he started hosting the CBC Radio show "The Age of Persuasion," which explored the world of advertising and marketing. The show was a huge success and ran for nine seasons. O'Reilly later launched a spin-off podcast called "Under the Influence."
Under The Influence is a fun insider's look at the advertising industry hosted by an ex-adman. It takes an insightful and very amusing look at the intersection of pop culture and advertising. The podcast was downloaded 7 million times last year.
We record our podcasts inside a restored 1969 Airstream "Caravel" trailer. We created a recording studio inside the Airstream trailer - the studio is soundproof, and it has three forms of heating (in-floor, convection, space heater - we record right through the Canadian winter) and air conditioning. It's a beautiful, creative space with a recording desk at one end and a producer's table at the other end. And it's fully mobile.
We use a Sennheiser 416 shotgun mic, a Universal Apollo Twin desktop interface, a Behringer ultra-compact 4-channel stereo headphone amplifier, two Dynaudio speakers, and two Audio-Technica headphones.
We use ProTools for recording and editing our audio. Our podcast hosting provider is Acast.
We are kind of living it. We can take our recording studio with us when we travel. And we chose to build an Airstream studio because we wanted to have recording flexibility between our home and our summer home.
Under The Influence is part of the Apostrophe Podcast Network and most of our podcasts are recorded in our Airstream studio (our listeners have dubbed it "The Terstream" since Terry records his show there). It took one full year to restore the Airstream and construct/install the studio.
I'm James McKinven, and I run a podcast production service called PodPanda.
I have two shows of my own:
I recently transformed a tiny cupboard in my flat into a podcast booth.
I removed all the rubbish I stored there, added 5cm thick sound panels from Amazon on every surface, and installed a thick carpet and a chair. Now I have a perfectly sound-treated room to record my podcasts in.
I made a video showing how I did it: https://youtu.be/XvKgsEunnBU
I've used the best of the best for podcasts before, the Shure SM7B, with a Cloudlifter and a Rodecaster Pro, but I realized this is overkill for most remote podcasts. Especially when people are listening in less-than-ideal scenarios while commuting or on Bluetooth headphones.
Since then, I've switched to my trusty Shure MV7 because it's much more simple to use and still sounds fantastic. Oh, and I'm on a mission to eradicate the Blue Yeti microphone with my https://dontbuyayeti.com site.
I schedule all episodes using Savvycal and plan everything in Notion.
I then record using Riverside, edit in Descript, and distribute using Transistor.
For video podcasts, I edit exactly the same way I did audio-only in Descript. The only extra steps are creating a "frame" and thumbnail, which I've made templates for in Figma.
I'm very fortunate: I pretty much have my dream podcast setup.
I have a client, Uncensored CMO, who asked me to purchase a video recording studio setup. This included 2x SM7Bs, a Rodecaster Pro, ATEM mini, 2x Lumix S5s; I even splurged on Mogami XLR cables which made me more excited than you might imagine.
My next goal is to build out a full broadcast podcast studio with branding, lighting, and a permanent setup in London. If anyone wants to fund that, let me know! ?
My name is Stephen Robles. I got my degree in trumpet performance but went on to do photography and video for a travel company. Now, I'm a content creator and video producer.
I produce these podcasts:
Here's my most recent episode of Movies on the Side:
We recently built a new house and included a 9x8’ studio space for content creation.
The Sony a6400 is a little dated, so maybe I'd get the Sony ZVE-10 instead (depending on the use case). But honestly, I’d probably buy it again.
It’s pretty close right now, but I would love to relocate the studio equipment to a stand-alone shed structure on my property, so house noise isn’t a problem. Having three kids at home is a lot, and I would love to not have them worry about being quiet when I record. ?
Here are some of my home/studio construction photos:
You can also check out my studio tour on YouTube.
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