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The Best Podcast Gear for Recording On the Go · Abbey the Podcast Lady

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  Thank you. Well, hello there and welcome to another
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  episode of Abby the Podcast Lady. If you are
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  watching the YouTube version of this, you can
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  probably see that I am once again sitting at
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  the end of the dock recording a podcast from
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  the lake and I'm batch recording, practicing
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  what I preach. I am batch recording my show,
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  doing multiple at a time, but I am on my own
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  version of a vacation right now, just taking
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  a few days to work from the lake instead of working
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  from my house or my studio. And it has been just
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  absolutely magical. I mean, look at this view
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  behind me. That's our owl. His name is Yellerbelly.
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  Not the point of the podcast. Welcome to the
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  show. Thank you for being here. Today, I want
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  to talk about how you can podcast truly from
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  anywhere with how technology has advanced even
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  in the past few years. And prime example of that,
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  I'm sitting at the end of my dock making a podcast
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  right now. You can truly podcast from anywhere.
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  Some of the craziest places I've actually podcasted
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  from, I have podcasted from the back room at
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  a sports bar. I have podcasted from a over 100
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  -year -old grandstand. county fairgrounds. I
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  have podcasted from a flower field. There's been
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  a lot of different places that I have drug my
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  equipment to and set up and it has gotten easier
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  than ever. When I first started podcasting, I
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  was using a PodTrack P4 recorder, which I still
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  have. I still love my PodTrack P4. It is so incredibly
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  convenient and it's just so easy to take with
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  you everywhere. And it's battery operated, so
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  you can just like shove batteries in it. That's
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  how I could record from a grandstand at a county
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  fair, like no power needed. It's all in the PodTrack
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  P4 and I'll put a little picture of it right
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  here too. But I was using that. I was using two
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  Zoom microphones, which I think are actually
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  really good microphones. The best of both our
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  worlds. Hannah Montana Rewatch Podcast has been
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  using those lately. I think they're great quality
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  for a really great price point. They are XLR
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  microphones. So you do need to have a special
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  cable and a special converter to use those. But
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  I was starting my podcasting business. Oh gosh,
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  we're creeping up on four years ago now. And
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  that was the technology. was using then and my
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  kit has totally changed to now so right now I
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  am actually recording this podcast on a extra
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  muse camera which is a gimbal camera kind of
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  like the dji osmo pocket that's what this is
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  it's just a different company I love my extra
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  muse camera I actually love the whole extra brand
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  of cameras I think they're fantastic and I would
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  point anyone in the direction of buying one of
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  those and then for a microphone I just have my
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  dji mic mini clipped onto my shirt right here
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  and it actually connects wirelessly to the extra
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  Muse camera. So this is my current on the go
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  podcast kit. And this is actually what I used
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  when I was at Podfest. I recorded a bunch of
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  client content at Podfest because my clients
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  from across the country were all conveniently
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  in one place. We were doing some batching content
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  there. But what I would do is I would set up
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  this extra Muse camera and then wirelessly connect
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  my wireless microphones, give them each a microphone,
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  and then they would record their shows. And it
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  was so simple, so convenient. This whole kit
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  fit into my purse. Like this camera, this extra
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  muse camera, it's only about this big. Well,
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  they're itty bitty. They're teeny tiny little
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  microphones, but they pack a big punch. And so
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  it was just so convenient to every morning, wake
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  up, throw my camera, throw my microphones into
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  my purse, and we could record podcasts anywhere
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  that we were at. That's what I love about how
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  technology is changing with podcasting and doing
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  it on the go. You can truly do it from anywhere
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  with almost anything. I've been recently watching
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  the latest season of Only Murders in the Building,
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  which is the Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena
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  Gomez. Gomez show about a group of friends running
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  a podcast about murders that happen in their
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  building. And as I was watching the show, I was
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  kind of clocking it for what equipment they're
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  using to run their podcast. I know it's a show.
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  I know it's fake. I know Selena Gomez was moving
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  the wrong sliders on the road podcaster and the
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  power wasn't even on. But I was just kind of
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  clocking, like, how are they portraying making
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  a podcast in this TV show? And for the bulk of
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  it, they were using a cell phone. They were holding
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  their phone like this, talking into it, using
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  probably the voice memo. app. I think when I
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  screenshotted Meryl Streep holding it and recording
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  into it, it just looked like the voice memo app
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  that comes preloaded on all iPhones. And that's
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  what they were using to record their show. And
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  in that universe, they are like a top whatever
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  podcast. So truly, you can do almost everything
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  just from having a cell phone. Fancy gear is
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  fun. I love it. I am a gear junkie. I think my
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  number one hobby is just buying microphones and
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  cameras. Like I truly, I truly love buying cameras
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  off the TikTok shop. But you don't need more
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  than just your cell phone to get started. I believe
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  it was Jenna Kutcher. She is a coaching influencer
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  person. She lives in Minnesota. But I think she
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  started her podcast with just her phone. Maybe
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  she had a simple microphone too. And her Gold
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  Digger podcast is like a huge show. And she started
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  very simply. I have a client who records onto
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  her cell phone and just sits in her kid's closet
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  to absorb some of the noise. It's nice and quiet.
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  It sounds like a studio. You would never know
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  she's just using her cell phone to record her
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  show. And then on the flip side, I have the moxie
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  crew from moxie creative we record their podcast
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  once a month with every piece of gear i've ever
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  owned it's a three camera setup four lights and
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  a board and cables running absolutely everywhere
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  but that's what works for them and in all reality
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  the best setup for your podcast is the one that's
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  easiest for you to record on for me today having
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  my extra muse camera and my dji mic mini that's
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  the easiest thing i can do to start cranking
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  out some content and batching while i'm on vacation
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  if have your cell phone on you constantly and
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  you are in your car a lot maybe you drive a lot
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  for work open up the voice memo app and just
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  record on your phone in the car surprisingly
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  cars are one of the best places to record audio
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  and video just because it's like a contained
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  fabric rich environment so you don't get the
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  echo it's nice and enclosed and for the most
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  part it's pretty private if you're driving around
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  like with just you in the car it's your own time
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  you might as well use it to create something
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  and what's beautiful about that is you can just
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  open up the voice memo app and just start rambling
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  and then edit out everything you don't want everyone
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  to hear. It's not like you're live streaming
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  your consciousness. So that's another really
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  great way to podcast on the go and truly from
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  anywhere. Another awesome thing to use is if
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  you have a GoPro. GoPros work great because they
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  are so tiny and so portable. Like they're meant
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  to be taken absolutely everywhere. And GoPro
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  audio has come a long way in a lot of years.
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  I remember I had the GoPro Hero 1, I think. This
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  was like 10. years ago and the audio on that
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  thing was just trash i was supposed to make a
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  youtube video every single week for my work and
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  the audio was just so bad on it and then i got
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  the gopro session which didn't have that like
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  hard shell case on the outside of it and i thought
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  the audio would get better and it really didn't
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  because it was waterproof like they needed to
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  like seal everything up and it was just bad but
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  it's come a long way because i just got the extra
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  edge pro which is like a gopro dupe i guess you
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  could say it's an action camera but the audio
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  on it is much better and you can connect wireless
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  microphones to gopros now so you can just set
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  it up wherever you get a nice wide angle so you
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  can fit yourself in there maybe you have a guest
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  in there that you're interviewing you get a nice
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  field of view on it and you get crystal clear
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  audio if you're hooking up a microphone to it
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  and they are so great for just grabbing going
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  sticking in your purse sticking in your pocket
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  they're meant to be taken with you so make a
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  podcast with them why not truly you can make
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  a podcast from anywhere these days and if you
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  have a cell phone there's absolutely absolutely
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  nothing stopping you from doing this other than
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  yourself. So take a bet on yourself and start
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  recording. Hit record and see what happens. You
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  truly never know where this is going to take
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  you. So make that bet. Chances are you'll win
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  it. And if you need help figuring out what gear
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  to use, how to get started, guidance for your
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  show, anything like that, I'm here to help. I'm
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  Abby, the podcast lady. If you got questions,
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  I will find an answer to them. If you're looking
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  to just pick my brain for an hour about podcasting
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  questions, I would be happy to answer those questions.
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  You can get more information on setting up that
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  call on my website. If you're looking for more
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  comprehensive coaching on that sort of thing,
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  I have some online courses. I do offer one -on
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  -one coaching as well. So if you're looking for
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  some help in this arena, I'd be happy. to help
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  you out. Reach out. All the details are in the
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  show notes below. And I will catch you next week
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  on another episode of Abby the Podcast Lady.