Podcasting

My Shows

The International Mac Podcast

The International Mac Podcast. IMP is a network of podcasts (or shows) all about topics relating to Mac and all the goodies that come from Apple. We also have a great blogging team and are trying to develop a real international Mac community. I’m one of the Executive Producers of the network and co-founded the project with my good friend Chris Wall.

My Setup

Over the years I’ve built up a fair bit of podcasting gear, I started off with the Blue Snowball, which is a nice USB mic, although I now prefer and recommend the Samson CO1U for those wanting to starting in podcasting. I migrated to an Alesis MultiMix12 FireWire mixer with a MXL-990 condenser microphone, which served me well for a fair while until I needed a more portable rig, mainly for the IMP Live in New York and Los Angeles trips back in early 2009. I then ‘upgraded’ to a M-Audio FastTrack Ultra interface, quite frankly it’s a piece of junk, I’ve had it fail on me twice in a year and it produces some really nasty noise on the pre-amps, avoid M-Audio gear at all costs!

So that brings me onto my current podcasting setup…

• Mac : MacBook Pro 15″ – 2.2ghz / 4gb RAM / 320gb HDD / nVidia geForce 8600 GTM 128mb VRAM
• Display : Samsung 19″ LCD 1440×900
• Storage / Backup : Western Digital MyBook Studio 1TB / LaCie LittleDisk 250GB / Apple TimeCapsule 1TB
• Audio Interface : Focusrite Saffire Pro40
• Microphones : ElectroVoice N/D 767a (x4)
• Headphones : Sennheiser CX-300-II in-ear / Sennheiser eH-350 cans
• Software
  • Garageband
  • WireTap Studio
  • WireTap Anywhere
  • Soundboard
  • NIcecast
  • The Levellator