Podcast Tips Before we begin, here are several tips to ensure you get the most from your podcast recording: • Use a good quality external USB microphone – this is preferable to the Mac’s built-in mic or even a headset which can pickup breathing noises • Record your podcast in a quiet room that’s free from background noise and other distractions • Don’t worry if you make a mistake, because you can always edit the podcast later on Podcast Recording You can record a podcast on the Mac without any additional software. The two most popular apps to use are Garageband and QuickTime Player. There are also several third-party apps in the Mac App Store available especially for podcasts. The tools already available on the Mac are described below. Bootcamp drivers windows 10.

Record Using QuickTime Player To make your audio recording in QuickTime Player, follow these simple steps: 1. Open QuickTime Player from the Applications folder or from Spotlight 2. From the File menu, choose New Audio Recording (or use Ctrl + Option + Command + N): Open QuickTime Player and select New Audio Recording 3. The Audio Recording window opens and shows various controls. Press the red Start button to begin 4. When you’ve finished the recording hit the Stop button to save the file – it will be saved in your Home folder under Movies, and will be called Audio Recording.m4a. The next step is to open the file in an editor such as GarageBand Start recording in QuickTime Player Record Using Podcast Capture The Mac has two very useful built-in applications called Podcast Capture and Podcast Publisher which are located in the Applications -> Utilities folder.

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Just launch the Podcast Capture application and follow the onscreen instructions to start recording. However, GarageBand (covered in the following sections) has lots more editing options, so we’ll concentrate on that in this tutorial. Record Using GarageBand 1. Open GarageBand from the Applications folder or from Spotlight 2. When prompted to create a new project choose Podcast as shown in the screenshot below Choose Podcast at the New Project window 3. Next, choose a name and save location for your podcast and click Create Choose your podcast's filename and location 4.

If you’re just going to record a single podcast track, make sure that you’ve only got one track in the list shown on the left of GarageBand. Delete any unnecessary tracks by holding down Command + Delete to remove them.

The GarageBand window should now look something like this: Delete any unnecessary podcast audio tracks 5. You should be able to leave the default GarageBand settings as they are. When you’re ready to record just press the big red record button at the bottom of the GarageBand window: Press the record button when you're ready to begin 6.