The Nightmare of Podcasting
I have been attempting for 9 months to get a podcast up and operational. I have commercial grade microphones capable of producing a platinum album. I have hundreds of dollars worth of home studio interfaces to connect the microphones with my computer. My computer is even a pretty solid machine. The problem comes somewhere when I try to put it all together because I can’t podcast.
This all started last year when I was trying to create a project that my wife and I could work on together. It was going to be a blog and podcast. She’s more of the blogging type, while I am definitely more of the broadcasting type. You would think it would be a match made in heaven. Well, it has been anything but that.
My first interface is a Presonus Inspire 1394, a firewire device that lets me connect microphones to my machine. I used Adobe Audition to record it and for the most part it was ok. However, being a bit of a perfectionist, there was a slight echo with the acoustics of the room, as well as a slight hum in the audio. Combined, I deemed the podcast not worthy of releasing.
So for our anniversary, my wife got me a Presonus Audiobox USB. It’s been sitting here for the last 2 weeks. I decided that today would be the day that I would finally get it going. The drivers installed easy enough. I popped open Audition and it started giving me troubles. It won’t let me “Arm To Record” in multitrack mode. It also won’t let me record longer than a 1/10th of a second in Edit mode. Hmmm.
So I decide that I am going to try to use the Cubase that comes with Presonus gear. It works initially. Great. I’m in business. But then, I start tweaking the settings and now it is broken. I have a feeling that the buffer needs to be larger, but I can’t find the buffer. Google is failing me, or at least the search results are, because I don’t have the options that they say I should have.
Now I don’t know what to do. I am surrounded by stuff that isn’t cooperating with me. That sounds about right.
