DJ EQUIPMENT FOR PODCASTING

It is not expensive to start your own podcast. If you are a beginner what you require are only a free recording software, an inexpensive recording equipment or a microphone simply connected to your sound card in the computer and headphones. Basically only these three basic DJ equipment items are required to start podcasting. As you gain experience you may add on. You may require an office and a recording studio in case your recording is more frequent and you wish to publish podcasts regularly. Now the costs of DJ equipment for podcasting has come down drastically because the mass production due to increased sales.

As you improve your skills and you have more money to invest and consequently want to improve the quality you can go for professional DJ equipment for podcasting equipment. A good computer with not less than 512 MB of RAM which can run Windows XP will be a good asset. If you have a fast processor it will help in saving your time and getting a better mixing and editing. There should be sufficient space in the hard disk enough to store all your podcast audio files and all the podcast downloads. In the computer system the sound card must include line in and line out jacks. For the microphone and the headphones additional jacks are also required. If these jacks are in front it is easy to control. A high speed internet connection will help a lot for uploading your podcast.

A high quality microphone is highly recommended in your DJ equipment for podcasting. It will help capture your voice in its entirety. Logitech and Plantronics are two good brands coming in sets of microphone and headphones. If you are having portable voice recorder, then it will have built in microphones. In that case you must take particular care in having a good quality portable voice recorder. Another device you can add to your DJ equipment for podcasting is the pop filters. It will improve the quality of your sound, considerably. The filters block the popping sound which comes along with certain words and suppress the hissing sound in the speech. The filters are to be placed between the microphone and the mouth.

DJ equipment for podcasting are not very expensive even if you are going for a professional kit. For the beginners Audio Technica ST90 MKII or a Shure PG 48 is good enough for the microphone. The cost will come around $40 only. For a professional set up also these two are the best ones. A pop filter again of the same quality for both amateurs and professionals costs about $30. Amateurs can avoid using the filter to cut costs. For both these groups of podcasters a microphone stand is necessary to hold the microphone. For the professional a quality mixer and a USB audio interface are highly recommended. The total cost is not much either for the amateur or the professional. While buying this DJ equipment for podcasting make sure that you make the purchase from a reputed seller.