Wow, look at this! I'm actually doing a blog post ahead of time, rather than Sunday night at 11:30... I think I might go into shock :)
Anyway, the software I'm using for my podcast is called Audacity. I've tested it out a few times, between recording my audio segments with it from my phone and testing out recording my own voice to see how it comes out, and so far the sound is great and it's relatively easy(ish) to use (and, surprisingly, my voice doesn't sound that bad - it seems as long as I make an effort to enunciate and speak a few octaves higher than I would do naturally, my voice comes out clear and sounding at least half decent).
As for advice on using the software, there seems to be an overabundance of tutorial videos about it on Youtube, a few of which are found at the following links:
Audacity - Audio Editing
Basic tips on Audacity
Also, Audacity has a great user manual that answers pretty much any questions about the software that you can think of, found at this link:
Audacity Manual
There is also a helpful page found at this other link that details things you need to know to use the software more easily:
Audacity Tutorial - Record and Edit Audio
An important thing to note in addition is something I just found out from that link I just included: apparently if you want to be able to export your podcast recording as an MP3 file from Audacity so that you can post it, you need to download an additional thing called "LAME MP3 encoder" (I love ironic names for things, as a side note). You can access the download page through the following page on the Audacity site:
Installation, Startup and Plug-ins - Audacity Manual
It only takes a second to do, and so far my computer hasn't melted, so it appears to be safe.
That's all for now though - until next week... off to Fact Checking.
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