recording.md

Episodes are recorded via a three-way Skype audio call with every participant recording the full conversation via ecamm’s Call Recorder.

Pre-recording checklist

• Eliminate ambient noise
  • e.g., air conditioners, fans, outdoor noise, bunny thumps, etc.
• Have water available
• Disable any services that could interfere with your network or CPU
  • e.g., Dropbox, Copy, Backblaze, Crashplan, Time Machine, Netflix streaming, etc.
• Open the current episode’s outline file in Google Docs
• Open the Trello board of show topics
• Join the Skype call and start recording immediately
  • Always Be Recording™

During recording

• As show note topics come up, make a quick note in the Google Doc
  • Include relevant URLs

Post-recording checklist

• Aggregate the three raw audio files in the Dropbox directory
  • Parent directory: Podcast yyyy-mm-dd
  • Audio file naming: yyyy-mm-dd Code Optional recording – <participant name>.mov