RECORDING HIGH QUALITY GUEST AUDIO

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO GET GUEST CONTRIBUTORS ONTO YOUR PODCAST WITH PROPER AUDIO QUALITY USING CALLME-DIRECT.

So, you’ve done all the clever stuff; good idea – check; home studio sorted – check; decent microphones – check; headphones – check; recording – check; editing– check; publisher – check; sponsor – check (fingers crossed). Your first podcasts are doing really well; lots of followers; not bad for an idea hatched round the kitchen table and indeed recorded there. But now the next stage; why not have some guest contributors; people not around the same kitchen table; but how? CallMediRECt to the rescue. CallMe comes from broadcast and is used to put guest contributors live on-air to the studio with 20kHz audio without them needing to have dedicated hardware or download custom software. With CallMe-diRECt, you – the host – logs into your CallMe Account and you see details of your previous guests. You can use of the stored links or add a new guest – but in any case, you send them a web link which can be as a QR Code. Once your guest connects to your page on the CallMe-diRECt server, you as the host will see them arrive and can select them, connect to them and talk live browser-to-browser. The connection is end-to-end encrypted. The 20kHz audio can stream live into your home studio kit and be recorded but there is always the danger of an internet issue causing glitches. This is where CallMe-diRECt comes into its own. The host can initiate in-browser recordings where the host’s audio is recorded in their browser and the guest’s in their browser with nothing stored on any server – ie fully GDPR-Compliant; the CalMe server is simply for addressing and connectivity whilst the audio travels directly between the browsers. Cleverly, whilst the conversation is being recorded, the guest’s recording is being transferred to the host in the background and is shown on the host’s display. There are two recordings for each session – on with the host’s audio and the other with the guest’s. Multiple recordings can be included in any session with each on showing on the host’s screen. The recordings are in a standard format - lossless FLAC which can be imported to most editing software and is the standard for lossless audio quality. Guest contributors; sorted – even when the internet connection is not so hot.