Rob Walch – PES 006

My guest is Rob Walch, VP of Podcaster Relations for Libsyn, and host and/or producer of the following podcast shows:

• Podcast 411
• The Feed
• Today in iOS
• KC Startup 411
• Even his son Porter has a podcast! Porters Podcast
• Rob also helps produce WelchCast

We spoke in detail about Rob’s technical setup for each of his shows.

Rob had some great tips for all of us:

• Record your Skype audio on a different device instead of on the same computer which you’re using to Skype. Then there’s no risk of over-taxing that computer’s CPU
• He loves his Marantz 660 digital recorder – rock solid
• Sound Soap (plugin to clean up audio) – $150, works in GarageBand
• When making Skype calls, the call will be smoother if the call is initiated from the person with the fastest internet connection
• When linking to your show’s iTunes presence, there is a way to have your show open directly in the place where your listener can click ‘Subscribe.’ *Here are the steps:
  1. Append &LS=1 to your iTunes show URL
  2. Then create a Bitly link for that link
  3. Then use that Bitly link to promote your show in iTunes

BTW- try clicking the one of the two iTunes links in this post and see where it opens 😉

Also, while recording this episode we had a disconnection/crash of CAST, which we were using to connect and record. I am digging CAST and learning how to use it…….and how NOT to use it – like closing the tab of a session and then trying to get back to that session (which you can’t)

Thank you for being a great guest and helping us so much, Rob!