Always Record One or Two Backup Recordings IN REAL TIME While You’re Recording Episodes

It’s risky to only record one copy of your audio when recording podcast episodes.

I was recently asked to try to fix some glitchy audio from a podcaster who had a VERY high profile guest. But the audio recording was skipping/gapping so badly it was 100% unusable. That’s right, throw it in the trash 🙁 When I asked if the backup recordings are also glitchy, I was informed that there are no backup recordings. Uh-oh. Well, tragically that’s an hour long interview with a high profile guest that is unpublishable. And have you ever tried messaging a recent guest saying that you lost their entire recording and you’d like to re-record it??!?! Yeah, no one is doing that.

So, when you’re recoding episodes, record a main recording and simultaneously record 1-2 backups so if the main recording fails you have a backup. And it’s not difficult to do.

Here are some examples of recordings you can make simultaneously (depending on your setup and situation):

1. Cloud recording using Riverside, Squadcast, Zencastr, Zoom, etc.
2. Local recording in your DAW or audio capture apps like Audio Hijack (Mac only), etc.
3. Record on your audio interface if it has recording capability like the RØDECaster Pro II or Sound Devices MixPre II, etc.
4. Record on any other app or hardware that you can record on.

My personal recording regimen when recording clients remotely was to record in Riverside, record in Audio Hijack, and record a combined stereo mix on my MixPre.

Do you record backups? Comment below!

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