One scenario that will stress you out A LOT is when you have to rush to setup your equipment because you have to call your guest on Skype in 1 minute!
Good advice: Start setting up for your recording sessions well in advance of the session start time. Give yourself time to gracefully and deliberately turn everything on, set up your computer programs, adjust hardware, verify that you see levels, etc.
And if you’re all set up and still have 5-10 minutes before your session starts, you can relax, use the bathroom, and reflect a bit on the content of the conversation.
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You should have a pre-recording checklist that you run through before every recording because audio settings have a nasty habit of changing themselves all on their own like inputs and bitrates. If you have a checklist it makes that set-up process much less stressful and a lot more bulletproof.
Great points, Jason – thanks!