10 podcast tips to a great sound

Sharon Housley, marketing manager for FeedForAll, software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds has come up with ten top tips for improving your podcasts.

These include:

1. Buy a good microphone
2. Keep your mouth at a consistent distance (a headset may produced better results than a standalone for this reason)
3. Use voice inflections to engage the listener
4. Add background music
5. Use editing software to remove pauses, mistakes and extraneous noise
6. Avoid too much background noise by choosing where to make a recording carefully
7. Make a pracise recording to check your levels
8. Divide long recordings into short sections for easier editing
9. Add transitions between the different segments of your podcast
10. Establish a format and be consistent

Check them out here.