Using Skype to Record a Podcast Interview

Today I had the privilege of interviewing Flemming Madsen, founder of Onalytica who collaborated with Market Sentinel and Immediate Future to compose the white paper that I posted about last week.

As is often the case with research papers and the general public, some members of the blogosphere (including me - see the aforementioned post) and the mainstream media misinterpreted the results of the study. During our interview, Flemming was able to clarify many of those points - so stay tuned for that podcast.

Another interesting element of this podcast is how it was recorded. For the other podcasts I’ve been working on, we used FreeConference.com to record telephone conferences onto .mp3s. But since Flemming is located in London and would have to dial internationally to reach the conference calling number, we decided to use Skype and GarageBand to record our conversation.

The sound quality was a little patchy in places, and I’m going to have to do some serious volume boosting of Flemming’s portion of the conversation before the podcast will be ready to air - but for the practical purposes of capturing content - the conversation came through loud and clear. This may be an option for podcasters who want to record interviews with far-away subjects without taking out a second mortgage.