Is It Time to Re-Record My Intro?

When you start podcasting, you're going to find out and there's no way around this, that episode 10 is better than episode one, you just get better. And that's a good thing. Except we often forget one little thing. And today, when I point this out, you're gonna go Oh, yeah. And the good news is, it's super easy to fix.

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When you first start off, you don't know anything about microphone technique. You may be a little worried about, hey, is this podcasting thing? Really for me? So you buy a really cheap microphone, or maybe you're even hopefully not using the microphone on your camera, which always sounds horrible. And off, you go to the races. And the good news is, that you found something you're passionate about. You organize your thoughts, you put out an episode, and everything is going great. And one of the things you did was you created an intro. You just heard mine with a guide. Now, he wants to be your that guy, right? So I have that intro well, many times, instead of having someone else's voice, we use our voice and really, tomato tomahto. I think it's kind of cool to have somebody else's voice. But the beautiful thing of podcasting is, that it's your show, it can be whatever you want.

However, that intro was used with, you guessed it, that really cheap microphone, it was created by the person who didn't know anything about mic technique yet. And that person probably didn't know anything about EQ or post production. And well, in a second, we're gonna hear how that sounds.

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So like I said, the good news is you started your podcast, and hopefully not but if you're using the microphone on your camera, or you don't know how to use a microphone, so it's a good four feet away from your mouth and things like that. And maybe you're not really skilled when it comes to mixing in music. So your intro kind of sounds like this. Hey, welcome to the blah, blah, blah show where we help you blah, blah, blah. So that you can, yada yada, yada. And that's your intro. And then all of a sudden, when you come in, now, with your new skills, you sound like this, Hey, welcome to the blah, blah, blah show where we help you yada yada, yada. And of course that music was way too loud.

So this is not the end of the world. You don't have to go back and replace all the episodes unless you have the time to do that. But what you do is you go back and you have your intro, you can script this out if you want, and you just redo it and from this point forward, your intro audio quality should match your episode quality when you actually start to talk to the audience. And it sounds something like this. Welcome to the blah, blah, blah show where we help you yada yada, yada, then then you go into the show. Notice that the volume isn't too loud now. And when I go into the rest of the show, and the music fades out, I sound like this. There's no like, Hey, why does this sound different than that?

And again, some might say I'm nitpicking. I'm just here to say I hear this all the time. And I'm like, Wait, what happened? Did they go from recording in their bathroom to recording the in their closet? Something has happened that the audio has changed and this is just a super easy organ to put up air quotes mistake to avoid it something That doesn't distract your audience to go, Hey, what just happened? Everything sounds the same. Now you might be asking yourself, Well, Dave, I don't even have music for my intro. That's perfectly fine. You don't have to have an intro with music. There are many people that just start off and they say, Hey, I'm Steve. Welcome to the Yeti. Yeti, Yeti. Yep, yep, yep, show. And today, we're going to talk about blank and they go right into it. I'm just saying if you've gone through, and you've made an intro with music, and explaining what your show is, and what you're going to talk about, etc, etc. Go back and listen to it and then listen to how you sound. And if it's really different, like, wow, I sound a whole lot bass ear, or whatever it is, try to make that transition from your pre recorded intro to you to where it doesn't sound any different. Now, for me, I think an intro should do the following things. One, introduce the show. So people know what the show is about. If you have any kind of street cred, and you want to throw that in. Definitely Introduce yourself. And then lastly, introduce what's in the episode today.

And I cannot state this enough, then get to the content, like get to whatever you just said, today we're going to talk about fixing your intro, then get to talking about fixing your intro. So many people love to have a little chit chat and wait to hear what my cat did. And oh, I've got this great French toast recipe. I know we're going to talk about microphones in a second. But let's first talk no nobody's tuning in to hear about your french toast recipe. And here's the other thing I want to point out when you said all you need to say move on to either the next segment or end the episode. This episode was about having you look at your pre recorded intro that you did a while ago to see hey, does that sound just as good as I sound now with my new skills I've said all I need to say and consequently, I'm ending the episode now. So if you would like some help starting a podcast, if you need to grow your podcast, come out and visit me at podcast consultants.com I look forward to working with you