That is the easiest place to start. USB mics are just plug and play, plug them into your computer and it's just super easy to get

going. What are some of the price ranges for standard

USB mics? $5 up to maybe $300 or $400 now for like the top end ones. And like you get a $150 to $200 USB mike and 99% of people are never going to notice the difference between that and an $800. So like the step beyond that, like the professional stuff, they use an interface called XLR fancy. Rather than having a USB cable, it's got like a different type of cable that is more like traditionally used for music stuff. And in order to get it to work on your computer, you have to have an XLR interface which basically just takes that XLR cord from the mic and gives you a USB that you can then plug into your computer. So like the common thing you see now is a lot of people with the Shira-SM7B microphone and then like a cloud lifter interface. So you plug the mic into that and then you plug that cloud lifter into your computer. But as soon as you go XLR like you've got the headache of having a thing between the mic and the computer rather than just being able to plug it straight into the computer. And that's more than a lot of people want to fuss with. But if you're going super pro, like that's where you go eventually is more of the XLR stuff. And so I do have that. One nice thing about XLR hardware, if you are getting more fancy is you actually don't need a computer to record any of that stuff. So like when people are shooting films and like TV shows and stuff like that, you'll notice they're not all standing next to a computer. And that's because like all of the recording like can just happen on a little standalone device. With a little memory card. Yeah. So for example, like Zoom makes a bunch of these little devices where you can just plug the mic into that little device and it records it onto an SD card and you can run around with it and they have ones that are pretty small and that kind of untetherers you from the computer. I like it personally because like I don't have to be reliant upon the computer to manage the recording and all that. You just like it because you can leave your office if you need to and go grab something upstairs with that to unhook. Yeah. You know most production these days is done with lav mics, the little baby ones that like they have like you know clipped on a shirt color or something like that. And movies they'll have them you know taped to the actors chest generally. Either that or like buried in the costume in some way to where you can't see it. And those lav mics are just plugged into this little pack that they've got concealed you know on their back or something like

that. So we're in this

you know RV we're probably not going to go all crazy and go down to the store and expose ourselves in terms of. Until we do like a man on the street episode where you're like right talking with the people of automation town right or maybe going underground and like uncovering some secrets or something like that. You never know, Chet. Every point

like you could talk into the voice memo on your phone. It can be that good sometimes then you could just kind of help it with software at the end of the day. That's true. So talk to me about software. What kind of stuff can we use these days when we want to record a podcast when there's multiple people involved.

When you've got multiple people involved, you've got some web services for handling like getting everybody into a session together and recording all the media stuff like what is a squad cast, what are the other ones? Yeah, you got Riverside. Riverside. There's a few like that and it's basically like zoom but the audio files and if you want the video files are uploaded independently like when you're done recording after the fact. So like the importance of that is it's not subject to the quality of your internet connection. So like if you've got a bad connection and your video is glitching out what those programs enable is actually recording all that stuff locally in the highest quality possible. And then when the recording is done, it uploads those files to the service so that there's no loss in quality.