Podmas day 14 How to start a podcast part 3 What podcasting equipment do you need?

Before you go and spend a pretty penny on equipment, I would consider what you already have for free. Your smartphone has a recording app that you can start with, and there is also an app called anchor that uses your smartphones built-in microphone and records up to 2mins of audio, that you can directly post in the app.

Before you go and spend a pretty penny on equipment, I would consider what you already have for free. Your smartphone has a recording app that you can start with, and there is also an app called anchor that uses your smartphones built-in microphone and records up to 2mins of audio, that you can directly post in the app. It has features like commenting and different people that you can follow and build an online community.

If the phone isn't your thing, I would say get a mic that you plug into your computer; there are different kinds online for a variety of price brackets.

No, that you have something to record with you'll need somewhere to edit all your audio files, I suggest Audacity since it's free and works great.