Helen ZaltzmanInterview
Podcaster (The Allusionist, Answer Me This)
Adapted from Helen Zaltzman's interview on Uses This, published 15 June 2017. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
13" MacBook Pro, a couple of years old, slightly dented.
The earphones I use while editing audio are Superlux HD-662, which are cheap but way better than any other kind I've tried for hearing every horrid little flaw in my edit.
The earphones I favour for listening to podcasts are Skullcandy Jib noise-isolating earbuds.
Communication
Being a podcaster is a solitary existence much of the time, so Slack is where most of my social interaction takes place.
Productivity
Media
I edit my shows on Logic Pro X.
Izotope plugins - the Dialogue De-Noiser is actually magic.
When I'm interviewing people, I'm paranoid that my Zoom recording will conk out, so I record a backup on my phone, using iTalk.
I use the Apple Podcasts app, which is glitchy but I'm too far down that road to turn back now.
Storage
I use Google Drive for writing, spreadsheets, presentation slides, creating graphics...
Other
Trint to transcribe interviews - then you can click on a piece of the text and it'll play you that part of the sound file, or vice versa.