Blog Of Rick Pepper

Church Podcast Guide – Create a Sermon Podcast for your church
I’ll add one omission I see in this article and that is that your podcast does not need to be stereo, mono is fine, it’s speech… there’s nothing to pan. Every software (and iPod/MP3 player) knows to put the mono signal in both speakers, no worries. And it cuts the file size right in half – free lunch! Don’t be duped into doing stereo just so your intro music (if you use any) is in stereo… the message is the important part and mono will get it done perfectly fine. Another omission from the getting good signal section is dynamics compression, simply put; you need it like you need air if you’re going to do a podcast (of any kind involving speech) that will be tolerable to listen to in a variety of listening conditions/environments. If I remember I’ll append a photo of my (hardware) compressor setup to this post. See this article of mine on software [dynamics] compression.
As promised, see below photos of my compression settings on a Behringer Autocom Pro for our main speech mic (LX series Shure w/SM87 head), and a wide shot showing the 15 band graphic EQ channel that follows it in the signal chain (a Rane ME-15.)