New App offers Solutions for Remote Recording during COVID-19

For podcasters, the COVID-19 lockdown has created several technical challenges for production of a podcast. With co-hosting and guest interviews all forced to be remote recording sessions, podcasters have been challenged to find an adequate solution that provides them with the recording quality they feel their listeners deserve.

Large and well-financed podcast producers typically provide their own remote recording solutions but for the average podcaster working on a limited budget and struggling to monetize their audio, there is a remote recording solution.

A remote collaboration called Soundwhale allows for two separate channels of recording, for the interviewer and interviewee, so that they can be edited and treated separately. Soundwhale is not cloud-based, so there’s more stability and less latency compared to other popular remote solutions.

Soundwhale allows for two separate channels of recording, for the interviewer and interviewee, so that they can be edited and treated separately. Soundwhale is not cloud-based, so there’s more stability and less latency compared to other popular remote solutions.

If your podcast requires a shared media experience between hosts and guests, users can also add additional media (video/music files, etc) so they can see and hear the same thing during the recording. Hosts and interviewees can connect their audio interfaces and microphones for high quality uncompressed audio as well as route audio to and from their DAW using Soundwhale.

Some of Soundwhale's most distinctive features include communicating with audio, video, or text chat. Choose the quality of the stream that suits your connection. Record into a timeline containing other audio files or video. Organize and manage your takes and chat with your contacts, send requests, and read messages. Synchronize chat comments to your timeline. Connect with your contacts for audio or video streaming sessions.

In addition, users that don't have macOS or iOS can review creative work in Google Chrome. Simply go to the website, sign in, go to the session page, and receive the stream. Provide feedback through session chat.

Check out the Soundwhale app.

For podcasters with limited resources, Soundwhale can help with the remote recording problems created by the need to social distance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Tyler Volkmar of Soundwhale, "with quarantine still in effect for many, those who host or participate in the creation of podcasts are strapped for remote recording solutions. Remote audio collaboration app Soundwhale has solutions even beyond basic multi-channel remote recording that make it the perfect podcast companion during lockdown."