Required · Step 3

Record

Capture clean audio from everyone, locally, one track per person.

What this step is

Get every voice recorded as cleanly as possible. Almost everything downstream is easier when the source is good.

The one rule

Record locally, one track per person. A call over Zoom or similar is fine for talking, but its recording is compressed and mixes everyone together. Each participant should record their own microphone on their own machine, and the tracks are combined afterwards.

What you need

• A microphone that is not a laptop’s built-in one. A modest USB mic is enough.
• A quiet room with soft surfaces. Curtains and a rug do more than an expensive mic.
• A way for each person to record locally and get the file to you.

Tools

Services like Riverside and Zencastr do local recording with background upload. Simple alternatives: everyone records with a free app (Audacity, QuickTime, Voice Memos) and uploads the file afterwards. Our Guest Recorder is a lightweight option for the guest side.