I'm starting to use (and learn about) my new podcasting equipment. I partially used it yesterday - I used the new mic through the mixer, but I had the gain turned up too high (and generated some hum as a result. I've been experimenting with it today, and figured out what I was doing wrong.

Anyway, it looks like I should be getting better results as I go along (not next week though - I used the handheld digital recorder to record my interview (and this was before I got the mixer anyway). Anyhow, here's a shot of mixer and the hookups there:

That's the new Mic, going through the mixer. The cables snake across my desk to the input on the Mac, and I record via GarageBand:

The white kind of bleeds out there, but those are RCA cables running over to the iMic. The headset is there, jacked into the PC, so that I can hear the people on the phone, and get my voice out through skype. I'm sure practice will help with all of this. And yes, it is a messy office :)