Welcome to the podcast series of the COMMUNITY OF 5 PODCAST.
This is a supplement to the COMMUNITY OF FIVE program from Paul Colligan within his facebook environment.
We will have a sharing environment where we will post hints, tips, tricks, techniques and information to help us all become better podcasters–including reviews of products and services, as well as interviews with those involved in specialties of the podosphere.

In this episode of COMMUNITY OF 5 PODCAST, we take a brief look during a review of the portable mic for the mobile podcaster or interviewer with the Samson go-mic.
This is NOT a portable recorder, but a portable microphone that connects via USB cable from the mic directly to your laptop or computer, so that you, as a podcaster, can record directly into your audio recording software (like Audacity).
As you will hear in the audio podcast, this mic is small, yet sturdy; it is portable and mobile, yet powerful enough to compete with the low-end USB microphones, as well.

It also has a good price point (you can check on Amazon.com for the latest prices at
http://www.amazon.com/Samson-Mic-Compact-USB-Microphone/dp/B001R76D42/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1280459125&sr=8-1
And if you want to get first impressions when initially released, I myself did a 5-minute review of the mic for Dave Jackson’s SCHOOL OF PODCASTING podcast episode 116 on May 3, 2010. You can get it from either the iTunes directory (School of Podcasting – Learn to Podcast) or from his web site at www.schoolofpodcasting.com.
In future episodes of COMMUNITY OF 5 PODCAST, we plan to have:
- an interview with an audio podcaster with his own podcast and new media network, where we will see how he can give us hints on how to get better audio and smaller mp3 files by tweaking a few of the Audacity settings;
and
- a comparison and contrast review of the Zoom portable recorders–including the Zoom H1, H2, H4, H4N and Q3.
Thank you for your support, and welcome aboard to the supplement podcast for Paul Colligan’s COMMUNITY OF FIVE in facebook.
If you want to provide feedback, feel free to send an email to:
CommunityOf5Podcast @ gmail.com (to prevent spam).
Thank you so much for your interest, and welcome aboard to helping the podcast content PRODUCERS!
Sincerely,
Fred Castaneda
Podcaster, with 12 podcast series now