I manage (produce?) four podcasts for people I know, as well as myself. It’s a small scale and by no means needs to best of the best equipment, but we do care about quality.
For myself personally, I travel to people’s homes or meet in public and record on location. Having the audio immediately go into a cloud is super helpful and reassuring that if I lose my recording device (iPad for example), I will still be able to access the audio. I do record on my iPad and prefer to edit that way as well, but can edit on desktop if needed.
Nomono is appealing because it’s simple. Record with their mics, in their app, and use their enhance feature and you’re close to done with an episode. However, you cannot use their mics with anything else. You’re locked into their platform. Their mics pick up everything. It feels like a gimmick because my fan across the room is picked up very well and my voice is quiet, but once I apply the enhance my voice is magical and the background noise is gone. While I understand the mics may be designed to pick up all sound equally, it just feels gimmicky that they do and you basically *have* to use their enhance feature to improve the audio AND that the enhance feature is limited to a certain number of hours a month. You can add more, but it’s costly.
Rode Wireless Pro’s work with just about anything and are cheaper. I haven’t personally used them yet, but from doing some research they seem to cut background noise well and may not require *as much* enhancement. Like I said, I haven’t used them yet so I can’t say too much. With Rode, I would just have to find a platform/service that works well for what I’m looking for. Currently that seems to be riverside as I can record via an app on my iPad and it will go to their cloud- but I’ve heard Riverside is lacking on the customer service side of things. I’ve also heard of Ferrite but they do not have a cloud.
I’m looking for personal experience or more experienced opinions. If there’s advice regarding what services to use with the Rode’s and work on an iPad, that would be great. I want to love Nomono and in a way I do, I just can’t seem to get past it feeling like a money grab. But perhaps I am missing something, or the point with Nomono, and the pricing is actually fair and worth it. I’m not sure.
ETA- Upon further research it looks like I can easily record via Zencastr on an iPad and the audio will be uploaded to the cloud. Experiences with this?