How do you record, edit and save your podcast?

• Plug in your microphone. Most microphones are plugged into the USB port.
  
• Open your Garage Band software, it is the guitar icon on your dock, usually at the bottom of your computer screen. A screen will open with four choices. You want to select 'Create New Podcast Episode'. The next widow to open will be New Project Template, this is where you will name your podcast. Name your podcast and notice that it attaches .band after your name. This is the file extension for Garage Band. Hit the create button and you are now in the Garage Band software. On the tracks at the left hand side, select the track for the male or female voice. When you are ready to record, select the round button with the red dot in the center and start talking. To stop the recording, select the single arrow on the controls, just to the right of the record button. To hear your recording, drag the red line back to the beginning of the recording by selecting the downward arrow at the top of the red line, holding down your mouse button and dragging it to the beginning. Press the single arrow on the controls to listen to your recording.
• Editing your recording can be done in the lower part of the window. If you want to delete a part of the recording, select the part of the recording you want to delete and slide your mouse until you have all that you want to erase. This can take lots of practice and many times of listening the the record. There are many features that go with editing. I suggest that you just start to play with the software. Trail and error are the best teachers.
  
• Saving your podcast, is really quite simple as long as you know what format to save it in. If you just save your podcast, it will be saved in the .band format, which can only be opened in Garage Band. Go ahead and do this, but you will need to export the recording as an MP3 file to upload to the Internet for others to gain access. One of the top pull down windows in Garage Band is Share. Select Share and then select Export Song to Disk... A window will pop-up and you will need to check Compress and select MP3 Encoder for Compress Using. Leave High Quality for Audio Setting. Then select Export and place the file where you can find it on your computer.
• So now on to the next post on how to get my podcast on the Internet.