podcasting to Youtube with iPhone and Mac.

Hi all.

If this needs to be moved, let me know, but considering it covers both Mac and iPhone, it didn't seem right to put it in any of the OS specific forums.

I'm thinking of doing a podcast on Garage Band on iOS and Mac. People keep asking for stuff on it, and there doesn't seem to be anything, and nobody else has done it yet. Apologies to logic.band, they do have some getting started stuff for Garage Band on Mac. But it's all text.

I also might expand the podcast later to just some of the weird instruments I own, but it will pretty much work the same way. So here's my thought for basic setup.

In front of me is a Mac Mini. On top of the mac Mini is a Yeti microphone. If I want to record with it, I can hook the iPhone up to the Mac and have it record the sound of the iPhone, as I understand it. That should be pretty straightforward, relatively speaking, although if anybody's got tips for doing it all on the phone, that would be cool too. Doing iOS stuff entirely in iOS would be pretty nice. I assume once I have audio, I need to convert it to video for Youtube, upload it, and put it in a playlist.

I'm not sure how to do that, the video conversion that is, I can figure out playlists, so if anybody's got ideas, I'd love to know. Also any basic tips for audio setup would be cool. I have an Audient Evo16 interface, which has loopback, but honestly, the more I can get away from the computer, if that's what I want to do, the better. Anybody doing a podcast entirely on the phone? I'd love to hear about it.

People *say* things like, you can just use your phone to podcast, but then it basically turns into, but really you want better sound quality so get this microphone or that field recorder or ... On the one hand, yeah, I can probably do that. OTOH, I just want to do some podcasts of me working through Garage Band and figuring things out, if I can, to help people start working with it. I don't really need to throw money at something like that, I don't think.

I might also try expanding to other iOS music things, because I'm interested in seeing what we can do. I feel like it's a field people keep asking about, and the most I hear is, "oh yeah I messed with that and did a song once". Maybe it will turn out you can't do a lot with something like GB on a phone, or it will be really hard to figure out how to record working with audio in something like Ferrite. I mean i"m pretty dumb and I haven'treally sat down and worked it all out yet, so we'll all be going on a journey together, how exciting!

GB on the Mac is sort of an afterthought, I've been doing some stuff with it and people seem to want a podcast on that too, so why not, if I can get it all set up? To be clear, I can blather, look at this novel I'm writing, and I get recording and editing and all, or at least, I can figure it out. I'm just looking for some basic mechanics help on A. setting up a podcast, and B. how to record, i.e. if I'm trying to do everything on the phone, can I record Garage Band recording something else and then editing it or whatever?

I know there are some pretty cool apps for the phone like Backpack Studio, but they seem more focused on speech and adding music bits and guests, not necessarily recording how other programs that also manipulate audio work.