> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Reflections on one year of podcasting - URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/one-year-podcasting/ - Published: 2022-05-27T13:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2023-11-16T01:03:03.000Z - Description: I knew nothing about audio. Random intros change everything. - Author: Will Chernoff - Tags: Subscriber Fridays The Rhythm Changes [podcast](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/podcast) turned one year old on Tuesday, May 24, 2022\. Here are the three biggest things I'm taking away from this first year of podcasting. ## 1) I knew nothing about audio When I started, I didn't have any of the skills that you need to make a podcast sound good. None. **I learned only by doing**. There's no better way to reflect on that than this guided tour of four brutally-honest audio clips. This first one – recorded over a year ago – is from [episode 2, featuring Ilhan Saferali](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/ilhan-saferali-jazz-adolescence-s-1-ep-2/): 1\. Bad USB mic, first time ever recording 0:00 /5.35501 1× --- Next – about three months in – from [episode 6, featuring David Blake](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/david-blake-the-tangent-cafe-era-s-1-ep-6/): 2\. Proper mic, but still no skills 0:00 /5.407254 1× --- Then – about six months in – from [episode 20, featuring Jonathan Baylis](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/jonathan-baylis-learning-to-improvise-ep-20/): 3\. Beginner audio production 0:00 /6.00806 1× --- And now – recorded this week – from my trailer for [Jazz Office Hours](https://www.jazzofficehours.com/?utm%5Fsource=rcu&utm%5Fcontent=1), a new podcast that Cory Weeds and I will launch this year: 4\. What I can do now 0:00 /9.221066 1× --- Just want to keep improving, that's all. ## 2) Outlasting my influences When I started the podcast, I looked up to and learned from all the other Vancouver/BC music interview podcasts I could find. There was [Pacific Sound Radio](https://open.spotify.com/show/1sPF93wrJBSyMzpRRqzV1E?si=0e5d86c3aa8143b0&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [The JPod](https://open.spotify.com/show/5LMpwz0vGPBsj59JcJQoDr?si=f666b5d9fb654f0a&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [Make a Scene Canada](https://open.spotify.com/show/16ChwcmILPlPCxiCirvqt6?si=0028293599e44365&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [ArtsNW](https://open.spotify.com/show/2QjBmUltfUL1b1r0agfura?si=d211e8ea6b5a4ffd&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [The FM Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/1Uoobn83uYaHUMlvpqgNa0?si=8c8a66fd91284824&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [Resonant Rest](https://open.spotify.com/show/44sCrjcMFTc4gUnpXdc0xB?si=805c59b9196847db&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [BandChat with Royal Oak](https://open.spotify.com/show/10DW80j3P5PGIYXwDd4UOB?si=799ddeca3dff4593&ref=rhythmchanges.ca), [The Quadcast Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/2eEaQrgLP1Ry2fSpvZgiOW?si=fffbf621bb414aca&ref=rhythmchanges.ca)... ***None* of those podcasts are active now.** Though some will return, most are on what looks like indefinite hiatus. I didn't think it would only take one year. *Some interesting updates from the future: In late 2022 I became a partner in a newly-relaunched Pacific Sound Radio. I guess I really missed that show!* ## 3) Pretty much every guest says the same thing after recording ends They say, "Wow, I feel like I rambled a lot..." or, "**Sorry I talked so much...**" And I always say, "No! That's what this is for – it's about you!" This fascinates me. I think it's because we don't get many chances to put our cares away and **talk at length about what we love to do**, for even just the 30-minutes' runtime of my show. If that's what the Rhythm Changes Podcast is about, I'm grateful for it. ### Bonus bullet points of random, more nerdy reflections - What my acquaintances most often ask me as a small-talk question these days is, **"So how's the podcast?"** The brand of doing this podcast seems to have stuck with me more than other things – to a much larger degree than the podcast's small listenership would suggest. I'm ambivalent about this, grateful for the attention it earns while also wondering if it's doing a disservice to the website. - **There's ten times more enthusiasm available to your speaking voice** than you'd think. Every episode along the way, I thought I had energy. I did not and have kept finding more. - **My publicist-pitched episodes are weak**. I don't take guests cold from publicists anymore; doing articles on them works better. You can probably look and figure out which past episodes those are, if curious. - **You don't need lots of listeners to get sponsors**. You just need to show the sponsor how you're an alternative to the grind of promotional work to some extent. - **I have an episode finished, recorded over 5 months ago**, and the album's not out yet. *\[This episode is out now, detectives – go find it...\]* - **I'll never say my favourite episode(s)**. But feel free to ask me anything else!