Welcome to the pillow fort

This was my dream microphone and it took me years to buy it. I wasn't sure I could make it work because it requires some amplification. But I love the warm sound of the microphone. Once I bought it, there was no looking back.

My laptop might actually be the most important part of gear. I do all the podcast work on this laptop. This one is a Macbook Pro 16 inch with an Apple chip M1 MAX and 32GB of memory. It's a few years old now and will some day (soon) need a very expensive replacement. No laptop, no podcast... I cross my fingers every day that is keeps up with me for a bit longer!

Gifted by Linda

Turns the microphone signal into something my laptop understands through USB. One of those things I set up once and then never try to touch again.

It's a chair. It's pretty cold and hard, but it will do :) On the chair, I always keep my grandma's coat. It makes me feel close to her.

I don't have a studio so I need to work with sound panels to make the walls sound softer.

The single-channel preamp that gives the SM7B some of its clean gain, with a de-esser and compressor that bring the sound of the podcast closer to that warm, up-close style I love so much.

This is where the pillow fort is not really a pillow fort right now. To be honest, I share the room with my cat, Bodhi and a bunch of stuff that needs to be sorted. (Read: it's a mess. But a mess sure absorbs sound!) I'd love to make it a place that resembles this dream pillow fort one day. I'm thinking pillows, more sound panels, some nice lights and maybe blankets hanging all around me to make it warmer, more sound absorbing and cozier!

I use an old pair of Bowers & Wilkins headphones. They're broken on one side, but they still work well enough to use as monitoring headphones. For now, this will do! I love the sound of Bowers & Wilkins headphones! Unfortunately, I can't buy new ones t replace these, because they keep using leather for the ear pads (and I don't want to buy leather anymore) and a monitoring headphones needs a wire. Wires are out of fashion!