[jakewalker]

I am curious about how Dan gets such great recordings from his co-hosts, who are remote. I'd have thought they record audio natively then upload him a high quality audio file with time sync, but then I remembered that he does these shows live, so that can't possibly be how it works.

[hivelogic]

The 5by5 studio, though small, is pretty complicated (and unfortunately kind of expensive) to setup. We record all but 1 of our shows live, and edit them all before releasing them.

I'm planning on doing either another post or perhaps a video about the setup (assuming there's interest).

[ichilton]

Excellent - I'd be interested in that!

[jakewalker]

Would definitely be interested.

[netnichols]

I'm also always shocked by how consistently good the audio is, especially since as far as I know they're just using Skype. Hard to believe considering my own experiences using Skype. I always seem to get lots of of audio glitches from the software/connection (on very standard 6,000 kBit/s DSL connections), so I'd love to hear how he minimizes that.

[petercooper]

Just because some shows are streamed live too doesn't mean there's not necessarily any editing for the podcast version.

I can't speak for Dan's other shows but I co-host The Ruby Show which was on 5by5 until recently and we record separately and then edit them together. No particular time syncing beyond recording at the same time though.