Mike Russell

iPhone

positive

“Hello there, this is Mike speaking into my iPhone. Yes, I can record a good quality video just like this with a tiny microphone in my hand that is battery powered and rechargeable.”

RØDE PSA1+ boom arm

$139.00 · first cited October 2026

“Rode PSA1+ boom arm”

Shure SM7B

$439.00 · Mixed — said both good and bad

“Chat GPT defaults to the Shure SM7B. And I've got to be honest, whilst it's a great microphone, we use it here, it doesn't constitute the most practical setup for every single person and complete beginners.”

DT 1990 PRO MK II

$699.99 · first cited September 2026 · positive

“3. What I use - DT 1990 PRO, the pro version of both, at a premium price”

“The noise isolation on the DT275 Pros are incredible.”

Elgato Key Light

$199.00 · first cited October 2026

“Elgato Key Light Neo”

Adobe Premiere Pro

Mixed — said both good and bad

“Adobe Premiere has a preset called YouTube 2160p 4K Ultra HD. I just looked at it properly for the first time and I think it's been broken for the last six or seven years.”

“I can actually just drag and drop the video I recorded earlier here, and you'll see within moments the video gets uploaded to Adobe Podcast like so.”

Adobe Photoshop

positive

“I've actually upscaled using the generative upscale in Adobe Photoshop to make them look a bit better, although this one is rather pixelated.”

Photoshop on the web

positive

“So, I can click open in Photoshop, and look at this. It's opened up Photoshop on the web.”

Riverside 2.0 (AI Producer)

strongly positive

“Tool two is the tool I've been using the most since it launched. Riverside just shipped their 2.0 release and the headline feature is something they call AI producer.”

Adobe Audition

strongly positive

“You open up something like Adobe Audition's multitrack, which is right over here next to waveform, and you get all the tracks stacked up like this and you have full control over each one.”

“If I type something like a desk with a microphone and we'll select the latest Firefly image five for this, let's generate it.”

ElevenLabs

cited in 2 videos · strongly positive

“Now, this one I generated earlier with Eleven Labs music V2 is pretty awesome. It's got a rising intro that I can talk over as a podcast intro [music] and then it really kicks in for the start of my podcast.”

Firefly AI Assistant

strongly positive

“And second, it's the Firefly AI assistant. This is the conversational way to work. Instead of clicking through tools yourself, you just chat with it.”

Otter.ai

Mixed — said both good and bad

“As you can see from my Otter account, I've been using this a while.”

Riverside Magic Audio

strongly positive

“Back to Riverside for tool four, and yes, I know some of you have heard me mention Magic Audio before, but stay with me because the 2.0 version is a different animal. And it remains the single feature I recommend the most to podcasters.”

Veo 3.1 fast

Mixed — said both good and bad

“But just for fun, let me run the exact same photo through a flashier partner model, VEO 3.1 fast.”

Gemini

strongly positive

“It's called Gemini Omni. Now, I'm going to use Adobe Firefly board, generate video right here.”

Kling 3.0

positive

“Now, for generating video, I'm going to use Kling 3.0. It's a pretty good reference model and I've used the reference image here of me standing at Moho and drive.”

Nano Banana Pro

positive

“Now, with that added, I can click generate and I'm using Nano Banana, I can maybe do two different generations there that will start immediately.”

“This time I'll use GPT image 2. We'll go for the wide and we'll go for the medium quality here.”

Riverside Co-Creator

strongly positive

“Tool six and the latest of the Riverside trio is Co-Creator. It's an awesome AI assistant to help you make short edits, create thumbnails, and make shorts.”

Google Docs

first cited August 2026

“Turn the episode's transcript into a newsletter draft in my Google Docs.”

Riverside

cited in 15 videos · strongly positive

“The fix is actually local recording. Record on a platform that's actually built for this, and I use Riverside. It records each person locally in full quality on their own device and then uploads after.”

“Get the exact sound effects and audio production elements I use here”

Buzzsprout

cited in 2 videos · strongly positive

“So, in this video, I'll walk you through the full workflow using Buzzsprout, one of the platforms with this Apple Podcasts video integration built right in.”

Apple Podcasts

positive

“We can connect it to Apple Podcasts.”

Mac

negative

“And because the whole thing actually runs inside your web browser, your footage lives online instead of swallowing your hard drive, and I know that I get the constant Mac out of memory thing.”

Google Drive

first cited August 2026

“If I actually look in my account at connectors, you'll see I've got Google Drive connected as well.”