When I was younger I thought that life looked very bleak.
I didn’t want to be an office slave or tethered to a desk all the time. I wanted to help people, but I wanted to do it all on my own terms. I surely never thought I would be independently employed while making a difference in people’s lives. But it’s happened, largely due to a podcast that I made. To this day, podcasting is one of the most important things that I do every day. Unfortunately, there are some start-up costs to doing it well. Quickly, I realized that my heating, cooling, and air quality control system needed to be upgraded rapidly in order for my podcast sound quality to be clear and crisp. I heard early on that there was unfortunate interference on my recordings from the central heating, cooling, and ventilation system turning on and off during the lengthy recording of my episodes. At first, the sound of the AC running in the background was fairly subtle. But then, my cooling system started to get louder with wear and tear over the summer. That’s when my listeners started to complain about the poor sound quality. Then, I did not have cash to invest in expensive heating, cooling, and ventilation machinery and professional HVAC appointments. So, instead, I thought it would be a good idea to build a separate studio which could be without any heating, cooling, and air quality control equipment sounds. Unfortunately this natural air quality control situation wasn’t working out. I got so sweaty during recordings that listeners could hear me choking on humid air. That’s when I finally figured it out and got a mini split ductless HVAC system. The thing is so small and silent that it even works for recording podcasts in a shed.