None of this is required — we work with what you have. But a few small habits make a big difference in the finished episode.
One track per player is the single biggest upgrade you can give us. It lets us balance every voice individually, fix one person's echo without touching anyone else, and place your party in stereo — like sitting around a real table. If you can only do one thing from this page, do this.
Discord and Zoom compress audio to save bandwidth — that compression is permanent. If each player records themselves on their own machine (even with the built-in voice recorder) and sends us the files, we get the full, uncompressed sound of their voice. It sounds harder than it is: press record at the start, stop at the end.
You don't need studio gear. Roughly in order of impact:
If your party plays on Discord, a recording bot like Craig can capture every speaker on a separate track automatically — invite it to your channel, start recording, and forget about it. That gives us multi-track audio with zero effort from your players. Whatever tool you use, do a 30-second test recording before session one.
Playing on Foundry or Roll20? Keep voice chat in Discord and record there — it's more reliable than in-browser audio. And if you can, send us a few screenshots of your maps and tokens along with the recording; they help us follow the action and make great episode artwork references.
Send us a short sample — we'll tell you honestly what we can do with it.