re: Any podcasters here?

For the love of all things holy PLEASE put up some sound absorption panels in the space you are recording in. Too many beginning podcasters sound like they recorded in an oil drum. Room treatment is even more important than the mic choice. While you don't want the room too dead you want to significantly reduce the reverb. Especially for male voices you don't want to use the cheap low density foam eggcrate sold everywhere. You want to use something like rock wool or Owens Corning 703. You can make it into cheap DIY absorption panels and there are tons of videos on how to DIY them. The farther south you are the harder and more expensive OC 703 are to find. Owens Corning Thermafiber Fire and Sound Gaurd is available almost everywhere and relatively cheap. I would suggest the 3.5" R15 batts which have good absorption coefficients down in the make voice frequency range. It would be nice to have some dispersion too but that can come later, absorption is critical.