Techniques for Recording Podcasts?

This is more of a recording issue. I'm trying to get some ideas on getting a more professional sounding casts setup. We are currently working on a music and movie review site and I want to kind of be somewhat different and have a weekly casting show kinda like blogtalk radio where we can discuss movies and music with people that call in. We're still testing out the idea and did a few tests broadcast but the problem is on our end audio just comes out kind of noisy and fuzzy. We did a recording test and everything sounded fine when we just record audio straight into the computer but when we do live tests it's like the microphone starts picking up everything on our end. We have 2 mics that we use a Yeti and an Nt1a with the M-audio fast track. I invested into getting some decent mics and interface but room pickup is a bit of a problem now. Someone else suggested using a filter like one of these Soundkitz AE-F filters http://www.soundkitz.com/Studio.htm or trying something like padding up the room. Our recording area is my apartments living room it's the only place all of us can fit. Like I said it doesn't seem to be a signal issue it seems to do more with the room but that's the part that has me in a jam. We can always try to clean up audio afterwards but that's really extra work than we don't need right now.
Thankz

No - it's a standalone program (written in Java): you have to have a recording to place in it and then clean it up. I agree this is less convenient than a plugin but the results - particularly when combined with its companion ClickRepair - can be stunning: only marginally inferior to the industry standard CEDAR (which costs thousands).
Here is an example of both of them in use on a very crackly 78rpm record - starting with the original and crossfading to the cleaned-up version.
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/noise/companions.mp3
However looking at the OP's post it looks as if his problem may be more to do with room acoustics, and noise reduction isn't going to help that - it's designed for continuous hiss and noise, not reverberation. If he posted a link to the recording it might be possilble to assess the problem.

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