Chris Curran

Recording Multiple Voices on One Track

Don’t do it. That is all. But seriously, don’t do it. Instead, record each podcast participant on their own track/file so that you have the ability in post-production to clean up, process and optimize each person’s voice separately. Do you really want to hear Joe’s dog barking in the background

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Repair Assistant in iZotope RX 10

RX 10’s Repair Assistant helps you clean up your raw audio. The handy “Learn” button creates a custom module/processor chain for your audio. It scans your audio and suggests custom amounts of optimization in each of the following modules: De-ess, De-click, De-reverb, De-noise and De-clip. Then you can preview the

Read More »

Neutron 4 from iZotope – A Channel Strip on Steroids

Neutron 4 has so many modules within it including EQ, compressor, gate, exciter, transient shaper, sculptor and unmask. This complete mixing suite costs around $399. Probably the most helpful feature for podcasters, editors and producers is its Mix Assistant which evaluates your source audio and then dials in suggested EQ/compression/etc.

Read More »

Top 3 Reasons Remote Podcast Guests Sound Bad, and How to Avoid All 3!

Remote podcast guests don’t know what they don’t know, so it’s our responsibility to soundcheck them and train them before starting the recording session to ensure we capture good audio from them.  Here are 3 common occurrences which ruin remote guests’ audio quality:  Noisy Background — Fans, air conditioners, noisy

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dbx 286s – Podcasting’s Most Popular Channel Strip Processor

The dbx 286s is a relatively inexpensive piece of audio gear that solves many issues for podcasters, Livestreamers and YouTubers. Issues it solves: Low volume / not enough preamp gain (It has plenty of preamp gain to boost up gain-hungry microphones like the Shure SM7b, etc.) EQ issues like not

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Realphones by dSONIQ (Headphone Monitoring Tool)

The Realphones app/plugin makes your headphone audio sound like it’s coming through the expensive monitoring system of a high end recording studio control room. Some folks feel this can be useful with regard to producing good mixes. Others disagree. *NOTE: *In my opinion* apps/plugins like Realphones (or Sonarworks, Waves Abbey

Read More »

RØDE Wireless GO II (Wireless Transmitter and Recorder)

I’ve heard good things about the RODE Wireless GO II. It’s a wireless transmitter AND recorder in one. And it doesn’t require any cables like a clip-on lavalier microphone does. You clip it on to your clothing as close to your mouth as you can manage and it will pick

Read More »

Generally Matching the Amount of Compression on Each Participant

It’s difficult to mix two podcast participants’ voices if one is wildly dynamic and the other is consistent and/or already compressed: The consistent and/or compressed voice will sound up front and intelligible the entire time; loud parts won’t be too loud and lower volume parts won’t be too low. The

Read More »

BOOM (Audio Interface) by Apogee *NEW*

The BOOM is a new audio interface from Apogee. Check out Bandrew’s exhaustive demo and review: Apogee Boom Interface Review / Explained Here’s some info and specs of the unit: 2×2 USB Type-C Audio interface with Built-In Hardware DSP FX BOOM is made for passionate creators that pursue their creativity

Read More »

I’m Bangin’ Out YouTube Videos Now!!! (On Podcast Audio Production)

I’m posting lots of videos these days discussing podcast audio production. Watch the videos here: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw1z9z8ikRabXA4zku88w5A Odysee — https://odysee.com/@PodcastEngineeringSchool:5 Rumble — https://rumble.com/c/c-1329674 Most of the videos are like my Daily Goody blog posts — quick, simple, etc. Please give me feedback — I’m hoping to improve 😉

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Does Your Podcast Audio Need a Haircut? (Limiting)

By “haircut” I mean Limiting! *See the image above showing a nice straight “haircut”; the loudest peaks have been “tamed”. Limiters basically chop off any loud sharp pointy peaks in audio, and they do so without causing clipping distortion (unless you’re doing extreme limiting). Be careful: If a raw audio

Read More »

Announcement: I’ve Started Making Short Daily Videos

I’m now making short daily videos and you can watch them on: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/c/PodcastEngineeringSchool/ Odysee — https://odysee.com/@PodcastEngineeringSchool:5 Rumble — https://rumble.com/c/c-1329674 *KEEP IN MIND that these videos are similar to my Daily Goody posts in that they are only a tiny little tip, fact or lesson everyday. Please don’t expect any

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Mistakes I’ve Made Producing Podcasts – PES 239

Today I’m going to discuss some mistakes I’ve made producing podcasts. Microphone: In this episode I’m using my Electro-Voice RE320 microphone plugged into my Neve Portico II channel strip (using compression, EQ and a bit of saturation). The same microphone you see in my daily short videos here. I mention

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Clarity Vx from Waves (Revolutionary AI Noise Removal Plugin)

For around $35.99 the Clarity Vx plugin from Waves seems to be a pretty awesome noise removal plugin. I haven’t tried it yet but the reviews are excellent. Here’s a video of it completely removing the noise made by a blender! In podcast production this would come in very handy

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Convincing Remote Guests NOT To Use AirPods as Their Microphone

Some remote guests love their AirPods so much, and simultaneously they know so little about audio quality, that they believe (wrongly) that the microphone in their AirPods is a great sounding option to use when they appear as a guest on podcasts. It’s not. That is all. OK, but seriously,

Read More »

Recording Multiple Voices on One Track

Don’t do it. That is all. But seriously, don’t do it. Instead, record each podcast participant on their own track/file so that you have the ability in post-production to clean up, process and optimize each person’s voice separately. Do you really want to hear Joe’s dog barking in the background

Read More »

Repair Assistant in iZotope RX 10

RX 10’s Repair Assistant helps you clean up your raw audio. The handy “Learn” button creates a custom module/processor chain for your audio. It scans your audio and suggests custom amounts of optimization in each of the following modules: De-ess, De-click, De-reverb, De-noise and De-clip. Then you can preview the

Read More »

Neutron 4 from iZotope – A Channel Strip on Steroids

Neutron 4 has so many modules within it including EQ, compressor, gate, exciter, transient shaper, sculptor and unmask. This complete mixing suite costs around $399. Probably the most helpful feature for podcasters, editors and producers is its Mix Assistant which evaluates your source audio and then dials in suggested EQ/compression/etc.

Read More »

Top 3 Reasons Remote Podcast Guests Sound Bad, and How to Avoid All 3!

Remote podcast guests don’t know what they don’t know, so it’s our responsibility to soundcheck them and train them before starting the recording session to ensure we capture good audio from them.  Here are 3 common occurrences which ruin remote guests’ audio quality:  Noisy Background — Fans, air conditioners, noisy

Read More »

Realphones by dSONIQ (Headphone Monitoring Tool)

The Realphones app/plugin makes your headphone audio sound like it’s coming through the expensive monitoring system of a high end recording studio control room. Some folks feel this can be useful with regard to producing good mixes. Others disagree. *NOTE: *In my opinion* apps/plugins like Realphones (or Sonarworks, Waves Abbey

Read More »

RØDE Wireless GO II (Wireless Transmitter and Recorder)

I’ve heard good things about the RODE Wireless GO II. It’s a wireless transmitter AND recorder in one. And it doesn’t require any cables like a clip-on lavalier microphone does. You clip it on to your clothing as close to your mouth as you can manage and it will pick

Read More »

Generally Matching the Amount of Compression on Each Participant

It’s difficult to mix two podcast participants’ voices if one is wildly dynamic and the other is consistent and/or already compressed: The consistent and/or compressed voice will sound up front and intelligible the entire time; loud parts won’t be too loud and lower volume parts won’t be too low. The

Read More »

BOOM (Audio Interface) by Apogee *NEW*

The BOOM is a new audio interface from Apogee. Check out Bandrew’s exhaustive demo and review: Apogee Boom Interface Review / Explained Here’s some info and specs of the unit: 2×2 USB Type-C Audio interface with Built-In Hardware DSP FX BOOM is made for passionate creators that pursue their creativity

Read More »

I’m Bangin’ Out YouTube Videos Now!!! (On Podcast Audio Production)

I’m posting lots of videos these days discussing podcast audio production. Watch the videos here: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw1z9z8ikRabXA4zku88w5A Odysee — https://odysee.com/@PodcastEngineeringSchool:5 Rumble — https://rumble.com/c/c-1329674 Most of the videos are like my Daily Goody blog posts — quick, simple, etc. Please give me feedback — I’m hoping to improve 😉

Read More »

Does Your Podcast Audio Need a Haircut? (Limiting)

By “haircut” I mean Limiting! *See the image above showing a nice straight “haircut”; the loudest peaks have been “tamed”. Limiters basically chop off any loud sharp pointy peaks in audio, and they do so without causing clipping distortion (unless you’re doing extreme limiting). Be careful: If a raw audio

Read More »

Announcement: I’ve Started Making Short Daily Videos

I’m now making short daily videos and you can watch them on: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/c/PodcastEngineeringSchool/ Odysee — https://odysee.com/@PodcastEngineeringSchool:5 Rumble — https://rumble.com/c/c-1329674 *KEEP IN MIND that these videos are similar to my Daily Goody posts in that they are only a tiny little tip, fact or lesson everyday. Please don’t expect any

Read More »

Mistakes I’ve Made Producing Podcasts – PES 239

Today I’m going to discuss some mistakes I’ve made producing podcasts. Microphone: In this episode I’m using my Electro-Voice RE320 microphone plugged into my Neve Portico II channel strip (using compression, EQ and a bit of saturation). The same microphone you see in my daily short videos here. I mention

Read More »

Convincing Remote Guests NOT To Use AirPods as Their Microphone

Some remote guests love their AirPods so much, and simultaneously they know so little about audio quality, that they believe (wrongly) that the microphone in their AirPods is a great sounding option to use when they appear as a guest on podcasts. It’s not. That is all. OK, but seriously,

Read More »

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