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If you want professional sounding audio, the answer is Yes. But without compression you can still sound good by using good microphone technique. How/where to use compression when livestreaming: Have you ever used compression when Livestreaming? Comment below with your juicy details 😉
Yes, 24-bit audio recordings contain 256 times more detail and resolution (!!!) than 16-bit audio. 24-bit audio can record 16,777,216 discreet values for loudness levels (or a dynamic range of 144 dB), versus 16-bit audio which can represent 65,536 discrete values for the loudness levels (or a dynamic range of
Do you edit podcasts while standing up or sitting down? I always produce audio while sitting down, but someday I want to buy a standing desk so I can get up off my ***. HA! Comment below with your posture preferences!
Be sure to use stereo versions of plugins on stereo tracks IF you want to hear the stereo track in stereo. Because when you use a mono plugin on a stereo track, you will only hear one side of the stereo track (usually the left, I believe).
Without sacrificing the quality of your edits, here are 6 ways you can speed up significantly and edit podcast audio MUCH faster: Use keyboard shortcuts for your most used commands. Listen to and verify every edit immediately after making it so when you get to the end of the file
Most audio plugins go on sale from time to time, so the way to get the best deals on awesome plugins is to monitor their prices and wait until they go on sale. The easiest way to monitor prices is to get on the email lists of all the plugin
Microphone technique is art of managing your proximity to a microphone. Bad microphone technique results in a sound and audio signal level that is: Wildly dynamic (oscillating between sometimes extremely loud and sometimes extremely quiet) Very unpleasant for listeners to experience (oscillating between painfully loud and literally inaudible) Prone to
In addition to being one of the best sounding EQ plugins available, and in addition to probably being the most feature-rich EQ plugin available, the Fabfilter Pro-Q 3‘s user interface experience is arguably the best around due to how visual, intuitive and helpful it is to the user. Many podcast
Starting at 20:47 in episode 100 I demonstrate what various frequency ranges sound like and also discuss the audio “adjectives” associated with each range. You’ll hear what these audio adjectives actually sound like: Big, Small, Boomy, Muddy, Boxy, Hollow, Midrangy, Biting, Presence, Clarity, Brightness, “Air,” and that telephone sound. Let
The human voice is essentially a mid-range instrument, which means that most of its information resides in the mid-range of the frequency spectrum. Humans can hear frequencies between around 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, and the human voice does contain information along this entire spectrum, but the vast majority of
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
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
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.
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
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
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
There are many apps that can be used to loudness normalize an audio file to a specific LUFS loudness level. Many podcasters and producers use this process to equalize the volume level of each participant in podcast episodes. In most cases this works well; all the voices set to the
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
If you want professional sounding audio, the answer is Yes. But without compression you can still sound good by using good microphone technique. How/where to use compression when livestreaming: Have you ever used compression when Livestreaming? Comment below with your juicy details 😉
Yes, 24-bit audio recordings contain 256 times more detail and resolution (!!!) than 16-bit audio. 24-bit audio can record 16,777,216 discreet values for loudness levels (or a dynamic range of 144 dB), versus 16-bit audio which can represent 65,536 discrete values for the loudness levels (or a dynamic range of
Do you edit podcasts while standing up or sitting down? I always produce audio while sitting down, but someday I want to buy a standing desk so I can get up off my ***. HA! Comment below with your posture preferences!
Be sure to use stereo versions of plugins on stereo tracks IF you want to hear the stereo track in stereo. Because when you use a mono plugin on a stereo track, you will only hear one side of the stereo track (usually the left, I believe).
Without sacrificing the quality of your edits, here are 6 ways you can speed up significantly and edit podcast audio MUCH faster: Use keyboard shortcuts for your most used commands. Listen to and verify every edit immediately after making it so when you get to the end of the file
Most audio plugins go on sale from time to time, so the way to get the best deals on awesome plugins is to monitor their prices and wait until they go on sale. The easiest way to monitor prices is to get on the email lists of all the plugin
Microphone technique is art of managing your proximity to a microphone. Bad microphone technique results in a sound and audio signal level that is: Wildly dynamic (oscillating between sometimes extremely loud and sometimes extremely quiet) Very unpleasant for listeners to experience (oscillating between painfully loud and literally inaudible) Prone to
In addition to being one of the best sounding EQ plugins available, and in addition to probably being the most feature-rich EQ plugin available, the Fabfilter Pro-Q 3‘s user interface experience is arguably the best around due to how visual, intuitive and helpful it is to the user. Many podcast
Starting at 20:47 in episode 100 I demonstrate what various frequency ranges sound like and also discuss the audio “adjectives” associated with each range. You’ll hear what these audio adjectives actually sound like: Big, Small, Boomy, Muddy, Boxy, Hollow, Midrangy, Biting, Presence, Clarity, Brightness, “Air,” and that telephone sound. Let
The human voice is essentially a mid-range instrument, which means that most of its information resides in the mid-range of the frequency spectrum. Humans can hear frequencies between around 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, and the human voice does contain information along this entire spectrum, but the vast majority of
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
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
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.
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
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
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
There are many apps that can be used to loudness normalize an audio file to a specific LUFS loudness level. Many podcasters and producers use this process to equalize the volume level of each participant in podcast episodes. In most cases this works well; all the voices set to the
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
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