Category: Daily Goody

If you’re not recording in a professional recording studio, inevitably there will be some amount of background noise when recording. The air conditioner, the road outside your window, your family in the next room, your computer’s fan, your dog, your phone ringing and buzzing, …the list goes on and on.

It’s best to reduce or eliminate, in advance, the amount of background noise that is present in your recording space. This will ensure that your microphone picks up as little noise as possible so your recording will be as “clean” as possible.

The saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is exactly right when it comes to audio recording 😉

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Most podcast hosts interview their guests remotely using a VoIP service like Zencastr, Squadcast, Ringr, or Skype.

The guests internet connection speed is one factor that will affect the flow of the conversation as well as the quality of the guests audio.

A couple tips:

Although rare these days, it is best for the guests computer to be connected to the internet via a hardwired connection – an ethernet cable. Remember those?!

If the guest must connect via WiFi (which almost everyone does these days) it’s best of they are connected via a strong WiFi signal, which usually means they should be close to their WiFi router.

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Also known as:

• Mixing board
• Mixing console
• Audio mixer
• Audio console
• Mixing desk
• Sound mixer
• Sound board
• or simply as board or mixer

Basically a mixer is a piece of hardware or software that:

1. Accepts audio inputs from various different sources
2. Allows the audio to be “mixed” together, manipulated and routed in many varied and customizable ways
3. Sends audio out in many varied and customizable ways

There are many different types and brands of mixers with varying capabilities, features and qualities.

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Your ears are the most important part of you when it comes to podcast audio production. And it is possible to develop your critical listening skills so that you can identify audio qualities and problems quickly and accurately. Of course correctly identifying a problem is necessary in order to correctly fix it. By the way, there are many types of problems that can occur when producing audio, and learning how to handle them all will make you a bulletproof engineer 😉

It all comes down to focused practice, really.

Just by living life you’ve already had a lot of experience hearing different audio in different places, etc. Now, to develop deeper perception of frequencies, amplitudes and characteristics you just have to start listening more intently.

For starters, here’s one good exercise you can do:

Listen to one of your favorite songs on computer speakers, then listen to the same song on earbuds, and then through the car stereo, etc. *Notice the difference in sound when listening in these different places.

What do you hear?

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Hi!

Every day I’ll be publishing one very short post each day containing a tip, fact or lesson to enhance your knowledge of podcast audio production. I’m calling it your “Daily Goody” because each post will be a tasty morsel for your podcast production brain. (Zero calories!)

Over time you will receive quite an education.

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Or here’s the link you can visit everyday to see the new post: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/daily-goody/

And please keep in mind, the Daily Goody is only a tiny little tip, fact or lesson everyday. Please don’t expect any of these posts to be long, earth-shattering masterpieces that instantly answer every single question you can think of and completely transform you into a world class podcast engineer.

“Little by little, a little becomes a lot.”

As always, if you have any questions please contact me directly here.

Sound great!
Chris Curran

PS– if you haven’t heard my Podcast Engineering Show, you may want to check it out, too 😉