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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
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
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 😉
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
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
TL;DR: If a podcast participant is NOT wearing headphones or earbuds — you MUST use echo cancellation on their audio. If a podcast participant IS wearing headphones or earbuds — you should NOT use echo cancellation on their audio. Full explanation: Echo cancellation is an audio process that can be
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
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,
De-breath plugins intelligently lower the volume of a person’s breath sounds. (iZotope RX Breath Control, Waves DeBreath, etc.) Some podcasters, producers and editors really can’t stand the sound of breaths; some try to lower their volume, others cut them out altogether! It’s a matter of taste; though I will remind
I just came across these newly released VOLT interfaces from Universal Audio and they look very cool. The smaller versions (which a podcaster would use) are priced pretty low, too, considering their quality ($139-$239), which I haven’t personally verified yet but everything UA makes has been exceptional quality. From their
If you’re currently outsourcing your podcast audio production to someone else, and you’d prefer to save that money instead, I’m here to tell you that if you’re willing to learn a bit you can definitely produce your own podcast audio. You don’t have to attend PES or a 4-year program
iZotope just released their latest version of RX. RX 10 has several substantial updates from the previous version. If you have RX 9 you’ll have to decide for yourself if you want top upgrade to 10. I did, but that’s partially because I have to stay on top of these
Who do you know around the age of 18-25 who plays a musical instrument? I’m asking because those folks are literally primed and ready to learn how to produce podcasts for living and then earn $100k+ per year working from home. Yeah, really. Lots of younger folks are struggling to
I appreciate you letting me know in the comments below 😉 or tweet at me @PodcastEngineer Which would you rather see me do on video? Clean up a bad recording Demonstrate a new plugin EQ someone’s voice Compress someone’s voice Discuss my 5 favorite plugins for podcast production Purchase and
If you’re wondering whether you should publish your final episodes in stereo or mono, here are a few ideas to consider: If every element of your episode is mono (voices, effects, music, etc.), _AND_ you haven’t panned _ANY_ of them left or right, then you should publish in mono because
If lipsmacks and mouth noises aren’t avoided in the recording process, then removing them in post can happen in several different ways: For big loud lipsmacks it’s usually better to remove them manually in the editing process. Regarding smaller mouthclicks: If there are only a limited number of mouthclicks, cutting
If you don’t avoid capturing plosives in the recording process, you’ll have to deal with them in post-production. Here are several ways to remove plosives in post: The De-plosive module in iZotope RX A multiband compressor to specifically crush the plosive frequencies which are usually in the range of around
(FYI, see my post on What is Oversampling?) Reaper now offers oversampling on individual plugins and plugin chains! NOTE: Currently many plugins will not be able to handle more extreme (8x or 16x) oversampling, so listen carefully for weirdness when using Reaper’s oversampling features. Here are two good videos explaining
(FYI, here’s a post explaining oversampling and aliasing) Superplugin from DDMF is a plugin that does many things. One handy and specific thing I’d like to highlight here that it does up to 16x oversampling during realtime playback (and 64x oversampling during offline rendering) for plugins that don’t offer oversampling!
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
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
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 😉
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
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
TL;DR: If a podcast participant is NOT wearing headphones or earbuds — you MUST use echo cancellation on their audio. If a podcast participant IS wearing headphones or earbuds — you should NOT use echo cancellation on their audio. Full explanation: Echo cancellation is an audio process that can be
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
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,
De-breath plugins intelligently lower the volume of a person’s breath sounds. (iZotope RX Breath Control, Waves DeBreath, etc.) Some podcasters, producers and editors really can’t stand the sound of breaths; some try to lower their volume, others cut them out altogether! It’s a matter of taste; though I will remind
I just came across these newly released VOLT interfaces from Universal Audio and they look very cool. The smaller versions (which a podcaster would use) are priced pretty low, too, considering their quality ($139-$239), which I haven’t personally verified yet but everything UA makes has been exceptional quality. From their
If you’re currently outsourcing your podcast audio production to someone else, and you’d prefer to save that money instead, I’m here to tell you that if you’re willing to learn a bit you can definitely produce your own podcast audio. You don’t have to attend PES or a 4-year program
iZotope just released their latest version of RX. RX 10 has several substantial updates from the previous version. If you have RX 9 you’ll have to decide for yourself if you want top upgrade to 10. I did, but that’s partially because I have to stay on top of these
Who do you know around the age of 18-25 who plays a musical instrument? I’m asking because those folks are literally primed and ready to learn how to produce podcasts for living and then earn $100k+ per year working from home. Yeah, really. Lots of younger folks are struggling to
I appreciate you letting me know in the comments below 😉 or tweet at me @PodcastEngineer Which would you rather see me do on video? Clean up a bad recording Demonstrate a new plugin EQ someone’s voice Compress someone’s voice Discuss my 5 favorite plugins for podcast production Purchase and
If you’re wondering whether you should publish your final episodes in stereo or mono, here are a few ideas to consider: If every element of your episode is mono (voices, effects, music, etc.), _AND_ you haven’t panned _ANY_ of them left or right, then you should publish in mono because
If lipsmacks and mouth noises aren’t avoided in the recording process, then removing them in post can happen in several different ways: For big loud lipsmacks it’s usually better to remove them manually in the editing process. Regarding smaller mouthclicks: If there are only a limited number of mouthclicks, cutting
If you don’t avoid capturing plosives in the recording process, you’ll have to deal with them in post-production. Here are several ways to remove plosives in post: The De-plosive module in iZotope RX A multiband compressor to specifically crush the plosive frequencies which are usually in the range of around
(FYI, see my post on What is Oversampling?) Reaper now offers oversampling on individual plugins and plugin chains! NOTE: Currently many plugins will not be able to handle more extreme (8x or 16x) oversampling, so listen carefully for weirdness when using Reaper’s oversampling features. Here are two good videos explaining
(FYI, here’s a post explaining oversampling and aliasing) Superplugin from DDMF is a plugin that does many things. One handy and specific thing I’d like to highlight here that it does up to 16x oversampling during realtime playback (and 64x oversampling during offline rendering) for plugins that don’t offer oversampling!
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