Category: The Podcast Engineering Show

My guest is Jeremy Enns – Podcast Producer and Storyteller In Chief at Counterweight Creative. And here are the resources Jeremy mentioned including a free mini-course “Grow Your Audience Through Podcast Guesting” — find everything HERE.

We discussed SO MUCH, including:

• KRK V6 monitors
• Sony noise cancelling headphones
• ATR2100
• Shure SM7b – uses a Gorilla tripod to hold the mic when traveling
• Zoom H4n – with preamp gain maxed out
• Macbook Pro
• Pro Tools – And all his subcontractors use Pro Tools
• Quicktime to record local audio (all hosts and guests!)
• Zoom connection for interviews
• Waves plugins
• iZotope suite – noise removal, etc.
• Fabfilter Pro Q-3
• Multiband compressor
• 1176
• The Age Old Question Revisited: Is Content or Audio Quality King?
• What the Hell Is Semiotics and Why Does It Matter for Your Podcast Audio?
• Marketing Ideas: Collaborations with other creators where we promote each other, Cross promotion, Guesting on other podcasts

Thanks for being a great guest, Jeremy!

Comment below.

I overview 9 recent Daily Goody‘s from Oct. 2 – Oct. 21 (see list below). You can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Daily Goody posts that I discussed in this episode:

• Remind Guests To Stay on After the Interview Ends
• Advice for Speaking Into a Lavalier Microphone?
• Zoom PodTrak P8
• Hooke Lav
• Trivia: What Compression Ratio Do I Use on My Channel Strip on the Way “To Tape?”
• EQ then Compress, or Compress then EQ?
• Should You Edit a Boring Speaker Differently Than an Exciting Speaker?
• Metadatics – An Advanced Audio Metadata Editor for Mac OS X
• Podcast Editors: Beware of Negotiating Your Price Down

Other Notes:

• I appreciate you listening and if you ever have questions please reach out!
• The start date for the next PES semester is April 20, 2021
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

Comment below with any questions!

My guest is Michael Garfield – host of Complexity, host of Future Fossils, musical artist, and Social-Media-Strategist-Podcast-Producer at the Santa Fe Institute.

We discussed SO MUCH, including:

• M 88 TG: Dynamic Microphone (Hypercardioid)
• Shure PG 42 USB
• Scarlett 4i4 2nd Gen. with AIR button
• Ableton Live
• “Make It Loud” compressor preset
• iZotope plugins – De-noise, De-reverb, and more.
• Squadcast – for both his shows
• Zoom is a nightmare
• Macbook Pro
• Billie Eilish has used an AT 2020
• Roland cables
• Yeti Nano — for dropping the mic at the guests house. ***Hear it on the Scott Otrtman episode of Complexity. 
• Beats Studio Pro headphones
• Simplecast
• Uploads Stereo MP3’s
• Vocal Synthesis!
• Sub-vocalization
• Grimes and Endel – AI powered lullaby, baby music, depending on time of day, 
• Deep-learning musical synthesis
• Open AI jukebox project
• GPT-3, people are talking to GPT-3???
• Mubert – music generator app
• Reface – swap your face into a movie
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• Conceptual abstraction, Alpha Go can’t apply what it’s learned to other games – it can’t analogize

Thanks Michael for being a great guest!

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I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from Sep.18 – Oct. 1 (see list below). You can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

And, in this episode I switch back and forth between the Heil PR 30 and Heil PR 40 for you to be able to hear the difference, which is subtle. Michelle Levitt and I discuss the difference between these two microphones in the previous episode.

Daily Goody posts that were discussed in this episode:

• Specializing in Producing/Editing Podcasts in a Specific Niche
• NEW Course Announced! “Getting New Clients at Higher Rates”
• What is Dynamic Range Processing?
• Noting Down Your Hardware Settings
• Where To Buy Sound Absorption Blankets and Acoustic Room Treatments?
• iZotope RX 8’s New Loudness Control Module

Other Notes:

• The start date for the next PES semester is January 12, 2021.
• VIDEO: Audio Cleanup and Processing Andrew Gelina’s Voice Using Various Audio Plugins
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/
• Daniel Hager did a STELLAR job revamping the PES website! He was my guest on episode 109, he’s the host of Let’s Talk Re-Touching, and he’s the owner of Hager Media. THANK YOU DANIEL for making the site amazing!
• My other podcast — The Mystic Show (I hope to publish new episodes soon)

New plugins I bought after Black Friday / Cyber Monday:

• EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
• MaxxVolume
• MV2
• CLA-3A Compressor / Limiter
• Abbey Road Chambers
• IR1 Convolution Reverb (we discussed this type of reverb in episode 168 with Pascal Wyse)
• AMEK EQ 200
• Trackspacer by Wavesfactory
• Level Magic by Flux Jünger
• dearVR PRO
• Phil’s Cascade
• Unfiltered Audio TRIAD
• bx_console N channel strip
• Melodyne 5 assistant by Celemony
• Quadravox by Eventide
• Decapitator by Soundtoys

What did you learn in this episode? Let me know by commenting below.

My guest is Michelle Levitt – Creative Marketing Director at Heil Sound and podcast producer. She has performed many roles in podcasting over the years including being CEO of her own podcast studio in Buffalo, NY!

NOTE: Post-production on this episode was done by PES graduate Jesse McCune! Great job, Jesse!

NOTE-2: On next week’s Daily Goody episode, I’ll be demonstrating and comparing the Heil PR30 and PR40!

We discussed SO MUCH, including:

• In-ear monitors: “Ultimate Ears” Capital Studio Reference
• Allen and Heath ZED-10 mixer (uses no EQ, effects or pre-processing when recording)
• iMac computer
• Adobe Audition
• Various Heil microphones including the PR30 and PR40
• Pop filter: BSW Re-pop (fits the PR40 and PR30 nicely)
• When demoing microphones at shows or online she doesn’t use any EQ or compression because she wants people to hear each microphones individual character.
• Check out the presentation Michelle did titled Microphone Technology: Understanding Your Sound
• Her advice to hosts who move around too much demonstrating bad mic technique: Put your chin or nose on the windscreen to always keep close to the mic. Also wear headphones so you can hear your volume change if/when you drift off-mic which will remind you to get back on mic.
• Recently launched PR37 microphone — a dynamic mic for Live sound
• Bob Heil doing Live sound for the Grateful Dead, The Who, early ZZ Top, etc. even though he came from a broadcast background.
• Heil Sound started in the 60s as a music store — Ye Olde Music Shoppe (sp?)
• Sony HD camera and running her local audio through Cam Link 4k thru HDMI cable

Thanks for being a great guest and sharing so much with us, Michelle!

Comments/questions below.

I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from Sep.4 – Sep. 17 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Daily Goody posts that were discussed in this episode:

• iZotope RX 8 Just Released – The Complete Audio Repair Toolkit!
• Zencastr Video Beta Has Launched!
• New in Zoom: High Fidelity Audio Mode
• Sonarworks’ latest ebook, Get the Most from Mixing on Headphones
• The Main Thing Podcast Editors Are Using Descript For:
• Which App Do You Use To Tag Your Final Episode MP3’s? I Use…

Announcements:

• The start date for the next PES semester is January 12, 2021.
• I launched a new smaller course for independent podcast editors and producers —> Getting New Clients at Higher Rates!
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

New equipment and plugins I bought on Black Friday / Cyber Monday:

• Elgato Stream Deck
• AMEK EQ 200
• Trackspacer by Wavesfactory
• Level Magic by Flux Jünger
• dearVR PRO
• Phil’s Cascade
• Unfiltered Audio TRIAD
• bx_console N channel strip
• Melodyne 5 assistant by Celemony
• Quadravox by Eventide
• Decapitator by Soundtoys

What did you learn in this episode? Let me know by commenting below.

Other notes:

• Next week’s episode features Michelle Levitt from Heil Sound, and post-production of that episode will be done by PES graduate Jesse McCune!
• Daniel Hager did a STELLAR job revamping the PES website! He was my guest on episode 109, he’s the host of Let’s Talk Re-Touching, and he’s the owner of Hager Media. THANK YOU DANIEL for making the site amazing!
• My other podcast — The Mystic Show (I hope to publish new episodes soon)

My guest is Mike Rozett, Principal Product Manager at iZotope (overseeing RX, Dialogue Match, and Insight).

Mike and I discussed MANY modules of RX including:

• Breath Control
• De-click (which saved my skin many times with Zencastr years ago. Also there’s a preset called GSM Cell Phone Buzz!)
• De-clip
• De-hum
• De-plosive
• De-reverb (this module has been around longer than Dialogue De-reverb)
• De-rustle
• De-wind
• Dialogue De-reverb (AI powered, iZotope’s most sophisticated algorithm, *Use this module for speech instead of regular de-reverb)
• Guitar De-noise
• Mouth De-click
• Spectral De-noise (Using the Learn function. Also, output noise only to hear exactly what this module is removing)
• Spectral Recovery (AI powered, uses spectral patching which looks for gaps and missing audio, etc.)
• Voice De-noise

Other Pro tips: 

• When you need to do more extreme processing, do multiple passes using less processing strength instead of doing one pass of extreme strength. 
• Start with a preset then tweak to taste.

We also briefly touched on Dialogue Match and Insight.

Thanks for being a great guest and sharing so much with us, Mike!

Comment below with any questions or comments.

I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from Aug. 14 – Sep. 3 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Daily Goody posts that were discussed in this episode:

• Gain Staging with Plugins
• 6-Point Soundcheck List for Internet Guests
• Leaning Back From the Mic When Laughing Loudly
• [VIDEO] How to Use Plugins to Automate and Improve Your Sound Quality
• Non-Destructive Audio Editing
• Mastering Plugins I Like
• True Peace of Mind for the Podcast Editor/Producer/Engineer
• Ground Loop Hum Eliminator
• Harsh Critique of a Particular Episode of a Famous Podcast
• Top 10 Audio Plugins for Podcast Production
• The Big List of Podcast Audio Plugins

Other topics:

• Daniel Hager did a STELLAR job revamping the PES website! He was my guest on episode 109, he’s the host of Let’s Talk Re-Touching, and he’s the owner of Hager Media. THANK YOU DANIEL for making the site amazing!
• An update on my songwriting efforts and plans.
• My other podcast — The Mystic Show (I hope to publish new episodes soon)

Announcements:

• I launched a new smaller course for independent podcast editors and producers —> Getting New Clients at Higher Rates!
• The start date for the next PES semester is January 12, 2021.
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

What did you learn in this episode? Let me know by commenting below.

My guest is Dan LeFebvre, host of Based on a True Story. Follow him on Twitter.

Some of the topics we discussed:

• sE Electronics V7 microphone (See Bandrew’s review video: sE Electronics V7 Dynamic Mic Review / Test)
• RØDE boom arm
• Acoustic treatments in Dan’s office: Moving blankets, carpet, ClearSonic baffles (6’ x 4’ foldable, free-standing panels)
• Zoom R16 Multi-Track Tabletop Recorder
• Squadcast
• iZotope RX 7 — cleanup, de-reverb, etc.
• Mixcraft DAW
• iZotope Nectar – automatic EQ
• Adobe Audition
• Resampling
• Private RSS feed
• WordPress site RSS plugin

Here is Dan describing his post-production workflow:

After an episode is recorded, I edit it on my primary desktop. I have a folder structure that I’ve built over the years with templates for each step of the process. This gives me the Mixcraft project templates I need but also gives me backups of each step so I can always go back to any step later if I need to (and I’ve needed to a few times).

Step 1 is to do generate the WAV files that I’ll use to edit. I do this so I’m not editing the original audio that I recorded (again, backup everything) but also because sometimes I get multiple files that I need to cut together. For example, I recently had SquadCast cut out part-way through so I had to use my local DAW recording for a sentence or so when my guest was still talking and he didn’t realize SquadCast had dropped me. In this first step, the outcome is a single audio track for my guest and myself.

Step 2 is to do the core of the editing. This starts by pulling each track as its own WAV into iZotope RX to do any cleanup necessary. If I’m using SquadCast, I’ll also resample the 44100 kHz WAV file from there to 48000 kHz to better conform to the rest of the audio that I record at 48000 (since I do some video with my podcast). Then, back in Mixcraft, it’s to the most time consuming process all podcast editors are familiar with…going through and removing the stutters, excessive “uhs” and “ums” and so on.

Step 3 is to write and record my intro & outro. I do this after editing the episode primarily because I do a “two truths and a lie” segment that requires pulling info from the episode, so it’s easier for me to do that after I’ve edited it and it’s still fresh in my mind.

Step 4 is to edit the intro & outro onto the bulk of the episode.

Step 5 is to add the simple intro music, my FX chains and then export a single WAV file for each track. Typically this is one WAV file for me, one for my guest and one for the music track.

Step 6 is to pull those WAV files into a multitrack session in Audition where I do a match loudness. I was excited to see RX 8 has a loudness control module…but I’m not sure it’s worth the cost of the upgrade yet just for that hah! So, I do that in Audition. Coming out of Audition, I mix it all down to a single WAV file.

Step 7 is to take that WAV file and resample it from the 48000 kHz that I record in (because I do some video for my podcast) to 44100 kHz to export the final MP3 at 96kbps.

Last, but not least, I have a private RSS feed that I set up to give the episode a listen. Every so often some family members who have access to the RSS feed will help out and give it a listen and let me know if they notice any mistakes. If so, I go back to whatever step is needed to fix it.

Thanks for being a great guest and sharing so much with us, Dan!

Comment below with any questions or comments.

I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from July 31 – Aug. 13 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Daily Goody posts that were discussed in this episode:

• Staying Involved in Podcasting Groups and Communities
• What Are Your Favorite Plugins for Podcast Production?
• Microphone Level vs. Line Level
• Zoom ZDM-1 Dynamic Microphone
• Temporary Sound Treatment to Muffle Loud People Next Door
• Top 10 Audio Plugins for Podcast Production
• Podcast Audio Plugins – The Big List

At the end I discuss “What’s been going on in my world”:

• Daniel Hager did a STELLAR job revamping the PES website! He was my guest on episode 109, he’s the host of Let’s Talk Re-Touching, and he’s the owner of Hager Media. THANK YOU DANIEL for making the site amazing!
• Episode 200 was epic – thanks to everyone who sent in audio!
• An update on my songwriting efforts and plans.
• Watching Twitch livestreamers, mostly chess players and music artists. By the way, here’s the Twitch channel for PES.
• My other podcast — The Mystic Show (I hope to publish new episodes soon)

Announcements:

• I launched a new smaller course for independent podcast editors and producers —> Getting New Clients at Higher Rates!
• The start date for the next PES semester is January 12, 2021.
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

What did you learn in this episode? Let me know by commenting below.

My guest is Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, cohost of The Jason & Scot Show (an e-commerce podcast). Find him on Twitter @retailgeek

Overview of Jason’s production workflow:

• RX 7 Standard (if noise reduction is required)
• Adobe Audition
• Loudness Normalization -23 LUFs
• Scheps omni-channel w/ settings from Chris Curran
• Fabfilter plugins, Accusonus ERA 4 (if needed / rarely used)
• Exported ISO’s to Auphonic Multitrack
• Auphonic mixes in intro/outro music, levels the episode, adds metadata, generates MP3, uploads to libsyn, (and to Google translate and Dropbox)
• Show notes in WordPress (pasted into Libsyn for publishing)

Jason’s equipment:

• Home Studio: MKH-416 —> Rolls Mic Mute —> MixPre-6 Gen 2 (recorder and interface) —> MacBook Pro 15
• Solo Travel kit: Beyerdynamic M201TG —> Fethead —> Centrance Mic Port 2
• Group Location: SM58’s —> MixPre-6 Gen 2

Other stuff we discussed:

• RE20 w/Cloudlifter
• O.C. White boom arm mounted to the wall
• Hook Studios: OCTO-842S pop filter and THS-MDM Microphone Decoupler
• Mogami cables
• Rolls Mic Switch
• Nightlights from Zazzle!!! 
• X-keys, widgets with various numbers of keys
• Microsoft Teams
• Crossgating using Auphonic
• Sends audio to be transcribed
• Time offset – conversation comes in X seconds before the intro piece ends
• Duplicate Post plugin for WordPress

Thanks for being a great guest and sharing so much with us, Jason!

Comment below with any questions or comments.

This is a celebration episode for reaching 200 episodes!

We had lots of fun including:

• Demonstrating various audio effects including flanging, phasing, chorus, reverb and delay.
• Enjoying audio clips sent in by the following listeners congratulating/roasting with the WORST sounding audio they could muster! (for fun, of course): Andy Wang, Brad Hargis, Bryan Entzminger, David DeVilbiss, Ed Sullivan, Jeni Wren, Martin Dürr, Ralph M. Rivera and Thomas Cumings. And bonus horrible audio of me congratulating/”trolling” Bandrew Scott (Podcastage) when he reached 200k subscribers on YouTube this past August.
• A raw 4-minute uninterrupted clip of Barry chatting with me in my podcast studio in New Jersey in 2013!!! So many fans have been waiting to hear some raw Barry audio 😉
• A song you’ve never heard from the band Tourbook, whose songs I use for my regular intro and outro music. This song is called Years.

Big Thanks to each and every listener for being a part of 200 fun episodes!

I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from July 17 – July 30 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Be sure to check out the Focusrite Scarlett series of audio interfaces, the world’s best-selling USB interface range with over 3 million units sold worldwide. Choose from 6 different interfaces with 1, 2, 4, or 8 microphone inputs. Works with the recording software you’re already using and works with any type of XLR microphone. New unique Air feature adds brightness and presence to your voice. Thanks to Focusrite for sponsoring this episode!

Daily Goody posts that were discussed in this episode:

• Zoom H8 (8-input Handy Recorder)
• Soundproofing a Window to Reduce Incoming Noise
• Logic Pro – a Popular DAW for Mac Only
• Recording a “Guide” Track When Recording Episodes
• Crossgate Feature in Auphonic Multitrack
• Reaper’s Dynamic Split Function Can Strip Silence

Announcements:

• I launched a new smaller course for independent podcast editors and producers —> Getting New Clients at Higher Rates!
• The start date for the next PES semester is January 12, 2021.
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

What did you learn in this episode? Let me know by commenting below.

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We discussed podcast audio production in-depth including these topics:

• AKG C414 microphone
• Bunch of AT835b mics
• SM57/58’s of course
• AKG lavalier  mic
• Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6
• Zoom H4n
• An old Allen & Heath 16 channel mixer for music
• MacBook Pro
• Pair of Yamaha HS8s monitors
• ATR2100 mic
• Squadcast
• Marantz PMD recorder
• ProTools
• 3rd party Plugins:
  • Fabfilter: Compressor, EQ
  • Waves: Vocal Rider, L3 for mastering
  • iZotope RX7: De-noise, De-reverb, De-plosive
• Generates MP3 mixes straight out of ProTools, Stereo 128kbps
• Transistor for media hosting
• Descript – he loves it
• Getting back into producing music: SH01A synthesizer, Drum machine, modular synthesis, JAMUARY!!!

Please comment below with any questions or comments.

And THANKS for being a great guest, Harry!

I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from July 3 – July 16 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Here are the Daily Goody posts that were discussed in this episode:

• Listen to Your Own Podcast in All These Places Because…
• I WANT THIS MIC SO BAD! AEA KU5A Hypercardioid Ribbon Microphone
• Studio Monitor Placement
• El Rey, Compressor Plugin
• Forgetting to Press Record
• How to Use a Multiband Compressor to Remove Plosives
• Crossfading When Editing Audio
• Podcast Producers Being Credited at the End of Their Clients’ Episodes
• Podcast Gym website by Andy Wang, Host of Inspired Money
• Listen Very Carefully to Two of Your Favorite Songs and…

Announcements:

• I launched a new smaller course for independent podcast editors and producers!: Getting New Clients at Higher Rates! The pre-launch pricing is incredible and never to be seen again. * Launching October 1 * PRE-ORDER NOW
• The start date for the next PES semester is January 12, 2021.
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

What did you learn in this episode?

Comment below 😉

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My guest is Jeni Wren Stottrup! She is a Podcast Producer and Coach, and Owner of Gritty Birds Podcasting. Her expertise includes multimedia journalism, audio production, content production, and she’s a vocalist and songwriter.

We discussed podcast audio production in depth, including:

• Scoring and sound design
• Tape Sync – bring her equipment to record someone at their location
• Shure Beta 87a
• RME Babyface Pro
• Macbook Pro, 1 TB SSD
• Adobe Audition
• Hindenburg Journalist Pro
• iZotope RX 7
• Shure SM7b
• Cloudlifter
• Audio Technica BP40
• Shure MV88+
• Condenser attached to iPhone
• Compression
• De-reverb
• Editing in Hindenburg: Umms, long pauses, crossfading

Comment below with any questions or comments.

And THANKS for being a great guest, Jeni!

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I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from June 19 – July 2 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Here are the Daily Goody posts that we discussed in this episode:

• BEWARE of This Nonsensical Squadcast “Feature” Every Time a Participant Drops off a Session
• Keyboard Typing “Thumps” Coming Through the Mic
• Riverside.fm Records Audio and Video Locally for Each Participant
• Avoid Constantly Saying “Mm-Hmm” or “Uh-Huh”
• Finishing a Mix the Next Day If Your Ears Are Getting Too Fatigued
• Do You Leave Any Blank Space at the End of Episodes?
• Waves WLM Plus Loudness Meter
• NPR’s Signature Sound
• [VIDEO] Podcast Episode Post-Production: Dan Hughley of Focusrite on The Podcast Engineering Show Ep.186

Announcements:

• The start date for the next PES semester is September 15, 2020 and the next semester after that starts in January 2021.
• If you’d like to share this show with any of your podcaster friends, feel free to send them a message saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/

What did you learn in this episode?

Comment below 😉

My guest is Drew DeVore – podcast host, producer and audio engineer for Jupiter Broadcasting. Here are the podcasts he hosts: Linux Headlines, Linux Unplugged, Self Hosted, and Jupiter Extras.

We discussed a ton including:

• Interfaces/Mixers: Behringer X32, Focusrite Scarlett (couple different models and generations), Zoom H5, U22, Mackie Onyx Artist interface
• Records dry, adds effects later
• Mics: RE20, RE320 (didn’t prefer it), MXL990, Sennheiser MD46
• All recording into Linux-based computers. Less audio proficient hosts use Audacity, more proficient (myself, studio, couple of other hosts) use Reaper.
• Headphones: Typically records with AT M40x closed back, mixes with ATH-AD700.
• Restores audio using a mix of software depending on what’s wrong, and usually contains a mix of iZotope RX7 Advanced and Acon Digital products
• iZotope RX7 Advanced
• Reaper
• Mixing and effects done “in the box” while editing
• Host Track Mixing – Compression, EQ, De-ess
• Master Bus Mixing – Glue compression, Limiting
• Mastering – FabFilter Pro-Q3, Pro-MB, Saturn 2, and Pro-L2
• iZotope Ozone 9
• Dynamic EQ in Fabfilter Pro-Q 3
• ALL Fabfilter plugins including Pro-MB, Saturn and the rest!
• Master’s episodes in a new session
• Automation system for publishing: Render to FLAC, Upload FLAC to castablasta which generates various copies of it, MP3 goes to Fireside, Version goes to Youtube.

Comment below with any questions or comments.

And THANKS for being a great guest, Drew!

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I overview recent Daily Goody‘s from June 5 – June 18 (see list below). Don’t forget you can sign up to receive Daily Goody’s in your email every day or a weekly roundup. Sign up here.

Here are the Daily Goody posts that we discussed in this episode:

• De-breath Plugins
• How Much Blank Space Do You Leave at the Beginning of Episodes?
• How to Set Your Per-Episode Pricing to Ensure That You Reach Your Annual Income Goal?
• Don’t Blindly Emulate Everything That Popular Podcasts Do
• Zencastr’s New Video Beta Platform – Join the Waitlist
• Audio Trivia Friday – June 12, 2020
• What is a Decibel?
• Loupedeck CT and Loupedeck+ Controllers
• One Viable Way to Get New Potential Clients Into Your Local Physical Podcast Studio

Announcements:

• The start date for the next PES is September 15, 2020.
• Due to my severe lack of marketing skills, please consider sharing this episode with any podcasters you know. You could send them a note saying, “Btw, here’s a show about podcast audio production you may find helpful” with this link: https://podcastengineeringschool.com/subscribe/
• You are welcome to support my content creation if you so desire.

What did you learn in this episode? Let me know by commenting below.

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