Chris’s Goody Bag – PES 162

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

• Weak WiFi Signal – Avoid It!
• Checking Your Mixes on Various Monitors
• Double-Umms!
• PES Update – 2019 Fall Semester
• Using EQ When Mastering Episodes
• Pricing Your Podcast Production Services
• Why Did I Create Podcast Engineering School?
• Headphone-Only Days
• Neumann KH 120 A (Active Studio Monitors)
• What Does Your Audio Equipment Setup Look Like?
• Should You Update Your Computer to a Newly Released Operating System?
• When Guests Connect Using a Windows PC or Surface
• A Guest Using Two Microphones in a Recording Studio

Notes on my production for this episode:

Recording: I used a Heil PR30 microphone and my mouth was about 1-2″ from the foam windscreen. The mic was plugged directly into a Sound Devices MixPre-6 and recorded using Audio Hijack.

Post-Production: First I had to de-plosive the raw recording because it had huge plosives on it due to my close proximity, even though I had a windscreen on the mic. Then for mixing I mostly used the Celestial plugin from Acustica (which is Free until February 14, 2020) as well as a bit of Fabfilter Pro-G gate and Vocal Rider from Waves.

My thoughts on the final sound of my voice: Please note I limited myself to the Celestial plugin in this episode (except for the couple others listed above) so I could try it out in full. I like the Celestial plugin a lot but I would have liked to do more precise EQ’ing on my voice, and I would have liked to use its compressor a bit more gently and in conjunction with an additional compressor plugin. Also, the tone of my voice through the PR30 is not the best I’ve ever heard.

Announcement: The start date for the next PES will be January 14, 2020

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