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October 19, 2023
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The moral of the story: Record good sounding audio. Period.
Recently I saw someone complain that Auphonic isn’t cleaning up their tracks well enough. It turns out his tracks were recorded at an extremely low level which means that the resolution of the recording and the signal to noise ratio were terrible. In addition, there was a lot of background noise and erroneous noises as well.
Reality check: If you take your bad sounding audio and feed it into ANY processor, you can’t expect it to magically fix all your mistakes and spit out a diamond.
If you aren’t able to record decent audio, THAT is the problem you need to fix first.
Decent audio means: High signal to noise ratio, which means the voice is loud and all background noise is very faint or non-existent. Record in quiet environments and get very close to the microphone when speaking. Use good mic technique. Don’t make lots of erroneous distracting noises – BE QUIET when you’re not speaking.
I understand that all this can be difficult for non-engineers. And with regards to to dealing with crappy audio from guests, it’s not easy for anyone, including me. But please, before you blame the tools or your consultant, please make sure you record your audio properly.
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Expecting magic – Because I record several people from UK Government for my podcast, I am in the habit of providing transcripts prior to publishing in order that the guest feels comfortable that I’m not going to distort their words. I ask if there are any elements that they want removed.
So far I’ve had two interesting requests. The first one was asking me if I could change a word. They had said ‘Sponsor” and they wanted to change it to “Supports”.
The second request was that the speaker had used different tenses and some of the grammar spoken wasn’t right. He wanted me to change it all.
I did my best, but Guests need to understand that Audition isn’t a word processor.
Wow!