Finishing an Episode vs. Tweaking it Forever

When producing episodes, most of us want to end up with the best possible sounding audio we can manage. To accomplish this, we spend lots of time processing the audio, editing, tweaking the sound, more editing, etc. If we wanted to, we could probably spend 10-20 hours on one episode.

It’s easy to get carried away with tweaking a mix until it’s perfect, or taking another pass through the entire episode for one more round of fine-tune editing, or trying to remove more of the reverb on the guests track, etc.

But each of us needs to find that line where the episode is done and sounds good, and stop ourselves from spending more time than necessary on it.

If you’re aware that you’re spending way too long producing episodes, try to be more aware of those moments when you feel like, “OK, it’s done.”

One more thought: Sometimes I experiment a bit when producing an episode, maybe trying a new plugin or editing technique, and this extra time I spend is chalked up to continued learning, which is critical for professional growth.

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