Not Ruining Your Audio in the Last Step of Production

Most podcasters, editors and producers process their final episode audio to make it the proper LUFS loudness level.

But some of these folks, in addition to setting the overall loudness level, also try to do some last minute fancy audio processing like leveling, compression, multiband compression, vocal riding, DE-ESSING?!?!, NOISE REDUCTION??, etc.

My advice: BE CAREFUL when processing audio like this. It is VERY EASY to ruin the sound of the entire episode by trying to use more processing just because other people might use similar processing. GO EASY when processing audio because it is VERY EASY to ruin good sound quality.

As always, use your ears.

You must learn to use your ears, trust your ears, and MAKE SURE that you’re not ruining episode audio just because you want to use 7 cool new plugins, etc.

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