Recap of My Q&A Session at Podcast Movement 2016 – PES 019

My pal from New Jersey, Ralph M. Rivera, hangs with me in this session. A bit of fun was had by all. He is the cofounder of Podcaster’s Toolbox, host of the Web.Search.Social podcast, and a wonderful marketing guru. He and his beautiful wife, Carol Lynn, had a booth at Podcast Movement encouraging folks to get on the “Beta train” for Podcaster’s Toolbox. You can too.

We discuss many of the questions I got from folks in my Q&A session on audio engineering at Podcast Movement 2016. Listen for all the answers and tips!

Here are some of my notes:

• What to do when you compress an already-kind-of-noisy signal and the noise becomes really loud? (try smashing it on top using high threshold with high ratio!)
• Multitrack software programs are just tools, and for podcasting it’s more important HOW you use the tool than having the most expensive, feature-rich program.
• Marc Johanssen’s Podcast Gear Group on Facebook
• Video tutorials: Dave Jackson, Carey Green,
• Fixing things…..The golden rule of audio engineering: Record it right the first time!
• How to process audio that has a lot of room reverb on it, and get rid of the reverb?
• What is EQ exactly? Frequencies, adjusting to taste…
• Gating, expanding
• Speaking directly into the mic or speaking on an angle past the mic?
• MP3 quality of final episodes. (128kbps stereo, 64kbps mono)
• Best way to make sure 3 people in the same room sound good and don’t bleed too much? (1. Everyone very close to their mic, 2. Mic’s pointed away from each other (120 degrees is optimum for 3 mic’s), Multitrack Auphonic’s crossgate feature)
• One attendee mentioned Levelator, and another attendee said it’s still around but is not being updated so it’s slowly dying kinda.
• LUFS (origin, what does it mean, levels of music, tv commercials, etc)

Listen to this entire session for all the goods, including AFTER the music fades — Ralph and I briefly discuss our wild plans for our shared double booth at Podcast Movement 2017 in Anaheim, California!

Thanks for hanging with me, Ralph!