Stripping Audio From Video Livestreams To Use as Audio Podcast Episodes

In terms of leveraging content into other forms of content this strategy makes total sense, but sometimes the raw audio recording will need more processing before it’s good enough quality to publish as an audio podcast episode.

If, during recording, the recording levels (microphone gain) of various participants is substantially different from each other and you don’t remedy that before publishing, the audio-only listeners experience will not be good or pleasurable because they’ll continually need to adjust their listening volume, aka riding the volume knob. And by the way, after a few minutes of having to ride their own volume level MOST listeners will just turn off the episode and some may never return to listen to the show again.

Another issue can be dynamic range that’s too large, which is when participants speak and/or laugh very loudly at times and then speak and/or trail off super quietly at other times. Good audio production remedies these extremes.

And never forget, you’ll confuse audio-only listeners if you’ve shown and commented on images or video in the original video Livestream, because the visuals are not visible on an audio podcast.

That’s 3 potential issues. Can you think of any more? Comment below!

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