Table Tapping, Clicking Pens and Squeaky Chairs

Once you start to train your ears for audio production you will begin to hear lots of things that you never heard before.

One of those things is the host and/or guests table tapping! Also clicking pens and squeaky chairs.

In general these noises are not a huge problem with podcasts, but they can distract listeners a lot, and even drive some listeners crazy enough to turn the podcast off and never listen again!

These noises highlight the amateurish production value that most podcasts have. In my opinion, this amateur production quality is why podcasts are not as popular as they could be. Think about it: Jennifer in Alaska clicks play for her first podcast listening experience ever and hears lots of noise, umms, dreadfully slow pace, distracting background noises, way-too-loud intro music, and she thinks to herself, “What the heck IS this???”

The good news is that all these things are not difficult to avoid. Even remote guests can be “trained” to some degree.

Want to receive the Daily Goody in your email, daily or weekly? Subscribe free here.

And please keep in mind, the Daily Goody is only a tiny little tip, fact or lesson everyday. Please don’t expect any of these posts to be long, earth-shattering masterpieces that instantly answer every single question you can think of and completely transform you into a world class podcast engineer. “Little by little, a little becomes a lot.”

.