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Should you edit out everyone’s breaths in podcast episodes?!?
Personally I never edit out the breaths of podcast participants. Breathing is natural and listeners are used to hearing people’s breaths all the time. And here’s a challenge for you: Go listen to some pop songs — and LISTEN CAREFULLY for the singers breaths. They are there and they are LOUD! And no one ever notices them. Why? Because it’s natural.
Other podcasters and editors like to remove all the breaths from all participants in podcast episodes. The result is a very clean sounding episode, but it may also sound unnatural/weird.
Can you think of any additional benefits of editing out breaths?
And what are your thoughts on this debate?
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I like to reduce the breaths with a Reaper custom action I picked up from Daniel Abendroth. So you keep the breaths in but you just lower them about 10 db so they are not as much in your face. Just have to be careful that compression doesn’t bring them back up too much
Nice!
Totally with Chris. Expertly applied attenuation is the way to go. What makes matters worse is editors who think removal is the way to go often ripple the deletion. This destroys natural pacing thus resulting in audibly blatant unnatural delivery. People will say “this is how it’s done in the audiobook production world.” Right. That’s why most book narrators sound like robots. #humansBreath
-paul.
@produceNewMedia
I reduce breaths, but never eliminate. Music has a lot of other sounds that can distract from the breaths, but I definitely notice them in a podcast. There are some clients that I constantly preach mic technique but no matter what I say, there are just those few that one heed any advice to improve their audio. (this could make a good daily goody)