Using Auphonic as Your Mastering Step

Lots of podcasters use Auphonic as the final step in their episode production because it does so much, including:

Level the different voices in the episode
Reduce background noise and any hum
Filter low frequencies
Set the final LUFS level
Generate the MP3 file
Tag the MP3 file

You are allowed to process two hours of audio per month for free via their web interface, and their pricing is very economical if you need to process more audio than that.

You can also purchase their software and install it on your own machine and process as much audio as you want 😉

Also, you may want to check out my two interviews with Georg Holzmann, the founder of Auphonic:

Georg Holzmann – PES 022
Auphonic’s New Advanced Features, with Georg Holzmann – PES 108

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Allan Tépper says:

August 8, 2019 at 3:55 am

Auphonic is wonderful, but for those of us who produce & distribute 48 kHz, it should be noted that at present, Auphonic still forcibly downsamples 48 kHz to 44.1 kHz when encoding either AAC (M4A) or MP3. Auphonic currently does this by default and gives us no other choice. Fortunately, Auphonic does respect 48 kHz and leaves it intact when creating WAV or FLAC.

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Bryan Entzminger says:

August 8, 2019 at 6:52 am

Great tool. I don’t use it as the Mastering stage for my main show, but I have a second show – short form, typically recorded on my iPhone while sitting in my car and Auphonic is a great add there. And I use exactly the features you referenced – loudness, high pass, noise reduction, ID3 tagging, and even upload to Libsyn.

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Mike Thomas says:

August 10, 2019 at 3:01 am

I use Auphonic when I get audio sent to me that I don’t know where to start on.

I’ll let it do it’s stuff and then review.

Generally, I don’t use it. Audition and RX7 tends to cover most bases for me, but it’s great to know it’s there if i’m in a hurry.

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Ileane B Smith says:

September 22, 2019 at 1:22 am

I use Auphonic from time to time and I understand more about how to use it after listening to your interviews with Georg Holzmann.

Thanks!

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Using Auphonic as Your Mastering Step