I had read about the importance of recording externally and not relying on a piece of software on the computer alone. If my live interviews had problems with sound quality, my Skype interviews were drastically worse. Lesson Learned: Either use lavalier microphones (which I now have) or put a pop filter/windscreen on two mins and get them really close to you and your guest. Apply too much of this plugin and everyone on the podcast sounds like they’re trapped in metal boxes on Mars. It’s a great plugin and I still use it to this day, but at a certain point you just can’t clean up bad audio. This made the background noise pretty obnoxious.Ī couple of my recordings were so rough in terms of noise that I finally ended up buying a plugin called SoundSoap. In order to make the interview audible, I ran it through Levelator and/or boosted the overall volume post-production. In addition to capturing their voice (kind of faintly), I got a lot of room noise and ambience. Had I known better, I should have held one of the mics and had my guest do the same, or at the very least put them on a table directly in front of them. Recording Liveįor live recordings, I would plug both of my Sony mics into the iRiver using a headphone splitter. This became a big problem for me early on. One downside to using Levelator is it will bring out any background noise in a recording as well. I would then import my dialogue into Audacity, where I would mix it with my intro and outro music. It works on solo dialogue as well, and I got in the habit of using it on most audio. This software uses an algorithm to basically make all the voices on a podcast sound the same volume. I would then use Levelator to balance everything out. iTunes (for converting from WAV to MP3 and adding ID3 tags)įor my own dialogue, I would plug one of the Sony microphones into the iRiver and record as a WAV file, then plug in the iRiver to my laptop and transfer the files over.Audacity (free – for editing audio and mixing episodes together).Levelator (free – for normalizing volume and cleaning up levels).Headphone splitter (for plugging two mics into the iRiver).Griffin iMic 1/8” jack to USB interface ($30). two Sony ECM microphones ($100 each – leftovers from my MiniDisc days).Starting OutĪs I was getting ready to launch in 2006, I spent a lot of time researching what podcasters were using for their shows. All the times I slapped my head in frustration at my missteps. This is all the stuff that I have struggled with behind the scenes over the years. I would make the best product I could and then just present it without and excuses or “aw shucks” commentary. Nothing drives me crazy more than listening to a podcast and hearing the host immediately start apologizing. On both the blog and the podcast, I’ve always taken the stance of making things as good as I can and then putting them out in the world without any apologies.
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